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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Newsweek's ‘Muslim Rage’ cover coincides with critique of Tina Brown — USA Today columnist Michael Wolff, a big name brought in to stoke much-needed buzz at a legacy publication trumpeting its reinvention as an Internet-age news organization, slams Newsweek Editor Tina Brown for bringing …

Discussion: PandoDaily, Featured stories, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite, Gawker, CJR, FishbowlNY, @yelvington and The Daily Beast

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Newsweek's ‘MUSLIM RAGE’ Cover Draws Angry Protest — Newsweek is courting controversy yet again with its latest cover. The magazine has become famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) for its deliberately provocative cover choices and stories.

Discussion: @newsweek, @jeffjarvis, @edmundlee, @willmcavoyacn, @craigsilverman, @justinsreedy, @craigsilverman, @john_mcguirk, @fiverupees and @dylanbyers

Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Is there a place for Tina Brown?

Discussion: Capital New York and FishbowlNY

Rob Crilly / The Telegraph:
Newsweek's ‘Muslim Rage’: A sickening piece of shock journalism that cheapens a once great magazine

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Martin Hickman / The Independent:

Exclusive: News of the World ‘ordered burglary’ — Detectives have evidence which suggests that a notorious private detective agency carried out a burglary while working for the News of the World. In the latest twist to the phone-hacking scandal, a police intelligence report indicates …

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 …

Discussion: @neilwallis1, @neilwallis1, @tom_watson, @martin_hickman and @alastairmorgan

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times Needs a Policy on Quotation Approval, and Soon — David Carr wrote a great column in Monday's New York Times on the topic of news sources demanding that they approve quotations in stories. Mr. Carr's “The Media Equation” had the headline “The Puppetry of Quotation Approval,” …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Media Decoder, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @jeffjarvis, @craigsilverman, @jeffjarvis, Politico, Kirk LaPointe's … and New York Times

Rick Rojas / Los Angeles Times:

Reporting live from the front lines of protest is his stream job — The man who goes by CrossXBones finagled his way into the center of the scrum. Sweat beaded on his shaved head, an American Spirit cigarette dangled from his mouth and a massive can of energy drink was holstered on the strap of his backpack.

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Arrested In Occupy Wall Street Protests

Discussion: Politico, The New York Observer, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Featured stories, Los Angeles Times and ABCNEWS

RTÉ:

Irish Daily Star Editor Michael O'Kane suspended over Kate Middleton photos — A board meeting of Indepenent Star, the company which operates the Irish Daily Star, has been cancelled. The meeting had been expected to take place tomorrow. It is understood the newspaper's managing director Ger Colleran is remaining in position.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and The Irish Times

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Providence Journal guild willing to discuss alternatives to layoffs — Staffers at the A.H. Belo-owned Providence (R.I.) Journal have until Monday at 5 p.m. ET to volunteer to take buyouts, which the paper said it would seek on Sept. 7. Belo hasn't said how many buyouts it's looking for …

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Daily News names Joel Siegel politics editor — ABC News producer Joel Siegel has been named managing editor for politics at New York Daily News, according to an internal staff memo from NYDN editor Colin Myler, obtained by POLITICO. — Siegel worked for the paper for fifteen years …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Kevin Allman / News, Gambit:

The Fight to Save The Times-Picayune — Kevin Allman on how New Orleanians came together in hopes of saving a paper that had no intention of being saved — There are things in your life, rightly or wrongly, you think are never going to change," says Rebecca Theim, a former Times-Picayune reporter now living in Las Vegas. "

Benjamin Sisario / Media Decoder:

Village Voice Appoints a Music Editor — The Village Voice has named a new music editor, three days after it emerged that the weekly's editor was departing and its music editor had been fired. — According to a post on The Voice's music blog on Monday afternoon, its new music editor is Brian McManus …

Discussion: Sound of the City

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

The real writer behind the fictional Will McAvoy's Twitter account — Will McAvoy isn't very Internet savvy. On the pilot episode of “The Newsroom,” he learns he has a blog. — “Seriously ... I have a blog?” he asks, after talking with the young journalist who runs it.

Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:

Fox & Friends prankster rips Fox News — Max Rice may have pulled a fast one on Fox News' Gretchen Carlson Monday morning, but he says there was an ounce of truth in the now infamous awkward interview — he will be voting for Mitt Romney this fall. — Rice appeared on Fox & Friends …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Erik Wemple and New York Magazine