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8:50 AM ET, December 6, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing  —  In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat.  —  Over the past several days, as compelling testimony over the harsh treatment …
Discussion: New York Times and Pressing Issues
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Eliza Gray / The New Republic:
Bradley Manning Gets No Love From The New York Times
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Bradley Manning Hearing On Confinement Resumes
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes
John Koblin / Deadspin:
Why Is An ESPN Vice President Spreading Rumors That I'm Straight?  —  “I don't know your personal life,” ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone.  “I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life.”  —  Earlier today, on Twitter, two different journalism students …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN  —  Deadspin reporter John Koblin's been aggressively reporting on ESPN, and ESPN writer Lynn Hoppes' alleged “Wikipedia plagiarism,” in a series of items recently.  —  And today, ESPN executive vice president John Walsh offered …
Discussion: Daily Download
Reuters:
Amazon and Google start e-book sales in Brazil  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc both opened their digital bookstores in Brazil on Thursday, hot on the heels of e-book offerings by local booksellers in a fast-growing online retail market.  —  The simultaneous introduction …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks appear at Old Bailey  —  David Cameron's former comms director and ex-News International head appear on charges of payments to officials  —  David Cameron's former communications director, Andy Coulson, and the ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks …
Discussion: The Scotsman
Andrew Belonsky / T Magazine:
Oh Snap |  Instagram in Print  —  With the dawn of the Instagram age, the time it takes to create and distribute a photograph — what sometimes used to take days — has shrunk to, well, an instant.  We're now awash in a torrent of split-second events.  Here to impose some permanence …
Matt Thompson / Poynter:
Why journalists should explore the business side of news  —  Most of us still remember a time when revenue was enough of an incidental byproduct of journalism that journalists could ignore it almost completely.  We just did our jobs, and then — somehow — money happened.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work?  —  Over the last year, we have reported on the emergence of Oyster, 24symbols and Bookboard - all planning to offer rental of multiple ebooks for a monthly subscription.  —  But, with the conventional ebook download craze still taking off …
Discussion: Melville House Books
Jessica Plautz / Investigative News Network:
Investigative News Network Grows to More Than 70 Member Organizations  —  INN is pleased to announce the addition of six newsrooms from around the U.S., whose work ranges from covering government to public broadcasting to community reporting.  The new members are The News Enterprise …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Suicide Is Not the Media's Fault  —  Last Friday, the Tampa Bay Times published a nuanced and heartbreaking feature story about Gretchen Molannen, a 39 year-old Florida woman with a condition known as “persistent genital arousal.”  Molannen described how her condition—likened to constant …
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Julian Assange Bypasses Mainstream To Sell Book  —  WASHINGTON — Julian Assange is wasting little time while shut inside Ecuador's embassy in London.  The WikiLeaks founder has recently released a book called Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet.
Brian Lowry / Chicago Tribune:
Media-ownership rules need new look  —  The prospect of the Federal Communications Commission relaxing media-ownership rules has produced predictable hand-wringing from the usual suspects.  —  Variety  —  The prospect of the Federal Communications Commission relaxing media-ownership rules …
Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:
The science of content subscriptions: Understanding lifetime customer value and price power  —  The great media business model debate of our time can be simplified into three words: free versus paid.  —  Can free-to-air websites and apps be monetised through advertising or is paid content the way to go?
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R. Umar Abbasi / New York Post:
Anguished fotog: Critics are unfair to condemn me  —  I was on an assignment, waiting for a train at the 49th Street subway platform, when I suddenly heard people gasping.  The announcement had come over the loudspeaker that the train was coming — and out of the periphery of my eye …
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover
 
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
KT McFarland Pushes Back Against Ailes, Petraeus Story: ‘I Know Now That Roger Was Joking’
Discussion: Politico
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Aereo CEO: Our cheap TV wouldn't exist without cloud computing
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Hearst Corporation:
Hearst Corporation's Steven R. Swartz promoted to president
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Business Wire:
Patch Appoints Steven Kalin President and Chief Operating Officer
Discussion: PR Newswire and MarketWatch
 Earlier Picks: 
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Obama: Reporters At Business Roundtable Event ‘Got Enough ... To Spin A Story’
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Netflix says it won't raise prices after Disney deal
Jim Romenesko:
What you didn't see in the Gov. Brewer ‘where-the-hell-did-that-come- from?’ video
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Hachette enters into new ebook contracts with retailers post-DOJ settlement
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos
Charlotte Cowles / New York Magazine:
Hearst's Lawyers Now E-mailing Former Unpaid Interns
Discussion: Poynter
Erik Maza / WWD:
Ambassador Anna Wintour?