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2:10 PM ET, September 23, 2011

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David Bowden / Sky News:
Phone Hacking: Lawyers To Launch US Action  —  Lawyers acting for phone-hacking victims are planning to launch legal action in the US against directors of the News Of The World's (NOTW) parent company News Corp, Sky Sources have said.  —  It is another significant escalation in the phone-hacking saga …
Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Dowler lawyer pursues US legal action against News Corp  —  Mark Lewis instructs lawyer of 20 9/11 families over allegations News of the World staff may have bribed police  —  The solicitor who represented the family of Milly Dowler in their phone-hacking claims …
Telegraph:
Phone hacking: News International paid Neil Wallis while he was at Scotland Yard  —  The former News of the World executive employed by the Metropolitan Police was secretly paid more than £25,000 by News International during his time at Scotland Yard, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Discussion: Jon Slattery
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:   NI chief executive reneges on Rebekah Brooks promise to staff
Marco.org:
A Business Insider retrospective  —  After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers.  —  After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few years, often automatically by scraping Techmeme.
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Ryan McCarthy / Felix Salmon:
Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic  —  The news that Business Insider raised approximately $7 million should be great news for those who follow the world of web media.  Henry Blodget's got a flat-out growth story on his hands: his staff of 60 now attracts 12 million visitors …
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store  —  (Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store.  —  The business newspaper …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources  —  Views of the News Media: 1985-2011  —  OVERVIEW  —  Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
The Guardian and Independent launch Facebook apps  —  Facebook unveils new type of app ‘which could be very interesting in terms of traffic’, according to the Guardian  —  The Guardian and Independent have become the first UK newspapers to launch a new style Facebook app …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
HarperCollins to Allow Print-on-Demand Books  —  It's about to get easier to find more books at some small bookstores.  —  HarperCollins Publishers Inc. has agreed to make about 5,000 current paperbacks available to bookstores through On Demand Books LLC's Espresso Book Machine …
Discussion: The New York Observer
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post CEO Explains Facebook Partnership  —  NEW YORK — For the past few months, Washington Post CEO Don Graham tried out a beta version of the newspaperâs Social Reader, one of several news apps unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at Thursdayâs f8 conference.
Discussion: Future of Journalism and Mashable!
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Andrew Shotland / Google News Ranking Factors 2011:
How Do You Get To The Top of Google News?  —  That's the question on the minds of pretty much everyone in the news industry.  And that's the question Tim Ruder, Neil Pharazyn and I were discussing when we came up with the idea for the Google News' Ranking Factors Survey.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Firm Offers Insight Into Tablet Mag Sales  —  Publishers have big hopes that tablet editions will help offset what have been soft sales of their ink on paper magazines.  But digital magazine sales have been slow to take off.  —  Some are testing a new service that could help them get more out of their sales efforts though.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
In Seattle Times' new digital-first newsroom, roles change to ‘creation, curation, community’  —  The Seattle Times has reorganized its newsroom to a digital-first structure with three personnel roles: creation, curation and community.  Reporters and editors create content …
The Next Web:
Facebook's f8 livestream: 25 days in the making, a 40-person team, a milestone in online media  —  For me, the biggest news from Facebook's f8 event today isn't social music, the partnerships or even the new Timeline feature - it's the livestream.  —  This was no live feed …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Time Warner's Bewkes: 'Cordcutting Hasn't Arrived'  —  Warned by an interviewer at today's Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won't go away, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes couldn't resist a bit of a joke.  “The cordcutting that won't go away won't come either.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Reed Hastings: We Are Bringing Netflix To Facebook, Except In The U.S.  —  Netflix is coming to Facebook in a really social way.  At Facebook's F8 developer conference today, Mark Zuckerberg previewed how Facebook members will be able to see what movies or TV shows their friends have been watching …
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Jonathan Stray:
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Chris Mitchell Makes Changes at GQ
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Layoffs at Viacom  —  Viacom employees have been hit with a round …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to debut iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on October 28 and unveil a new iPad mini and Macs in late October; some could ship from November 1

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