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7:55 AM ET, August 31, 2012

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Jack Shafer / Reuters:
Column: Why the Yahoos at Yahoo were wrong to fire David Chalian  —  If you're a journalist and you've ever said anything “inappropriate,” as David Chalian got caught doing yesterday — and you know you have — please step forward to be fired now.  —  Chalian, the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs
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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.
Wired:
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes  —  It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America's many undeclared wars.  But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere.
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens legal action over bin Laden book  —  (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Thursday in a letter to a former U.S. Navy SEAL that he was in material breach of non-disclosure agreements with his book detailing his first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
CBS News Uses Makeup To Hide Identity Of Navy SEAL Who Wrote Bin Laden Book (VIDEO)
Discussion: TVNewser
BBC:
Assange row: Hague says ‘no solution in sight’  —  Julian Assange has been at the embassy since June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden  —  There is ‘no solution in sight’ to resolving the Julian Assange extradition row, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.
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Telegraph:
Julian Assange: I'm going to be in the Ecuadorean embassy for a year  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could remain holed up inside Ecuador's embassy in London for a year, he has predicted.  —  The 41-year-old Australian, who faces arrest and extradition to Sweden over alleged sexual offences …
Discussion: Guardian
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Charlize Theron, Thunder Road to Produce Film About Slain War Reporter (Exclusive)  —  The actress is in talks with Basil Iwanyk's company to produce a project on Marie Colvin, who died in Syria this year.  Charlize Theron and producer Basil Iwanyk are teaming up for a film about the life …
Discussion: Guardian and Press Association
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' response to HBO Nordic: It's on!  —  Hot on the heels of HBO's announcement that the network is going over the top in Northern Europe, comes Netflix CEO Reed Hastings challenge for it to do the same in the U.S. Hastings posted the following comment Thursday afternoon on his Facebook page:
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
U.S. journalist reportedly in Syrian custody  —  American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who has been unaccounted for in Syria for more than two weeks, has been captured and is being held in Syrian government custody, according to people familiar with the matter, including a senior diplomat.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
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.
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Adweek's Digital Guide to Election Apps and Sites  —  It's like an being on Instagram, but with more boring white males!  —  “Why not create a space with a stream of everything in one place?” is what WashingtonPost.com asked readers in its introduction to The Grid.
Brendan Nyhan / CJR:
Ignored factchecks and the media's crisis of confidence  —  Whatever campaigns may do, aggressive truth-telling is the right approach for reporters  —  Can the media stop politicians from misleading the public?  —  That's the question on the minds of many journalists and commentators …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
CNN-TIME's Political Convention App Exceeded 10,000 Downloads on First Day of RNC  —  The app offers round-the-clock National Convention news and alerts to its users.  —  J ust a few days prior to the Republic National Convention, Time Warner Inc. launched the CNN-TIME Convention Floor Pass app …
 
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Comcast Said Near U.S. Approval To Encrypt Basic-Cable Signals
Discussion: Radio & Television … and ZDNet
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
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Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:
News Corp doesn't have much to show for its boldness
Discussion: Guardian
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
If Content Is King, Multiscreen Is The Queen, Says New Google Study
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As Hurricane Isaac hits New Orleans, Times-Picayune prints in Alabama
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Guggenheim Partners Nearing Deal to Buy Dick Clark Productions (Exclusive)
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVWeek.com
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video