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6:10 PM ET, August 9, 2011

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Erin Griffith / Adweek:
The Trouble With Back-Ends  —  No publication has a better story about back-end chaos than BusinessWeek.  —  Before it was acquired by Bloomberg LP, the publication sank a shocking $20 million into the back-end development of Business Exchange, a professional social networking site …
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch  —  When the News Corporation board convenes on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot Tuesday for its first meeting since a phone hacking scandal overseas plunged the company into turmoil, the participants will include many people with deep and personal ties to Rupert Murdoch.
Discussion: Poynter
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Murdoch to face Wall Street on News Corp earnings call  —  (Reuters) - News Corp is taking a risk in putting boss Rupert Murdoch, famous for his off-script comments, on the media conglomerate's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday with succession questions sure to be asked.
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
Discussion: Press Gazette and Adweek
Michael Wolff / Adweek:
How Bad Is News Corp.?
Discussion: Guardian and Mixed Media
Steve Myers / Poynter:
U.K. photographer explains how she captured dramatic photo during riots  —  All the major newspapers in the U.K. published a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the riots that have terrorized the country, captured by Amy Weston of the photo agency WENN.
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Guardian:
London riots: Sky, ITN and CNN reporters attacked  —  Broadcasters' vans smashed in Croydon and Sky News reporter Mark Stone forced to flee in Clapham disturbance  —  Journalists and photographers came under attack on Monday as London faced its third consecutive day of violent riots in the capital.
Mark Milian / CNN:
Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device  —  (CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.  —  The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Wall Street's Demand for Demand Media Falls Off  —  After the markets close tomorrow, Demand Media will report its second-quarter earnings.  —  Wall Street is expecting a solid performance from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker compared to last year.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains  —  The addition of the Huffington Post and other acquisitions allowed AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to tell Wall Street what it has long waited to hear: the internet company's global advertising revenues grew in the second quarter, the first time that's happened since 2008.
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:   AOL CEO Says The Ad Side Of The Company Doesn't Have Enough “Operational Scale”
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Phone-hacking scoopster Nick Davies may join Guardian's planned U.S. operation  —  When not tirelessly chronicling the ongoing British phone-hacking saga, The Guardian has been lining up journalists to staff the U.S.-based website that the U.K. broadsheet plans to have up and running sometime this fall.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Brooklyn's Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy  —  The world isn't lacking for news about Brooklyn's artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to focus on the less hip side of New York City's largest borough.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000%  —  One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provided by nearly 2,000 publishers that is being released today …
Discussion: GalleyCat and Techland
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Fast Chat: CNN President Ken Jautz  —  Since taking over as president of U.S. operations at CNN last September, Ken Jautz has been struggling to jazz-up what had become a snoozing network—at least by the clamorous standards of the cable news universe—with high-profile hires like Erin Burnett …
Discussion: TVNewser and Inside Cable News
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
A year after launch, lessons from the TBD experience  —  A year ago, my TBD colleagues and I launched one of the great adventures of my career.  —  Few remain there.  TBD barely remains, its staff and mission diminished and redefined.  Founding leader Jim Brady parted ways with owner Robert Allbritton last November.
James Parker / The Atlantic Online:
Valley of the Trolls  —  It's the rare star who can withstand the predatory cameras of TMZ on TV.  —  AM I ON some kind of Web site for nuts and stalkers?" asked Paris Hilton, rhetorically (I think), during the premier episode of her new reality show, The World According to Paris.
Alison Kitchens / American Journalism Review:
On the Beet  —  Beet.TV makes its mark with video interviews of media and technology executives.  Tues., Aug. 9, 2011  —  Alison Kitchens (akitchens@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant.  —  If your job has something to do with digital media, chances are Andy Plesser is looking for you.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Host your own crowdsourced investigation with the Help Me Investigate plugin  —  When we open-sourced the code for Help Me Investigate the plan was to move from a single site to a decentralised, networked structure.  Now, thanks to Andy Dickinson, it has become even easier for anyone to host their own journalism crowdsourcing platform.
 
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