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New York Times:
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.
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The Huffington Post and Mixed Media
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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Daily Beast Drops Out of Talks With Newsweek — The Daily Beast news and commentary website has withdrawn from talks with Newsweek magazine about a possible merger between the two news organizations, according to a person familiar with the matter.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 …
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Chickaboomer and MinOnline
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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The Caucus, TPMDC and The Huffington Post
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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