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- "Lament for a Dying Field: Photojournalism" [NYTimes] –
- "FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model" [paidContent] –
- Sources: Wanted terror suspect Top killed – CNN.com – "Noordin M. Top, one of Asia's most wanted terrorism suspects and linked to several Indonesian bombings in the past decade, was killed Saturday, ending a six-year manhunt, two law enforcement sources tell CNN."
- John Hughes: The soundtrack to a generation — Los Angeles Times – "A great teen movie needs a soundtrack. Youth is captured better in song than on film, and behind every brain, athlete, basket case, princess or a criminal is a score. John Hughes knew how to find it."
- Notes on repatriation (recession, media depts) – James Fallows – "It would be too overwhelming to try to list all the things my wife and I miss about three years' immersion in China, and all the things we enjoy about returning to the house where we've lived, off and on, since the early Reagan era."
I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok. I report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.