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Daily Beast Drops Out of Talks With Newsweek — The Daily Beast news and commentary website has withdrawn from talks with Newsweek magazine about a possible merger between the two news organizations, according to a person familiar with the matter.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

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

Discussion: The Local

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, blogs.vocalo.org, New York Magazine, Mixed Media, Chickaboomer and LA Observed

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.

Discussion: LA Observed

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, freefromeditors and FishbowlDC

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: rbr.com and NewTeeVee

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

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

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, MinOnline and New York Times

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: Romenesko, Media Decoder, Talking Biz News, Guardian, Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post, paidContent:UK and Press Gazette

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

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 …

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

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: Editor's Blog

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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