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6:45 AM ET, May 23, 2012

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble  —  Patch.com, a network of small-town news sites owned by AOL Inc., has emerged at the center of a tug of war over the Internet company's future.  —  The high cost of running the local-news sites has fueled a campaign …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:   AOL's Patch Gets a Haircut in Push For Profitability
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Patch Cuts 20 Managers, Restructures
Discussion: TVNewser
Felix Salmon:
How Gawker wants to monetize comments  —  Back in November, I grappled with the fact that online display ads in general, and banner ads in particular, are clearly not working very well; my suggested alternative was for brand advertisers to embrace the power of the external link.
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Ailes Regrets ‘Scum’ Attack on NYT  —  Fox News chairman backs off harsh language in a college speech  —  Roger Ailes, who loves to bash the liberal media, used some extraordinarily harsh language the other day—and now realizes it.  —  In a speech Monday night at Ohio University …
Voice of San Diego:
Knight Grant Fuels New VOSD On-Demand Mag  —  Exciting news here at VOSD: We're going beyond our online site to publish a print and digital monthly magazine.  —  Voice of San Diego Monthly is part of our new membership program, which aims to build a community of readers (you!) to help support us into the future.
Discussion: Knight Foundation and FishbowlLA
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Tribune prepares to spin off business units  —  Tribune Co. is streamlining its corporate structure for the possible sale of publishing and broadcast units after its exit from bankruptcy.  The Chicago-based company recently filed a document with the Delaware court handling the bankruptcy …
Discussion: Poynter
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Saul Daniels / Northridge-Chatsworth Patch:   Tribune Restructures to Spin Off the Los Angeles Times
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Primetime Ratings Sink to 20-Year Low  —  Final numbers give the network's Monday-Friday showing, between 8 and 11 p.m., its smallest take among total viewers in two decades.  —  CNN's ratings woes continue to get worse.  Following last week's news of a 15-year primetime low during Piers Morgan …
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Yahoo under Levinsohn seen shifting to content, advertising  —  (Reuters) - With two of its most distracting conflicts resolved in the past week and a half, Yahoo Inc hopes its new interim chief executive can focus on the biggest challenge of all: turning the company into an entertainment …
Jay Greene / CNET:
How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies  —  Amazon Studios is crowdsourcing movie-making, creating test movies, that fans can review, with storyboard art in the place of video, like this image from a possible upcoming release called “Touching Blue.”
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Dish defends ad-skipping DVR, pay TV peers throw it under bus  —  If Dish Network was expecting an “I am Spartacus” level of peer support for its new ad-skipping DVR, it won't find it at this week's Cable Show.  And aggrevated broadcasters shouldn't be looking to hear an apology and retraction from Dish chief Charlie Ergen, either.
Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
Son of THR Founder Shares Some Memories  —  If and when that Lifetime movie being developed by Johnny Depp's company about William R. Wilkerson, founder of The Hollywood Reporter, comes to fruition, a whole new generation will be introduced to Tinseltown's original trade reporter.
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic:
In Praise of ProPublica  —  Among all the nonprofit and for-profit news organizations founded in the digital era when so many traditional print publications have suffered economic catastrophe, the most respected new enterprise is ProPublica.  Launched in 2007-08 with a $30 million long-term commitment …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Michael Meyer / CJR:
The Ford Foundation's unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times  —  And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell  —  On Thursday, Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj announced that his paper, once a profit engine for multi-billion dollar corporate owners …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
TV Everywhere's Counting Problem  —  “TV Everywhere” is supposed to let the traditional TV business hang on to the status quo, by promising viewers they can watch whatever they want, whenever they want it.  —  As long as they keep paying for TV.  —  But even if consumers go for that deal …
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Attorney Plots to Get WaPo's Wemple Fired  —  WaPo media opinion writer Erik Wemple is on the receiving end of threats today after writing about the purported plagiarism of TWT and UPI Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave (pictured here).  He reported today that the columnist has taken a leave of absence.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Arnaud de Borchgrave takes leave from Washington Times
Discussion: Washington Post
 
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Michelle Breidenbach / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Syracuse University files show the making of Mike Wallace — at a historic time
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Scott Griffen / International Press Institute:
Kidnapped Mexican Reporter Found Dead
Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette
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Reuters:
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
OMG! BuzzFeed to Open D.C. Bureau
Discussion: DCist and FishbowlNY