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10:30 AM ET, August 29, 2012

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
CNN's Exquisitely Awkward Spot  —  You've probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.”  Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.
Discussion: Mediaite and Pressing Issues
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The Huffington Post:
Republican Attendees Thrown Out After Racist Attack On CNN Worker  —  Two attendees at the Republican National Convention were thrown out of the convention center in Tampa on Tuesday after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “this is how we feed the animals.”
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson rulings expected to include ‘excoriating’ criticism of the press  —  Lord Justice Leveson is expected to launch what is being described as “excoriating” criticism of the press after notices went out to all newspaper groups warning them that he anticipates making rulings on everything from privacy to self-regulation.
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Press Association:
Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails  —  A journalist was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of computer hacking.  The 28-year-old man, understood to be the former Times journalist Patrick Foster, was held at his north London home on Wednesday morning.
Severin Carrell / Guardian:
Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor
Discussion: @jamesdoleman
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Wall Street Journal wants its reporters filing microvideo updates for its new WorldStream  —  The Wall Street Journal has been busy expanding its video offerings and experimenting with dedicated news streams in recent months.  Today, the natural merger of the two debuts: a stream of reporter-generated videos called WorldStream.
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists
Discussion: Mashable!
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA  —  Mark Mazzetti reports on national security for The New York Times.  He sent the text of a Maureen Dowd column that hadn't yet been published to CIA spokesperson Marie Harf, Dylan Byers reported Tuesday morning. …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT reporter leaked advance copy of Maureen Dowd column to CIA
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Exclusive: Amazon NY to sell its ebooks through B&N, Kobo, other retailers  —  Amazon's New York-based book publishing imprint, which is headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned.
Klint Finley / TechCrunch:
Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments  —  News publishers are becoming tech companies, right down to the Google Labs style experimental sites: The New York Times Company Research & Development Lab, The Globe Lab, WapPo Labs...
MediaShift Idea Lab:
Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalists in Afghanistan  —  New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it.
Associated Press:
New York Times leading group defense in patent suit over mobile texts containing Web links  —  The New York Times Co. is girding for a legal battle that many larger organizations have avoided.  The Times is leading the defense of a diverse group of companies that use technology they assumed was free …
Discussion: paidContent
Jim Romenesko:
Peggy Noonan has a new blog on WSJ.com  —  The Wall Street Journal says Peggy Noonan will write daily on political, cultural and personal subjects on her blog — simply called “Peggy Noonan's Blog” — and continue to do her weekly “Declarations” column.  The Journal's release …
Amy Wicks / WWD:
Sally Singer Out at T  —  Sally Singer is out as editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.  Singer joined the Times back in July 2010 after a long run at Vogue as fashion news and features director.  At the time, she succeeded Stefano Tonchi who left T to become editor in chief of W …
Discussion: Media Decoder and MinOnline
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Erik Maza / WWD:   Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why newspapers need to get to know their readers better  —  We've pointed out before how Facebook and Twitter face the same kind of problem that the mainstream media industry is struggling with — namely, finding enough advertising revenue to make up for the fact that they are essentially giving away …
Lindsay Kalter / American Journalism Review:
The Ann Arbor Precedent  —  Three years before it announced it was taking a digital-first approach and cutting back on print publishing at papers in New Orleans and three other states, Newhouse's Advance Publications adopted a similar MO in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  How has it worked out?
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
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Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot:
Reporter's Tumblr gets him barred from RNC party
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Rex Sorgatz / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What The New York Times should do next: membership
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Ohio State forbids reporters to tweet during press conferences
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The Tweeps on the Bus  —  IT'S EASY TO FORGET that eight months …
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image

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