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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'
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CJR, New York Times, EdCone.com, New York Magazine and Xark
Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post:
Fox News' Sally Kohn: Paul Ryan's RNC Speech ‘Was Attempt To Set World Record For Blatant Lies’
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Fox News, @moorehn and @antderosa
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Bit by Bit It Takes Shape: Media Evolution for the ‘Post-Truth’ Age
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CNN, Poynter, The Daily Dish, The Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
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.
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Forbes, Twitter Advertising, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, Mashable! and CNBC
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 …
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eMedia Vitals, Folio, MediaPost, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget and Journalism.co.uk
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 …
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Media Week, paidContent, Telegraph and Sky News
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 …
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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.”
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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?
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mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post and Yahoo! News
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.
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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.
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Beyond Search, Google Mobile Ads Blog, Trends in the Living Networks, Forbes, GigaOM and CNET
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.
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USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Breaking News …, Politico and Mediaite
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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Deadline.com, Telegraph and The Huffington Post
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