Morning report
Fareed Zakaria
* Fareed Zakaria defends not attributing quotes in his best-selling 2008 book, “The Post-American World”: “This is not an academic work where everything has to be acknowledged and footnoted,” he tells Paul Farhi. The book contains “hundreds” of comments and quotes that aren’t attributed because doing so, in context, would “interrupt the flow for the reader.” Farhi notes that Zakaria’s column will not be running in the Washington Post this month. The Time and CNN journalist apologized last week for plagiarizing from The New Yorker. (washingtonpost.com)
* With over $170,000, 99% Invisible becomes the most funded Kickstarter in journalism. (mediabistro.com)
* The leading bidder for Variety is a hedge fund whose holdings include the National Enquirer parent. (latimes.com)
* Jane magazine founder Jane Pratt is 49, but insists 15 is her emotional age. (nymag.com)
* Iver Peterson, who covered the Vietnam war for the New York Times, dies at 70. (nytimes.com)
* Twitter suspends Nikki Finke accounts — both the real one and a spoof one. (laobserved.com)
* Twitter account of Dell CEO’s daughter is shut down. (mashable.com)
* NBC says nearly 220 million people watched the Olympics. (nytimes.com)
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