Mediagazer: Pandora shares down 14 percent on reports of rival Apple service (Phil Wahba/Reuters)

9:40 AM ET, September 7, 2012

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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.

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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.

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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Journal Register, future-of-news star, is bankrupt again

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Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Newsroom:
What bankruptcy means for Journal Register Company newsrooms

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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 …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
AP Defends Decision To Fact-Check Bill Clinton Using Monica Lewinsky

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
AP's Clinton fact-check cites Lewinsky

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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.

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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 …

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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Writing Is On The Wall For Physical Books

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Amazon Confirms The Launch Of New, Episodic Publishing Format — Kindle Serials

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Reuters:
Amazon introduces new Kindle Fire, starts at $159

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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 …

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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?

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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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