Mediagazer: Tribune to detail bankruptcy plan, but fights loom (Reuters)

3:20 PM ET, October 24, 2010

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Candidates Running Against, and With, Cable News — When Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of the News Corporation, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association this summer, he may have given an even bigger gift to its opponents. — The Democratic Governors Association …

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Reuters:

Tribune to detail bankruptcy plan, but fights loom — Newspaper publisher Tribune Co. is expected to unveil a plan on Friday to settle billions of dollars in debts and end its two-year bankruptcy, but it still faces some potentially nasty legal fights. — The owner of the Los Angeles Times …

New York Times:

Tribune Company Ousts Randy Michaels as Chief — The Tribune Company's board of directors resolved on Friday what had been its preoccupation for most of the week: sealing the fate of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive who became a dark sideshow to his bankrupt company's financial struggles.

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New York Post:

Staff at ABC News' DC bureau is icy to ‘cold’ Christiane Amanpour — Tweet — The knives are out for Christiane Amanpour at ABC News' DC bureau. Since the ex-CNN war correspondent began anchoring “This Week” in August, she's upset some co-workers by being a “distant outsider,” sources said.

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Tom Foremski / IMHO Blog| ZDNet:

Tynt: A business built around online copy and paste — Who would think that there is a business in providing an online copy and paste service? Tynt believes that there is a very large opportunity even though it hasn't yet figured out how best to monetize it.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.

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Dwight Garner / New York Times:

Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths — The first issue of The Paris Review under its new editor, Lorin Stein, hit newsstands recently, and it's a thing of sober beauty. The issue doesn't contain many surprises — there's fiction from Sam Lipsyte, poetry from Frederick Seidel …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

OpenFile Wants to Re-Invent Local Journalism — When OpenFile founder and CEO Wilf Dinnick was still working as a foreign correspondent for CNN in the Middle East, he was summoned to the network's London office where the senior executives showed off iReport, CNN's citizen journalism project.

Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:

Hollywood's little secret: movie purgatory — Sometimes, studios change their minds about releasing a movie, even if it has already been completed. Films with big stars such as Matt Damon, John Cusack, Eddie Murphy and Mel Gibson have all been there. — ‘CASE 39’: Even though RenEe Zellweger starred …

Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:

Post's Amazon links in stories raise ethical questions — When you're reading a Post review online, click on a highlighted book title and you'll likely be directed to Amazon.com, where you can purchase it instantly. It's convenient for readers. But is it costly to credibility?

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Media Moves: Doree Shafrir to Rolling Stone — Doree Shafrir — who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the “Hipster Grifter” story during her tenure …

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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

‘South Park’ Apologizes for Lifted Material in ‘Inception’ Parody — Updated — The creators of “South Park,” the animated Comedy Central series, apologized on Friday to the creators of a Web comedy video satirizing the summer blockbuster “Inception”, following a recent episode of …

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