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12:35 PM ET, September 27, 2012

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Times Selects Deborah Needleman to Run Its Style Magazines  —  Deborah Needleman, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal's style magazine, has been hired to run T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the Times announced Tuesday.  Ms. Needleman is taking over a franchise …
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
US investigates possible WikiLeaks leaker for ‘communicating with the enemy’  —  A US air force systems analyst who expressed support for WikiLeaks and accused leaker Bradley Manning triggered a formal military investigation last year to determine whether she herself had leaked any documents to the group.
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Telegraph:   Julian Assange appeals to US to stop ‘persecution’ of WikiLeaks
NBC News:
US documents reportedly refer to Assange, WikiLeaks as ‘enemy’
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
NBC Unpacks Trove of Data From Olympics  —  ONE afternoon in early August, a 41-year-old working mother in Los Angeles didn't get much work done.  —  Instead, she watched the London Olympics on television.  She went to NBC's Web sites to stream the competitions, which that day included badminton …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Tipping Point?  We're Watching More Web Video on TVs Than on PCs.  —  Getting Web video off your PC and onto your plasma screen used to be a niche activity.  No more: Consumer-tracking service NPD says TV sets are now the most popular way to watch streaming video.
Discussion: Noted, NYT Bits, The Verge and PC Magazine
Bloomberg:
Dish Said to Be in Talks With Viacom About Internet TV  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is talking to networks such as Viacom (VIAB) Inc.'s MTV about offering their channels over the Internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five people familiar with the plan said.
Jim Romenesko:
Bryan College: Ordering student newspaper to kill story about prof's arrest ‘may have been a mistake’  —  Bryan College sent this statement from President Dr. Stephen Livesay about his decision to order the student newspaper to kill its story about a professor arrested for attempted child exploitation.
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Jim Romenesko:
Will Bryan College force student editor to resign?
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The Atlantic Tries Native Ads  —  Jay Lauf, The Atlantic's publisher, swears he doesn't hate banner ads.  The thing is, he thinks most are a waste of space for all involved.  —  “I would love to eliminate banners because I think most of them don't work,” said Lauf, who also has some experience as a journalist.
Discussion: Mashable!
Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
Drunken Cornell Students Troll the New York Times  —  For a trendpiece on how social media is killing the college bar, the New York Times headed upstate to prep Bacchanalia Cornell University to get some juicy quotes from bros and bro-ettes just trying to enjoy a fishbowl full of vodka …
Discussion: New York Times and Poynter
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking claimants drop demand for exemplary damages  —  Lawyers acting for more than 170 alleged phone-hacking victims, including Cherie Blair and Wayne Rooney, have dropped their claim for exemplary damages, the high court has been told, as News International accused them of seeking “windfall” payouts.
The Smoking Gun:
Book Publisher Goes To Court To Recoup Hefty Advances From Prominent Writers  —  Buster  —  A New York publisher this week filed lawsuits against several prominent writers who failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual advances, records show.
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Women Editors-in-Chief Make $15,000 Less Than Men  —  The only thing equal is the job title.  Even though there are stories of editors like Anna Wintour and Janice Min pocketing seven-figure salaries, Folio magazine's annual compensation survey found that on average, male editors-in-chief …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Quartz's practice of ‘linking out’ renews attention to aggregation debate  —  CJR's Hazel Sheffield took a look at the new publication Quartz and didn't like a few things: links take you away from the site, there's no commenting, infographics aren't interactive and It didn't have enough original content when she looked at it.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and CJR
Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Margaret Sullivan: What I Read  —  How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all?  What sources can't they live without?  We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts, and the literary world to hear their answers.
 
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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
American court orders BBC to hand over Yasser Arafat documentary footage
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Executive Producer of ‘Today’ Says Ouster of Ann Curry Was His Call
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