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12:20 AM ET, August 9, 2011

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The Politico:
Rick Perry to make 2012 intentions clear Saturday  —  Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina on Saturday to make clear that he's running for president, POLITICO has learned.  —  According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
NYT Labs: Can a newspaper think like a startup?  —  After delaying the project while it launched a paywall, the New York Times has finally rolled out its version of Google Labs, the now-shuttered project that provided a home for the search company's various web experiments.
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
What journalists need to know about libelous tweets  —  Rumors that CNN had suspended Piers Morgan due to the News of the World phone hacking scandal spread on Twitter earlier this month, sparking an important discussion about whether journalists need to verify information before tweeting.
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Apple's rumored ‘Replay’ service a ways off  —  Warner Bros. is one of at least four top film studios from which Apple has yet to obtain streaming-movie licenses, sources say.  —  The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud movie service …
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Current TV Taps David Bohrman as President  —  Former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman has been named president of Current TV, the cable TV channel founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt.  Current has switched its focus in recent months from non-fiction and user-generated content towards news …
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Why Huffpo Would Be Better Off Without ‘Zombie’ AOL  —  Tim Armstrong.  Image by AOL via CrunchBase  —  Back in February, Arianna Huffington said that selling her company to AOL was like “stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet.”  In terms of creating value for shareholders …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:   AOL iPad Mag “Editions” Missed The Memo About The AOL Way
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Why the Web's New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys  —  Nielsen's ‘Campaign Ratings’ Isn't a Cure-all, Could Expose Other Ills  —  It's become an article of faith among digital folks that once online media can be measured apples to apples to TV, big dollars will flow to the web.
Michael Wolff / Adweek:
How Bad Is News Corp.?  —  In my biography of Rupert Murdoch, I referred to News Corporation as Mafia-like, provoking the annoyance of my publisher's libel lawyers.  I explained to them that I did not mean to suggest this was an organized crime family, but instead was using “mafia” …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Hawaiian punch!  A paywall showdown in Honolulu  —  It looks like Honolulu just turned into a two-paywall town.  Last week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content.  And it's a hard wall, too: no monthly allowance for stories like, say, The New York Times offers …
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
‘Extreme Couponing’ show blamed for rise in newspaper thefts  —  A 34-year-old Arkansas woman was charged with misdemeanor theft last week after she stole 185 unsold copies of the Springdale Morning News that were left outside a grocery store for a carrier to pick up.
Dan Duray / The New York Observer:
Conde Nast Sued Over Vanity Fair Oleg Cassini Story  —  Conde Nast has been sued for libel over Maureen Orth's September 2010 Vanity Fair article, “Cassini Royale,” about designer Oleg Cassini and the battle over his estate.  The plaintiff identifies herself as Marianne Nestor-Cassini …
Discussion: The Wrap
Telegraph:
How technology fuelled Britain's first 21st century riot  —  The Tottenham riots were orchestrated by teenage gang members who used the latest mobile phone technology to incite and film the looting and violence.  —  The disorder was captured second-by-second on Twitter with rioters so caught …
Trymaine Lee / The Huffington Post:
The Rise And Fall Of KING, The 'Illest Men's Magazine Ever'  —  “We need to talk about KING,” the Harris Publications exec told Datwon Thomas, editor-in-chief of XXL magazine and a founder and editorial director of KING, the men's lifestyle magazine.  —  It was early 2009.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Another Cool New Yorker App.  And This One's Free.  —  Like the New Yorker's iPad app, but don't want to pay for it?  Here's a sort-of alternative: The magazine's new entertainment listings app.  —  It's not the New Yorker, but it's built using the magazine's intellectual DNA.
 
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Dino Grandoni / The Atlantic Wire:
America's Newspaper History Gets Mapped
Discussion: Freelance Unbound
Edward Jay Epstein / The Atlantic Wire:
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Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:
Using watermarks to add digital content to print
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Adventures in self-publishing: Here's what a month-old news site looks like
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
London riots needed Twitter news curators, but where are they and who pays for them?
Neil Thackray / TheMediaBriefing:
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Curation Tool Storify Partners With MSNBC's Breaking News For Sourced News Content
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
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Discussion: Future of Journalism
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here's how the BBC plans to grab the rest.
Discussion: Fast Company and ZDNet
Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
The New Yorker Under the Microscope
Steve Outing:
The stupidity of our current media age (print-digital edition)
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Magazine Publishers Cast Wide Tablet Net
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
New York Times:
Ad Money Reliably Goes to Television
Discussion: Adweek and The New York Observer
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Facing their own troubles, Berlusconi and Murdoch square off