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4:00 PM ET, August 30, 2012

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Falsehoods  —  Paul Ryan's vice presidential acceptance speech ran into a lot of trouble with fact-checkers and journalists.  —  It seemed like some reporters' heads were going to explode on Twitter as Ryan spoke.  For instance, he blasted President Obama for not doing …
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James Bennet / The Atlantic Online:
'We're Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers'
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Bit by Bit It Takes Shape: Media Evolution for the ‘Post-Truth’ Age
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Tries Cranking Up the Money Machine: More Precise Targeting = More Ad Dollars  —  Someone smart who doesn't work at Twitter tells me that the company expects to do $350 million in revenue this year.  —  Here's one of the ways they could get there: A new slug of ad dollars, generated by an overhaul of its ad platform.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video  —  Tablet content aggregators like Flipboard and Zite have found favor by re-imagining modern web text as linear pages of ye olde magazines.  But can the same paradigm work for other online content?  —  Flipboard on Wednesday launched …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Simon Fox named Trinity Mirror chief executive  —  Former HMV boss to take over from Sly Bailey, who stepped down in June  —  Trinity Mirror has appointed outgoing HMV chief Simon Fox as its new chief executive.  —  The company's seven-strong board met on Thursday afternoon to make a final decision …
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Guggenheim Partners Nearing Deal to Buy Dick Clark Productions (Exclusive)  —  The private-equity firm has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire the storied producer of the Golden Globe Awards.  —  Guggenheim Partners has entered final negotiations to acquire Dick Clark Productions …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVWeek.com
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
With Reddit chat, Obama goes around press directly to voters  —  How do you get President Obama to do a live Q&A with Reddit users?  Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian told Peter Kafka, “There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and at the campaign HQ.”
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As Hurricane Isaac hits New Orleans, Times-Picayune prints in Alabama  —  Any day a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, the Times-Picayune's front page is a must-peek.  But Thursday's front page is missing from the Newseum's “Today's Front Pages” feature.  —  Did the presses stop early?
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Twin threats peril preprint newspaper ads  —  Preprint advertising, a long-reliable source of business that represents a quarter of the remaining revenue for the struggling newspaper industry, is at greater risk than ever before, owing to a perfect storm of challenges.
Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:
News Corp doesn't have much to show for its boldness  —  Relative to its peers in old media, News Corp. made some aggressive moves in technology.  Few have paid off.  —  FORTUNE — Top executives working in the turbulent arena of digital media are nomadic — or they quickly learn to be.
Discussion: Guardian
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
If Content Is King, Multiscreen Is The Queen, Says New Google Study  —  New research out from Google, working with market analysts Ipsos and Sterling Brands, puts some hard numbers behind the often-noticed trend of how people in the U.S. are using a combination of phones, tablets, computer and TVs to consume digital content.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Is This Thing On?  Yahoo Firing Proves the Perils of Feeding Many Platforms  —  David Chalian, the Washington bureau chief of Yahoo News, was fired in record time on Wednesday after he was overheard on a hot mic making a remark about Mitt Romney and his wife not caring about the African-American victims of Hurricane Isaac.
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Camerawoman On Harassment At RNC: 'I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all'  —  Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman at the center of a controversy at the RNC is speaking out.  On Tuesday, Carroll was on the job in the Tampa Bay Times Forum when two attendeeds threw nuts at her and said …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: former News of the World head of legal arrested  —  Tom Crone understood to have been arrested by by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting  —  Phone hacking: detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting have arrested a 60-year-old man.  Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian
 
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