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5:35 PM ET, September 25, 2010

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Zucker Announces Departure From NBC  —  Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, told the company's employees in an e-mail Friday morning that he would step down from his position upon the completion of the takeover of NBC by Comcast.  —  The fate of Mr. Zucker …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Zucker: Why Announce Exit Now?  No Reason To Hold Back In A Twitter World  —  Why did Jeff Zucker announce his pending exit as CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) months before the merger with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is likely to close?  “Once you have something like that done in a world like we live in today …
Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:   Comcast's Burke: NBC Title Contender or Behind the Scenes Power?
David Folkenflik / NPR:
How The L.A. Times Broke The Bell Corruption Story … A vendor sells a copy of the Los Angeles Times with an article about Bell city officials on the cover.  —  Reporters get threatened, dismissed or ignored all the time.  Less common is the experience of Ruben Vives …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Magazine's Obama Critique Spurs Fact Checking and Media Soul Searching  —  When Forbes published a cover story this month by Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author, asserting that President Obama is opposed to free markets and traditional American values because he inherited …
Discussion: Guardian
Anil Dash:
Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences  —  The short version: Gourmet Live, the new iPad app that reimagines Gourmet as a sort of massively multiplayer magazine, is live.  I've been working on this for the past six months, and I'm enormously proud of it, so if you've got an iPad …
Discussion: Michael J. Wolf
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
CNN's Klein: ‘I Got Shot’  —  CNN president Jonathan Klein didn't come into work this morning.  —  “I didn't want to put people in an awkward situation,” he told me.  Two days ago, he learned he was out of a job.  —  On Wednesday afternoon, CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Glam Media Continues Hiring Spree; Scores Talent From Yahoo, Google, Conde Nast  —  Glam Media, a top-ranked women's media network, is announcing a number of new hires today for its technology, brand sales, engineering, and product teams.  —  Chris Murphy joins Glam as the Sr. Director …
Discussion: paidContent
Craig Silverman / CJR:
Slate Shuts the Window  —  A long-overdue corrections policy revision  —  Not long after Slate launched in 1996, editor Michael Kinsley was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to correct an online article.  He decided to tackle the challenge in part by detailing the issue in an article:
Discussion: Regret the Error
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com's bookstore of the future: pay to preview content?  —  On Thursday, October 21st, Network Computing Architects (NCA) will be hosting its 4th Annual “Security and Technology Conference” at the Hyatt in Bellevue.  This day-long, multi-track event will feature technology leaders …
Nick Douglas / The Awl:
The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms  —  Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two.  Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Cash for cameos: ‘Wall Street’ pays  —  Tweet  —  Oliver Stone's latest movie, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” is all about traders' love of making big bucks, but Gordon Gekko would choke on his cigar if he knew about the investment plans of the folks who have cameos in the finance-focused feature.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Company Town and DealBook
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube to Mobile Operators: Partner Up With Us  —  Consumers are flocking to mobile YouTube videos, with viewership growing more than 160 percent in 2009 and on pace for similar growth this year, a YouTube exec told an audience at Huawei's Global Mobile Broadband Forum.
 
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
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