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3:50 PM ET, August 29, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Yahoo News fires David Chalian  —  TAMPA, Fla. — Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac …
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Yahoo! News Washington Bureau Chief: Romneys ‘Happy To Have A Party When Black People Drown’  —  In an ABC News/Yahoo! online broadcast of the Republican National Convention, Yahoo! News' Washington bureau chief David Chalian was captured on tape joking to colleagues that Republican presidential …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
CNN's Exquisitely Awkward Spot  —  You've probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.”  Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.
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The Huffington Post:
Republican Attendees Thrown Out After Racist Attack On CNN Worker  —  Two attendees at the Republican National Convention were thrown out of the convention center in Tampa on Tuesday after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “this is how we feed the animals.”
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: Amazon NY to sell its ebooks through B&N, Kobo, other retailers  —  Amazon's New York-based book publishing imprint, which is headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Kobo to Replace Google E-Books for Independent Booksellers  —  Kobo has struck a deal to sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent U.S. booksellers, giving the Toronto firm a new chance to establish a foothold in the American digital books market.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson ‘loading a gun’ against press industry, warns Indy editor  —  The editor of the Independent has said he fears that Lord Justice Leveson is “loading a gun” against the industry as he prepares his final report and recommendations following his inquiry into press culture and ethics.
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Severin Carrell / Guardian:
Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor
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Press Association:
Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails
Discussion: @davidallengreen
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA  —  Mark Mazzetti reports on national security for The New York Times.  He sent the text of a Maureen Dowd column that hadn't yet been published to CIA spokesperson Marie Harf, Dylan Byers reported Tuesday morning. …
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Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal:
Pre-Publication Disclosure of Dowd Column: A Breach of Two Boundaries
Discussion: Judicial Watch and Pressing Issues
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:   What Mark Mazzetti's Maureen Dowd CIA tipoff means for the New York Times
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
During Night One Of RNC, Fox News Draws More Viewers Than Any Other Network  —  On night one of the Republican National Convention, Fox News Channel was the clear ratings winner on TV, drawing substantially more viewers than any other TV network, including NBC, CBS and ABC.  NBC was tops in the key adults 25-54 demo.
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Wall Street Journal wants its reporters filing microvideo updates for its new WorldStream  —  The Wall Street Journal has been busy expanding its video offerings and experimenting with dedicated news streams in recent months.  Today, the natural merger of the two debuts: a stream of reporter-generated videos called WorldStream.
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists
Discussion: The FJP
Jim Romenesko:
National Writers Union blasts Huffington Post for not paying Oasis masseuses  —  The National Writers Union says the Huffington Post has reached “new heights of shamelessness” by not paying masseuses for their work at HuffPo's Convention 2012 Oasis relaxation stations.
Klint Finley / TechCrunch:
Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments  —  News publishers are becoming tech companies, right down to the Google Labs style experimental sites: The New York Times Company Research & Development Lab, The Globe Lab, WapPo Labs...
Discussion: Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
Dan Conover / Xark:
Why Fact Checkers fail  —  My interest in fact-checking grew out of years of running political coverage in the Carolinas, in places where facts were often far less important than the nameless angers that animate our Southern culture.  Doing that job is, in fact, a political act, though not a partisan one.
Jim Romenesko:
Peggy Noonan has a new blog on WSJ.com  —  The Wall Street Journal says Peggy Noonan will write daily on political, cultural and personal subjects on her blog — simply called “Peggy Noonan's Blog” — and continue to do her weekly “Declarations” column.  The Journal's release …
 
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