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Cnn International

»  Although CNN’s grasp on the American cable news market has slipped, execs claim its worldwide audience makes it tops overall. [Crains NY]

»  Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are quitting en masse, raising questions about crowdsourcing. [WSJ]

»  Why making Josh Tyrangiel the editor of BusinessWeek not only marks a generational shift, but makes sense as well. [Slate]

»  The McClatchy Co. (NYSE: MNI) is releasing five of its papers — The Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte Observer, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, the Anchorage Daily News and the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer — on Kindle. [ E&P]

»  Hulu is allowing users to tag video and, in the process, fill in the gap “the metadata provided by its content partners falls short.” [NewTeeVee]

»  Thanks to a federal law immunizing websites against being prosecuted for content it didn’t create, Zynga and Facebook will probably have a defense against a “scam ads” lawsuit. [MediaPost]

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