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10:20 PM ET, October 26, 2010

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Nikesh Arora / The Official Google Blog:

$5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism — Journalism is fundamental to a functioning democracy. So as media organizations globally continue to broaden their presence online, we're eager to play our part on the technology side—experimenting with new ways of presenting news online …

Discussion: Knight Foundation, MediaMemo, Romenesko, The Evolving Newsroom, MediaFile, KnightBlog, Guardian, Mixed Media, paidContent, mediabistro.com, ReadWriteWeb, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, JNews and The Next Web

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Google donates $5 million for news innovation to Knight Foundation and new international efforts — Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a necessity of our shared democracy …

Discussion: rbr.com, SAI, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Online and The Next Web

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

NY Times reporter defends profile of WikiLeaks' Assange — New York Times reporter John F. Burns considers WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange—the subject of a front page profile he co-authored Sunday— to be “an incredibly smart man” with an “extremely high IQ.”

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, The Wire, New York Observer and FlowingData

American Journalism Review: Spreading Leaks Before WikiLeaks

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Fox Warns Cablevision: Stop Telling Customers to Steal Our Content — The nasty fight between Fox and Cablevision over fees just got nastier. — On Tuesday, Fox sent Cablevision a cease-and desist-letter demanding the company stop encouraging its customers to steal copyrighted material.

Discussion: NY Daily News, rbr.com, Media Decoder, NewTeeVee, Hillicon Valley, Media Money …, paidContent and NYConvergence.com

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Claims of Good Faith, and Bad, in Cable Dispute

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, Company Town, rbr.com, Gothamist and paidContent

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Conde Nast Magazines Can Finally Sell Their Own Websites — Most Ad Sales Handled by Conde Nast Digital and CondeNet Before That Now Belong to Publishers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast, the publisher of magazines from Vogue to The New Yorker, is integrating many of the digital operations …

Discussion: paidContent and MediaPost

Joe Marchese / MediaPost:

Is Facebook A Media Company? Is Apple? — It seems like only yesterday Google was constantly reminding everyone who would listen that Google was NOT a media company. My guess is that Google wouldn't be so adamant now, given the release of GoogleTV. But even GoogleTV doesn't automatically …

Fred Vogelstein / Epicenter: Behold, the Next Media Titans: Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Yahoo Courts Former News Corp. Digital Exec Ross Levinsohn As U.S. Head — He's baaaaaack. — Former Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn, that is, who is the top candidate to replace Hilary Schneider as Yahoo's U.S. head, according to several sources close to the situation.

Discussion: SAI

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

NPR receives threat; timing suggests link to Juan Williams firing — NPR received a bomb threat Monday, five days after its decision to fire news analyst Juan Williams sparked a hugely negative reaction. — Sources at the news organization said the threat was received via U.S. mail …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress and TBD All News

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Katie Couric, On the Move — The CBS anchor is nearing the end of her contract—and signs point surprisingly to her staying put. Howard Kurtz talks to her about her salary, her next move—and her love of the campaign trail. — Katie Couric is feeling liberated.

Discussion: TVNewser, Romenesko, Hot Air, Chickaboomer, The Wire and Gawker

Dumplings from this Panda!:

Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? — Digg recently published a blog post titled “Digg's Algorithmic Mystery Tour” on October, 15th. While a Digg blog post is a normal thing, a post about the algorithm was very surprising to me. Why did Digg, which never bothers …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Digg Blog, ReadWriteWeb and WebNewser, more at Techmeme »

Steve Myers / Poynter Online:

George Packer's 5 Tips for Reporting on Anything — The New Yorker's George Packer has written about disaffected voters in Ohio and beleaguered homeowners in Florida; the massive city of Lagos, Nigeria, and the cloistered, oppressed country of Burma. He has described the dangerous predicament …

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Observer

Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:

Martha Stewart Executives Said to Leave Amid Reorganization Under Preston — Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.'s heads of marketing, broadcast sales and digital advertising sales are leaving the company amid a reorganization under executive Sally Preston.

bojo:

Why the 100% solution feels 95% wrong — There's a little meme, fired up mostly by Jay Rosen, about something called “the 100% solution” for journalism. That is, taking a subject and covering everything about it (Rosen's example is a network of organisations and volunteers covering every single event …

Damian Roskill / Compete Pulse:

Compete.com Crack Down: Sadly this appears to be working — Here at Compete we're always looking out for new marketing and advertising techniques - and we found an interesting one recently. First, here's the homepage of Skysport.com. I click on the advertisement highlighted below:

Nielsen Wire:

Nielsen estimates 362,000 Britons behind the Times paywall — Matthew Dodd, SVP, Research & Analytics, EMEA — As newspapers grapple with monetizing their content online, a recent Nielsen study found that one in five UK visitors to the Times of London and the Sunday Times websites …

Discussion: paidContent