He had received a phone call just that morning from a supporter furious about yet another newspaper story suggesting that he was boring. It was not the best of days for Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a man thought to be on Mitt Romney’s list of possible running mates. “I told my staff that I’m so boring that I didn’t even know I was boring,” he said at a large conference table, surrounded by several expressionless members of his staff. Read full article > >

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The suit involves e-mail hacking for which the newspaper has apologized.

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When I set out to cover the confirmation of an obscure Hispanic jurist, I had no idea I would spark the Great Tex-Mex Takedown of the 2012 presidential race. “Line of the day from WAPO’s Dana Milbank,” President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted when the column appeared in the newspaper on Wednesday. “ ‘The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos.’ ” Read full article > >

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The chimichanga wars

The royal commentator and former royal editor of the Daily Mirror James Whitaker has died, the newspaper confirms.

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Former Mirror royal editor dies

The Leveson Inquiry into press standards is to hear evidence from senior figures in the newspaper industry when it resumes for the first time since Christmas.

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Leveson to hear from Sun editors

Janet L. Robinson, who served as chief executive of The New York Times Company during a time of rapid change and uncertainty in the newspaper industry, will step down this month.

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When editors of the Cavalier Daily discovered evidence of rampant plagiarism by a staff writer at the University of Virginia’s 121-year-old student newspaper last month, they dutifully reported it to their readers and removed the offending articles from the paper’s Web site. They also contacted the university’s Honor Committee , made up of fellow students who enforce a tradition of academic integrity that is older, even, than the newspaper. At a campus as earnest as U-Va., it seemed the right thing to do. Read full article > >

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The editor of The Sun should be asked if the newspaper had any involvement in phone hacking, a Labour MP tells its party conference.

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It’s hardly news that local TV newscasts are the most popular source of community information. Surveys and Niel­sen ratings have shown that for years. But the second most widely followed source of local news isn’t the newspaper, radio or the Internet. It’s the oldest and most basic form of human communication: word of mouth. Read full article > >

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‘Word of mouth,’ as news source, gains on local TV broadcasts, Pew says

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating whether the Standard & Poor’s credit ratings agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The investigation began before Standard & Poor’s cut the United States’ AAA credit rating this month, but it’s likely to add to the political firestorm created by the downgrade, the newspaper said. Some government officials have since questioned the agency’s secretive process, its credibility and the competence of its analysts, claiming to have found an error in its debt calculations. Read full article > >

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Report: Justice Department investigating Standard and Poor’s mortgage securities ratings

What a difference three weeks make. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch met Wall Street analysts and the press via conference call Wednesday for the first time since appearing before a committee of the British Parliament on July 19 to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal hatched by his company’s British tabloid paper, News of the World. Then: Murdoch, 80, looked doddering and abashed and sounded foggy when asked for details about what went on at News of the World and what his company, News Corp., did about it. When he wasn’t mumbling or offering monosyllabic answers to lawmakers’ questions, he was deferring to his son, James, to explain how the newspaper’s reporters and investigators broke into the phone accounts of hundreds of British citizens. Murdoch’s most memorable sound bite that day: “This is the most humble day of my life.” Read full article > >

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Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. is back to his swashbuckling self

The News of the World’s chief reporter and a former news editor with the newspaper have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of phone hacking, the BBC understands.

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The Newspaper Guild is joining with the unpaid bloggers at the Huffington Post, calling on them to withhold content. In a letter that calls the Post’s practice of publishing the work of unpaid writers “unprofessional and unethical,” the newspaper union…

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On January 22, 1996, the New York Times unveiled its new online edition at nytimes.com , offering readers access to “much of what the newspaper has published the previous week and access to feature articles from as far back as 1980.” Prior to the launch of nytimes.com, the Times ‘ content had been available through the @times service at America Online, starting in 1994. From a 1996 article by Peter H. Lewis introducing readers to the new online portal, a description of the new advertising and subscription model: Mr. Nisenholtz said that initially, at least, no subscription or access fee would be charged for readers in the United States and that the electronic paper would generate revenue from advertising. Readers who connect to the electronic paper from outside the country will be offered a 30-day trial without charge, but will eventually face a subscription fee. Advertisers that have already announced participation on the Web site include Toyota Motor Corporate Services, Chemical Bank and the Northeast real estate concern Douglas Elliman.  Subscribers will have limited access to archives of Times articles and features dating to 1980, and will be able to copy articles to their own computers for $1.95 each, Mr. Nisenholtz said.   The new service will also offer, for a fee, a customized clipping service that delivers to a subscriber’s electronic mailbox articles gleaned from each day’s editions of the newspaper, based on key words the subscriber selects.  With its entry on the Web, The Times is hoping to become a primary information provider in the computer age and to cut costs for newsprint, delivery and labor. Companies that have established Web-based information sites include television networks, computer companies, on-line information services, magazines and even individuals creating electronic newspapers of their own. H/T Michael Donohoe . Via Michelle Legro .

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The New York Times’ Website Turns 15

If you’re living in China, it might get harder to pick up some drugs on your street corner as more and more professional smugglers switch over to electronics. The newest version of the iPad has not yet been released in China, but there’s definitely a demand; individuals are just turning to illegal products to satisfy their cravings. A recent bust of 88 iPads and 340 mobile phones that 14 housewives attempted to smuggle into China shows that smartphones and tablets are among the items that are now in demand on the black market. The net worth of the electronics is reported to be 950,000 yuan, or roughly $143,000 by the Guangzhou Daily . One woman had 65 smartphones attached to her waist and another had 20 in her handbag, the newspaper reports. For their efforts they only made $30 each trip, pointing out that smugglers are now targeting people with no criminal records in order to get the black market goods over the border. Read the full story at Time ‘s Techland .

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Rising Demand for Apple Products on Chinese Black Market