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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Why the TV Networks Blocked Google TV (It's About the Ads) — Until Online Revenue Matches TV, Networks Will Do All They Can to Keep Web Shows on PCs and TV Shows on TV — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal reported today that the nation's big broadcast networks are blocking Google TV …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and ChasNote, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:
Networks in Rift With Google TV

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Some networks blocking shows on Google TV

Discussion: New York Post and Search Engine Land

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed — A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a series of articles about a supposed Facebook privacy breach. We and others noted that the article was complete rubbish. — We also noted that the Wall Street Journal's sister company …

Alicia Shepard / NPR:

NPR's Firing of Juan Williams Was Poorly Handled — Juan Williams once again got himself into trouble with NPR for comments he made at his other job, at Fox News. And NPR's reaction has unleashed an unprecedented firestorm of criticism directed not at Williams - but at NPR.

Abe Sauer / The Awl:
NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago

Discussion: rbr.com, ThinkProgress, St. Petersburg Times, The Plum Line and Fox News

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Williams Episode Shows 2 Versions of Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Rupert Murdoch Admits He Can't Compete With Google — News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch has likely never acknowledged (at least not publicly) that he has failed at something, particularly when it involves a market worth billions of dollars, but he appears to have conceded defeat in his attempt to build a competitor to Google News.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Media Week:
Murdoch aims sideswipe at ‘traditional elites’ curbs on News Corp

Discussion: Press Gazette

Media Week:
Rupert Murdoch's full speech at the Centre of Policy Studies

Discussion: paidContent, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian and Crikey

Reuters:
News Corp ices Alesia digital newsstand plan-source

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, Romenesko, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk, Free Press, Arif Durrani and campaignlive.co.uk

Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels resigns amid accusations of crass behavior — Four-member Executive Council to run company as it struggles to exit bankruptcy. — Having lost the support of many employees, his board and the creditors who will soon take over the bankrupt media company …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wrap, Media Decoder and blogs.vocalo.org

Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Creditor Proposal Expected Friday

Discussion: Romenesko

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Okay, We Got More Money — Well, this is what happens when you break news about your competitors getting acquired by AOL. They get back at you by revealing news that you raised additional venture dollars while you are fast asleep. I was planning to write about the fact that we received …

Discussion: paidContent

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million

Discussion: MWD Tech News

Robert Quigley / Old Media, New Tricks:

Newspapers on Twitter, ranked by followers — Inspired by this interesting but flawed effort to measure U.S. newspaper Twitter followers, I scoured the Twittersphere to come up with an exhaustive list of Twitter followers for as many U.S. newspapers as I could. I ended up with 200, but I think I'm the only one exhausted.

Discussion: Anil Dash

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap: Tweet This: The Top 25 Magazines on Twitter

Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:

AOL loses key editors; still says it's home of premium content — A OL is losing more key writers and editors, including the head of AOL News. Mike Nizza the editor in chief of AOL News is decamping for News Corp. World editor James Graff is departing to take the managing editor position …

Discussion: paidContent, Mixed Media, SAI and New York Magazine

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

WikiLeaks suggests news outlets publishing Iraq docs soon — The Pentagon has been bracing all week for online whistleblower WikiLeaks to publish roughly 500,000 classified Iraq war documents, perhaps again in collaboration with news organizations who provide context and analysis of what's in the massive cache.

Discussion: Agence France Presse, New York Times, ABCNEWS and Boing Boing

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Making Sense of Early Sales for Magazines' IPad Editions — How Do You See These Figures for Seven Titles' Apps? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — This is an experimental year for magazines on the iPad, but six months after its arrival, it's not too soon to start looking over the early results.

Discussion: WebNewser, The Awl and Poynter Online

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:

Google to Combat India Piracy — NEW DELHI—Google Inc. plans to launch a music service in India to help users search for legal online streams and downloads, a move aimed at combating rampant digital piracy that has held back the country's entertainment industry.

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Using the power of publishing to influence: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's entry into the news biz — On the front page of today's New York Times is a story on the prodigious corporate funding of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the tax-exempt group that supports business-friendly policies …

Discussion: CJR, ThinkProgress, The New Republic, Sunlight Foundation, The Washington Independent and New York Times

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

R.I.P. Chatroulette: A Sad Tale of Missed Opportunity — Remember Chatroulette? It's hard to believe that barely eight months ago the anonymous video chat site had everyone captivated. Venture capitalists clamored to invest, journalists tripped over one another to profile—and now Chatroulette is dying, unused and unloved.

Discussion: msnbc.com, Social Culture … and MediaPost Raw

Andrew Beaujon / TBD All News:

Tom Shales confirms he's likely to leave Washington Post — Tom Shales, the Washington Post's Pulitzer-prize winning television writer, says he's probably going to leave the paper when his contract expires at the end of December. “It's been a long process,” he says. — Shales took the paper's buyout offer in 2006.

Discussion: The Wrap, Gawker, New York Observer, Romenesko, tony of all media and The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Plans for News Corp.'s iPad Tabloid Taking Shape — Fast! — Who launches a newspaper in the year 2010? Rupert Murdoch, that's who. The News Corp. chairman's pet project — a national news tabloid, created expressly for tablet computers like the iPad — is moving ahead rapidly …

Discussion: New York Observer, Poynter Online and New York Magazine