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3:05 AM ET, August 27, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Barry Diller Shows Up Late, Gets What He Wants: IAC to Buy About.com From New York Times for $300 Million  —  The New York Times, which was set to sell its About.com unit to Answers.com, now looks ready to sell it to Barry Diller instead.  —  People familiar with the transaction say the Times …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT's Abramson rebuts Brisbane charge  —  The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane.  —  In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers “share a kind of political …
Discussion: @buzzfeedben and @jayrosen_nyu
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David Carr / New York Times:
Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows  —  If the political conventions were managed like a typical television show that was losing audience, think of the meetings that would be held during the run-up.  —  TV Boss: “The cast is uninspired, the plots are unbearably boring …
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
CNN Looks for a Boost From HBO Shows  —  In a bit of corporate synergy, Time Warner is planning to dip into one of its strongest cable channels, HBO, to help revive the fortunes of one of its weakest, CNN.  —  As part of Time Warner's attempt to reinvigorate its 24-hour cable news channel …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
No, metered-content walls won't save journalism  —  Paywalls of all kinds have been popping up at newspapers across North America like mushrooms after a rainstorm, thanks in large part to the adoption of a metered paywall at the New York Times last year.  The latest to join the cavalcade …
The Independent:
Angry Murdoch used Harry photos to defy Leveson  —  An angry Rupert Murdoch ordered The Sun to publish pictures of a naked Prince Harry against the wishes of the Royal Family because he wanted to send a warning shot to Lord Justice Leveson, sources said yesterday.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Two moves that tell you everything you need to know about Twitter's future  —  We've been writing a lot lately about the transformation that Twitter is going through — one that has seen it shift from being a kind of real-time information utility to being a global media entity …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves  —  TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand.  He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.
Discussion: bookforum.com and The Big Picture
Aram Bakshian Jr / The National Interest:
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Coming in the side door: The value of homepages is shifting from traffic-driver to brand  —  Moving on from newspapers, journalism industry soothsayers are now predicting the decline of something much younger: the homepage.  —  As with newspapers — which haven't so much disappeared …
Mike Hoyt / CJR:
Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin  —  As transitions go, it was pretty jagged, a classic of the “moving right along” category.  Answering a question about abortion in the case of rape, Todd Akin, the 65-year Missouri congressman and current candidate for the US Senate, says:
Discussion: New Yorker
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Photo Alert: Instagram Goes Mainstream as the AP Plans Convention Coverage via iPhones  —  The AP's staff photographers covering the upcoming political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte will not just be shooting for the wire service with their high-end DSLR cameras, they will shoot separate …
 
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