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Views of the News: Murdoch "Not Fit"; Obama's Secret Trip, OBL: What Would Mitt Do?; Paywalls Work?

Murdoch "Not Fit" to Run News Corp.

Paul Sonne and Jeanne Whalen, The Wall Street Journal: "News Corp. Blasted In U.K."

David Carr, The New York Times: "Deconstructing Parliament's Loquacious Condemnation of News Corporation"

JimRomenesko.com: "Murdoch's Letter to Dow Jones Employees"

Amy Chozick, The New York Times: "Findings Bolster Calls for News Corp. Changes"

Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe, The Guardian: "Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group"

Sam Gustin, Time: "Rupert Murdoch: Not 'Fit,' but Still 'Proper' -- for Now"

Obama's Sorta Secret Afghan Trip

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Obama's Stealth Mission to Afghanistan Shakes Up the Campaign"

Alex Fitzpatrick, Mashable: "How Twitter Nearly Ruined Obama's Secret Trip to Afghanistan"

Zeke Miller, BuzzFeed: "How The White House Smothered The News of Obama's Trip to Afghanistan"

Osama bin Laden: What Would Mitt Have Done?

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John Cassidy, The New Yorker: "Romney Walks Into Obama's Bin Laden Trap"

Dan Turner, Los Angeles Times: "Obama's Bin Laden ad a low blow"

Michael Hiastings, BuzzFeed: "Will The Navy SEALs Swift Boat Obama?"

More Transparency for Campaign Commercials

Doug Halonen, The Wrap: "FCC to TV Stations: Put Political-Ad Information Online"

Justin Elliott, ProPublica: "FCC-Required Political Ad Data Disclosures Won't Be Searchable"

Paywalls May be Stabilizing Newspaper Readership

Nat Ives, Ad Age: "Aided by Paywalls, Newspapers Halt Circulation Declines"

Steve Myers, Poynter.org: "Several big circulation gainers charge for online access, almost none of losers do"

Sex & Murder Top Longform Web Stories

Longform, org: "Two Years of Longform: What the Hell Did We Just Read?"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.