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The Media Equation: Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print — Last week, John Paton met with executives of the MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain by circulation in the country, home to papers like The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Salt Lake Tribune …
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Future of Journalism and Big News Network.com
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Introducing Poynter's MediaWire — As you may have noticed, our main media news blog has a new name today. The MediaWire blog, formerly Romenesko, has the same purpose as before: to highlight the most interesting journalism issues of the day. To alert us to news we've missed, send tips and suggestions here.
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series — It has been one of Newsweek's signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984. — Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year …
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Occupy Oakland and News Media Coexist Uneasily — Immediately after a man was shot to death Thursday afternoon near the Occupy Oakland encampment, Randy Davis, a cameraman for KGO-TV, turned his lens on a group of protesters helping the victim. Then part of the crowd turned on him.
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NBC Bay Area and The Nation

Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC — NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. — The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …
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Inside Cable News

Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed — As much as we tout Twitter for its conversational abilities — for its revolutionary capacity to create discursive, rather than simply distributive, relationships with news consumers …
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Journalism.org, Poynter and Future of Journalism

Hacking police find ‘bombshell’ emails: Now detectives may want to question James Murdoch — Police investigating phone-hacking at the News of the World have recovered a series of ‘bombshell’ emails which they believe takes the inquiry to ‘a new level’. — The emails were among tens …
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Future of Journalism, @afneil and @martin_hickman
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Sky News Deletes Tweet Of James Murdoch Arrest
Sky News Deletes Tweet Of James Murdoch Arrest
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James O'Keefe Is Capitalizing on the Cult of Journalistic Objectivity — His latest sting is yet more evidence that pretending reporters have no opinions or biases is no longer tenable — Here's how Brooke Gladstone, host of the NPR show On the Media, summed up one obligation of professional journalists …

Sunday paper sales boom seems to be over — Rivals' circulation gains after News of the World's closure are dropping back — There are three points of interest in October's ABC circulation returns. First, the flexibility of the Sunday redtop market without the dead leader.

Bachmann Camp Accuses CBS News Of Media Bias After Accidentally Receiving Private E-Mail — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is crying foul after CBS' foreign policy debate yesterday, accusing the network of media bias because of an e-mail that indicated she would not be getting …
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Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Hillicon Valley, TVNewser and CNN

Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.99, adds ads — The Kobo Touch e-reader will soon be available for $40 less thanks to a new version with Offers. Just like on Amazon's Kindle, ads will populate the lock screen and a sliver at the bottom of the homescreen.
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Gizmodo, The eBook Reader Blog, CNET News, Liliputing, The Digital Reader, TeleRead, The Digital Reader and Engadget

Richard Scott obituary — As a family member of the Scott Trust he prevented the merger of the Guardian with the Times in the 1960s — Richard Scott, who has died aged 97, held a series of senior editorial posts on the Guardian and was pivotal to its survival through its worst crisis.
New York Times:
CNN Sets Off a Debate on Race and Technology — For nearly two weeks, a debate ignited by a CNN documentary has raged on the Internet about the obstacles to success in Silicon Valley and whether the technology industry is as meritocratic and as color-blind as it aspires to be.
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Future of Journalism and Chickaboomer