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11:15 AM ET, September 17, 2012

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Gideon Lichfield / news thing:
On elephants, obsessions and wicked problems: A new phenomenology of news  —  Goodbye to the beat  —  The first “beat reporters” were probably the men sent by newspapers to hang around the criminal courts in the early 19th century.  Today almost every news outlet is organized around fixed beats …
Discussion: @zseward and Talking Biz News
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch  —  Quartz — Atlantic Media's business news startup, set to take flight later this month — may be bursting into the marketplace at a gem of a time.  —  Tepid growth is taking hold in the U.S., with second recession worries ebbing; Europe appears headed for a “soft landing.”
David Carr / New York Times:
The Puppetry of Quotation Approval  —  Now that it's become clear that many journalists covering politics and government agree to quotation-approval as a condition of access, it's tough not to see the pageant of democracy as just that: a carefully constructed performance meant to showcase the participants in the best light.
Tom Harper / The Independent:
Exclusive: News of the World hired detective firm linked with murder to spy on Met Chief  —  The News of the World hired private detectives to spy on a former Metropolitan police commissioner, Independent Voices can reveal.  Lord Stevens, who led Scotland Yard between 2000 and 2005 …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
He Said, She Said, and the Truth  —  IN journalism, as in life, balance sounds like an unassailably good thing.  —  But while balance may be necessary to mediating a dispute between teenage siblings, a different kind of balance — some call it “false equivalency” — has come under increasing fire.
New York Times:
Italian Magazine Publishes Disputed Images of Duchess  —  ROME — Chi, a glossy Italian gossip magazine, on Monday became the latest outlet to publish images of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, sunbathing topless on a vacation in France.  —  The magazine is owned …
Discussion: Gawker, TMZ.com and The Sun
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Patrick Sawer / Telegraph:
Richard Desmond casts doubt on future of Irish Daily Star after it prints topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
States' ebook settlement: Preliminary approval, and a 2013 hearing  —  Federal district judge Denise Cote has preliminarily approved (PDF) the states' $69 million ebook pricing settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.  The settlement covers all the states except Minnesota …
Brett Smiley / New York Magazine:
Times' Maureen Dowd Accused of Playing on Anti-Semitic Stereotypes  —  New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd rings in the Jewish new year Sunday with a controversy brewing over her column titled “Neocons Slither Back,” in which she peddles Jewish stereotypes and uses anti-Semitic imagery …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Human Rights Watch got into the quasi-journalism business  —  Media from nonprofits has boomed in recent years.  But that doesn't just mean the ProPublicas and Texas Tribunes of the world — nonprofit advocacy groups are also inching their way into the media business.
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Is there a place for Tina Brown?  —  What will happen to Tina Brown?  And should we care?  The most famous magazine editor of her generation is engaged in a desperate and operatic struggle, which almost no one anywhere believes has any chance of success, to reinvent Newsweek as a sustainable business proposition.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
At Precipice, Hyperlocals Face $$$ Realities  —  At this year's Block by Block Community News Summit, revenue has become the new mantra for a group of journalists who are the founders, reporters and editors of hyperlocal sites across the country.  “They need to be pushed to start thinking …
Discussion: Street Fight
Hazel Sheffield / CJR:
James Brown estate case reporter slapped with subpoenas  —  The 60-year-old journalist believes South Carolina is attempting to hush her  —  When the judges responsible for distributing the estate of the late musician James Brown started refusing freedom of information requests …
 
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