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12:55 AM ET, October 19, 2010

Top News:

Tribune Board Said Ready to Oust Chief Executive — The board of directors of the Tribune Company is expected to ask for the resignation of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive of the company, on Tuesday, according to a person directly involved in the matter.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mixed Media

Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org: Editor calls damage to Tribune reputation ‘shameful’

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Daily Beast Drops Out of Talks With Newsweek — The Daily Beast news and commentary website has withdrawn from talks with Newsweek magazine about a possible merger between the two news organizations, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The two parties have been discussing …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Gawker, Folio, Mediaite, The Wire, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Mixed Media and Mediaweek

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Pooling Resources, Two Newsrooms Merge — The nonprofit investigative journalism world continues to expand with the announcement on Tuesday that the Center for Public Integrity will absorb the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, a nonprofit journalism arm of The Huffington Post.

Gawker: The Huffington Post May Be Chopping Off Its Investigative Fund

David Folkenflik / NPR:

What's The Point Of Journalism School, Anyway? … If there's one thing a journalism school expects of its students, it is the ability to pose a tough question. — Orion de Nevers, a freshman at the University of Southern California, serves up this one: Why would anyone major in journalism at all?

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko, FishbowlDC and freefromeditors

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Howard Kurtz finds there are news nuggets in the tough, often tacky blog world — I didn't get into journalism to write about Brett Favre's private parts, and I suspect most of my colleagues would like that story ruled out of bounds. — But our ability to spike such tawdry tales ended many seasons ago.

Discussion: Chickaboomer and MinOnline

David Carr / New York Times:
When Salacious Is Irresistible

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Chris Wickham / Reuters:

Reuters columnist resigns after trading code breach — (Reuters) - A columnist at Reuters Breakingviews has resigned after multiple breaches of the Thomson Reuters TRI.N (TRI.TO) code of conduct on share dealing, and cases involving other commentators are being investigated.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Talking Biz News, Guardian, The Huffington Post, paidContent and Press Gazette

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Univision, Vevo Strike Content Pact — Vevo is looking to widen its footprint in the Hispanic market by adding Univision to its content distribution and ad sales network. — The music video site—a joint venture between Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company …

Discussion: NewTeeVee and rbr.com

Gabriela Schneider / Knight Foundation News Releases:

Sunlight Foundation to Launch “National Data Apps” with grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Sunlight Foundation will create a series of new “National Data Apps” that will help citizens easily use federal data to better understand everything …

Discussion: Sunlight Foundation and KnightBlog

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

New York Times to Launch Texas Regional Edition By Month's End — The New York Times will up the ante on its year-old venture into regional editions with the launch later this month of two pages of statewide Texas news in its Friday and Sunday papers. — While the business metrics …

Jason Fry / National Sports Journalism Center:

Five Reasons Sports Departments Are Digital Innovators — Earlier this month, the University of Memphis's Carrie Brown-Smith and Drury University's Jonathan Groves offered a post on Brown-Smith's excellent blog The Changing Newsroom identifying sports departments as homes for newspaper's Web innovators.

Discussion: State of the Fourth Estate

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Brightcove preparing for IPO in 2011: source — (Reuters) - Online video publisher Brightcove is preparing for an initial public offering in the first half of next year, according to a person close to the company. — Brightcove, which helps media and marketing companies distribute Web videos across …

Discussion: MediaPost, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent and All Things Digital

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Online journalist cuffed in Alaska explains his biz model — When I talked with the editor of a startup news site in Alaska, Tony Hopfinger, last week, he told me his business model is based on cultivating an audience inside the Frontier State, while still writing stories with a national appeal.

Discussion: The Caucus, TPMDC and The Huffington Post

Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller security guards handcuff editor

Discussion: Alaska Dispatch, KTVA-TV, Ben Smith's Blog, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Mother Jones, Committee to Protect …, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, CJR, The Daily Dish, The Daily Caller, MetaFilter, BAGnewsNotes, Politics Daily, Talking Points Memo, Gateway Pundit and Boing Boing

Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:

Independent to launch new cut-price national daily — Alexander Lebedev is to launch a cut-price daily national newspaper next Tuesday aimed at the quality market. — The paper, called i, will launch as a spin-off version of The Independent with a cover price of just 20 pence targeting …

Discussion: Media Week and Editor's Blog

Martin Schwimmer / The Trademark Blog:

NY Times v Kachingle — Kachingle says that it has pioneered a new approach that will save traditional journalism thorugh ‘micropayment monetization’ of content such as blogs. A Kachingle customer's account is billed some small amount when they read content on a site that partners with Kachingle.

Discussion: paidContent

Stephen Mayne / Crikey:

Rupert and me: 48 hours of travel for a 12-minute exchange — With 38.4% of the voting shares, there is no doubt Rupert Murdoch still controls News Corporation after 57 years as chief executive. — However, for the first time I can recall, Friday's AGM in New York saw …

Discussion: Press

Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:

One Quibble About the Best English-Language Magazine — Britain's Spectator stomps the competition for witty and erudite commentary, but its explanation of a re-design was gratuitous. — An editor of a magazine these days may receive no greater compliment than when a reader expresses …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal — Ahhhhhhhhhahhhaha! — The inmates are now running the asylum. — All anyone is talking about today is the series of articles that the Wall Street Journal has written about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Not-So Private Parts, Post Tech and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Techmeme »

The Maynard Institute:

Editor & Publisher Staff Fired — Replacements named at “bible of the newspaper industry” (10/18/10); White House stands by bloggers; uplifting, yes, but were 1,300 journalists needed? ; O'Reilly's ratings rise after dust-up on “The View”; “journalist” calls to mind white women …

Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent, Mediaite and Jacket Copy

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

NextNewNetworks Building Scale Through Producer Network...Christine O'Donnell Mash-up Goes Viral — A mash-up video of the Christine O'Donnell campaign a spot, in which the candidate denies being a witch, has reached some 250,000 views today (10/18) in its first day. It is among the top ten most watched on YouTube.