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9:40 AM ET, September 7, 2012

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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival  —  Apple Inc. is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.
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Phil Wahba / Reuters:
Pandora shares down 14 percent on reports of rival Apple service  —  (Reuters) - Shares of Pandora Media Inc fell 14 percent in premarket trading on Friday following media reports that Apple Inc was in talks to license music for a radio service like the one Pandora operates.
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Journal Register's bankruptcy might affect the revival of the New Haven Register  —  In the spring of 2009, when I began researching what would become a book about online community journalism, I couldn't have found a better foil than the New Haven Register.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why does Project Thunderdome have to be in New York City?  —  A day after the Journal Register Company announced bankruptcy (again), I paid a visit to Thunderdome, the rapidly growing Manhattan hub that Digital First launched to help reinvent the way JRC and MediaNews Group newspapers produce the news.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Street Fight
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again
Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Newsroom:
What bankruptcy means for Journal Register Company newsrooms
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Poynter
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fact: AP Unclear on Definition of ‘Fact’  —  Myth: We suck.  FACT: You suck.  —  This Associated Press “fact check” of Bill Clinton's speech last night has attracted a fair amount of Internet abuse, but not nearly enough.  It's not only a prime specimen of journalistic idiocy …
Discussion: Paul Krugman, CJR and Pressing Issues
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
AP Defends Decision To Fact-Check Bill Clinton Using Monica Lewinsky
Dylan Byers / Politico:
AP's Clinton fact-check cites Lewinsky
BBC:
Phone hacking police arrest journalist  —  Operation Tuleta is investigating computer hacking  —  Another journalist has been arrested by police investigating the alleged hacking of stolen mobile phones.  —  The 33-year-old man remains in custody after going to a police station in south London by appointment on Friday.
Discussion: Press Association
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International may face 230 new claims over alleged phone hacking  —  Claimants include the former Arsenal and England footballer, Sol Campbell and former Atomic Kitten singer, Kerry Katona  —  News International is expected to face at least 230 new compensation claims from alleged victims …
Discussion: The Independent and Guardian
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite: Four Years in the Making  —  Amazon executives gush about their new e-reader as the Kindle they always wanted to make.  —  While the latest Kindle Touch came out last year, the technology behind the Kindle Paperwhite's new lit screen is four years in the making.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Exclusive: USA Today to redesign paper, relaunch website  —  USA Today is planning a major relaunch of its newspaper, website and mobile platforms, complete with a new “USA TODAY” logo, POLITICO has learned.  —  The redesigned USA Today newspaper is tentatively scheduled to debut on Sept. 14 …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Fox to Offer Digital Movies Closer to Theatrical Release  —  LOS ANGELES — Fox is about to pry open the window for digital film sales.  —  Beginning later this month with Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller “Prometheus,” the studio plans to offer high-definition versions of its films …
Discussion: The Verge, Engadget and Gizmodo
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Oracle-Google judge ends probe into paid bloggers  —  (Reuters) - The federal judge overseeing a major lawsuit over smartphone technology between Oracle Corp and Google Inc has quietly ended his examination of those companies' relationships with paid bloggers and other commentators.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Dare the Palace complain to the PCC over The Sun's Prince Harry picture?  —  The advisers to the royal family are facing a real dilemma over Prince Harry's naked pictures.  Dare they make a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about The Sun publishing one of the intimate photos?
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Tumblr Finally Gets Serious About Ads — By Hiring Someone to Sell Ads  —  Tumblr has poached top Groupon sales exec Lee Brown as it aims to finally try to make money from its millions of blogs and billions of page views.  —  Brown was at Yahoo for more than 10 years before joining Groupon two years ago.
 
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