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1:55 PM ET, October 22, 2010

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 Top News: 
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.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Williams Episode Shows 2 Versions of Journalism  —  NPR's decision Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel's decision to give him a new contract on Thursday put into sharp relief the two versions of journalism that compete every day for Americans' attention.
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role  —  The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million.  Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims.
Reuters:
News Corp ices Alesia digital newsstand plan-source  —  * Alesia did not attract enough publisher partners  —  * Alesia not seen on fast track to launch in U.S.  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) has put on ice ambitious plans to create a subscription online newsstand …
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: Poynter Online and mediabistro.com
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Press Clips: Joe Pompeo Leaves Business Insider for Yahoo  —  ​The second part of the change-up at Business Insider comes down the transom!  A leaked memo about protest at Fox News, and, hey, activists!  Here's how to get around those pesky security arrangements.
Wall Street Journal:
Networks in Rift With Google TV  —  ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions
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.
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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Tweet This: The Top 25 Magazines on Twitter
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million  —  Om Malik, well-respected journalist and founder of technology news blog network Giga Omni Media and its flagship blog GigaOm, broke the news about us being acquired by AOL about a month ago now.
Discussion: MWD Tech News
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Okay, We Got More Money
Discussion: paidContent
Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:
AOL loses key editors  —  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 at The Week and James Burnett, AOL's enterprise editor, left for Rolling Stone.
Discussion: SAI
Media Week:
Rupert Murdoch's full speech at the Centre of Policy Studies  —  Rupert Murdoch, the founder, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, heaped praise on Margaret Thatcher for ‘expanding the boundaries of freedom’ tonight, before turning to bloggers and why they will never replace journalists.
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Media Week:
Murdoch aims sideswipe at ‘traditional elites’ curbs on News Corp
Discussion: Press Gazette and Arif Durrani
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: Social Culture …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
How US newspapers are coping with abusive commenters  —  What's to be done when readers' online comments tip over from the critical into the abusive?  That problem has been faced by several newspapers in the US.  —  In the latest example, the Portland Press Herald shut down its comments service …
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Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
Comments return to the Portland Press Herald
Scripting News:
New blogging techniques  —  What I call paragraph-level permalinks have made an appearance in Jay Rosen's blog, thanks to the innovative design work of Lauren Rabaino.  —  Nieman Lab calls out the feature.  —  And this got a geek going, Daniel Bachhuber, whose new (today) …
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.
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
After Three Issues, Jody Quon Resigns from ‘W’  —  Jody Quon has resigned as creative director and editor Stefano Tonchi's number two at W after three issues.  She was one of the leading voices in the new design of the magazine for its September relaunch.  A spokesperson for the magazine told …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
TV Guide Site Partners With ABC for ‘Check-In’ Feature  —  TVGuide.com has partnered with ABC to help kick start its new TV Check-In feature—the site's answer to the slew of startup social apps, which encourage users to tell their friends what they watch or are planning to watch on TV.
 
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Greg Braxton / Los Angeles Times:
TV reporter Lu Parker plays by her own set of rules
Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko and LA Observed
Ryan Flinn / Business Week:
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Vevo Turns Up Heat on MTV in Online Video Dispute
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
ATD Gets Social With Liz Gannes (In Other Words, We Hired Her)
Discussion: omis.me
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
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Discussion: Riptide 2.0
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Aggregator Daylife Looks Beyond News Sites To Social Media For Growth
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:
Television: The Killer Music Platform
Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Creditor Proposal Expected Friday
Discussion: Romenesko
 Earlier Picks: 
Joe Pompeo / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet The Old-Media Vets Staffing A Former Newsweek President's Three …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter Online
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Press Clips: Mediaite Loses Foot Soldier Glynnis MacNicol to Business Insider
Discussion: Gawker
Emma Hall / AdAge:
Russian Billionaire Will Launch U.K. Newspaper i Next Week
Bloomberg:
Washington Times Creditors File Bankruptcy Petition on Newspaper Company
Discussion: Bloomberg and Das Krapital
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying
Discussion: The Next Web and MediaPost
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
MuckRock makes FOIA requests easy, but will reporters use it?