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10:15 AM ET, July 30, 2011

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New York Times:
2007 Letter Clearing a Tabloid Comes Under Scrutiny  —  LONDON — When a Parliamentary committee first confronted The News of the World with charges of phone hacking in 2007, the paper's owners produced a reassuring, one-paragraph letter from a prominent London law firm named Harbottle & Lewis.
Discussion: Guardian, CJR and Future of Journalism
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
News Corp. tells New York Post: Save any phone hacking information  —  News Corp. has told staffers at its New York Post tabloid to “preserve and maintain” any information related to phone hacking or government payoffs in exchange for scoops.  —  The memo comes in response to an ongoing probe …
John Morton / American Journalism Review:
In Love with Newspapers  —  Rupert Murdoch's lifelong devotion to newsprint.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Longshot!:
and the Issue Two theme is...  The moment has arrived.  Here's how this works: Starting right now, you have 24 hours to produce and submit your work.  We'll take the next 24 to select, edit, design and lay everything out.  The end result will be a beautiful glossy paper magazine.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Almost-Free Toolkit We Use to Make Longshot Magazine  —  At 3 pm today, the Longshot Magazine team will begin work on our third issue. 48 hours later, we'll close the 60-page book.  —  Longshot is a crazy project that I cofounded with Sarah Rich and Mat Honan about a year and a half ago.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert for the Associated Press  —  In its modern, digital forms, writing has become something like an untended garden.  It's overgrown with text-speak and crawling with invasive species like tweets and dashed-off e-mails.  OMG, it's a mess.
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Old allegations of spying could haunt News Corp. in U.S.  —  Even though lawsuits have been settled, that wouldn't prevent the government from revisiting such allegations in investigations of possible phone hacking in America.  —  As British lawmakers and Scotland Yard investigate allegations …
Erik Wemple:
Business Insider's Zeke Miller: All over Washington, from New York Hill  —  Business Insider's Zeke Miller (at left) covers the debt crisis the same way many Beltway reporters do.  He gets up before 5 a.m. to read up on the news and commentary.  He arrives in the office at around 7 a.m. and spends the day reporting and aggregating.
Emily Witt / The New York Observer:
New York Germinates Stories for Hollywood Harvest  —  Two stories from New York have been optioned through the recent arrangement signed between the ICM agency and the magazine.  ICM already represented The New York Times in Hollywood when it added New York as a client in June to better facilitate …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Meet the Dozen Tech Publicists who Secretly Control the Media  —  The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs.  They have to spin crap products into good stories.  And let's face it, most of them are powerless.  But not these dozen PR pros.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
In Deal With NBC, Amazon Seeks to Widen Its Video Streaming Service  —  Amazon, the online retailing giant, announced a deal with NBCUniversal for access to part of Universal Pictures' film library on Thursday, its second such pact in the streaming video space in as many weeks.
Discussion: Adweek
R. Thomas Umstead / Multichannel:
TCA: HBO Execs Still Hoping Time Warner, Cablevision Go For HBO Go  —  ‘Luck’ To Debut in 2012  —  HBO executives say that they're hoping to secure distribution deals for HBO Go holdouts Time Warner Cable and Cablevision in the near future.  —  HBO co-president Richard Plepler told TV critics attending …
Discussion: AllThingsD and Gizmodo
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Questions for Baratunde Thurston: What The Onion can teach real news organizations about social media  —  The Onion is funny because it looks and feels like real news.  To do that well, The Onion has to act like a real news organization.  —  So when Baratunde Thurston …
 
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