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8:00 AM ET, December 11, 2012

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 Top News: 
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
David Walsh ‘humbled’ by recognition of 13-year investigation into Lance Armstrong  —  David Walsh accepts the Journalist of the Year Award.  Picture: JB Young Photography  —  David Walsh was given a rapturous reception at the first British Journalism Awards on Tuesday night as he picked …
Discussion: Media Week
Jeff Wise / New York Times:
In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story  —  Late last month, the editor in chief of Vice magazine, Rocco Castoro, joined by a photographer, Robert King, managed to secure a plum exclusive: an invitation to travel along with the fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee.
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Detained John McAfee Sells Life Rights for Movie, TV
Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Lawyers for accused Colorado shooter to subpoena Fox News reporter  —  (Reuters) - An attorney for accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes said in court on Monday he will subpoena a Fox News reporter to reveal her source for a news story about the massacre, setting up a potential First Amendment showdown.
Discussion: Associated Press and Daily Mail
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Can Jeff Zucker fix what ails CNN?  —  CNN is struggling, and doesn't understand the job in hand.  But new president Jeff Zucker could be just what it needs  —  People who have worked with Jeff Zucker, the just-appointed president of CNN, are said to adore him and to be incredibly loyal to him.
Discussion: New York Post
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
After rapid growth, ebook readers set for collapse with shipments plummeting 36% in 2012  —  In 2011, dedicated ebook readers saw shipments of 23.2 million units, a number that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market.  By the end of 2012, sales are expected to fall a whopping 36 percent to 14.9 million units.
James Ball / Guardian:
Washington Post appears to be a dinosaur - but has already evolved  —  Its core, influential - and paying - print audience in the US capital is backed up by a forward-thinking online presence  —  British journalists have a bit of a habit of sneering at our American counterparts.
Discussion: Street Fight and Garcia Media
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders  —  Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog?  —  Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributing it to the common internet user.
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV adds local sports surcharge for some new subscribers  —  Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has quietly added a surcharge to some customers for sports channels separately on several of its most popular programming packages.  New DirecTV subscribers who live in areas where there are more …
Lynne Marek / Crain's Chicago Business:
The end of Trib's bankruptcy means new legal pain for shareholders  —  Tribune Co. will exit the mire of its four-year bankruptcy within weeks, but thousands of former employees and shareholders likely will remain stuck in litigation with the company's creditors for years.
Brian Alvey / TechCrunch:
What The Daily Got Right From Day One  —  Editor's note: Brian Alvey is Chief Scientist and founder of Ceros.  Brian is obsessed with the “brand publishing” phenomenon and talks about it endlessly on Twitter and in-person at companies around the world.  —  “Everything you read online …
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Magazines ramp up publishing in 2012  —  Magazine publishers are still tightening their belts three years after the nightmare of the advertising recession shook the industry to its toes.  But the itch to launch new magazines shows no sign of going away.  In 2012, veteran publishers …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tablet Video Startup Watchup Raises $500K From Knight Foundation, News Vets, Others  —  Watchup, a StartX-incubated video iPad app that allows users to build their own news playlists, has raised a $500,000 angel round of funding.  —  It's an impressive list of investors, including Digital News Ventures …
BBC:
Labour reveals its Leveson plan  —  Opinion is divided over how to proceed with the findings of Lord Justice Leveson  —  Labour has published details of how it would like to see the press regulated in the wake of Lord Justice Leveson's report on press standards.
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Press Association:
Tories dismiss Labour plans for Leveson law
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves
Discussion: Wired, The Daily Beast and Mother Jones
MediaMonkey / Guardian:
Les Hinton back with a vengeance on Twitter
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
HBO appoints Xbox co-founder and HBO GO developer Otto Berkes as CTO
Discussion: Cable Television News
Amrita Tripathi / OPEN Magazine:
Inside The New Yorker  —  The office feels like a bubble.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Wasserman named dean of Berkeley's j-school
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Fake study says Fox News viewers have low IQs
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Daily Kos
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
No sleep till: Technically Media's next expansion stop is Brooklyn
Discussion: Technically Philly
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Barnes & Noble signs deals with HBO, Sony and others to launch Nook Video service for tablets in the UK
Discussion: CNET
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Costa named National Review D.C. editor