Mediagazer: Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era (Roy Greenslade/This Is London)

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Exclusive: Mike Lang, Post-News Corp., to Be Named Miramax CEO — Mike Lang, a leading business-development executive who recently left News Corp. and had a previous life at Disney, is set to be named CEO of the newly purchased Miramax, TheWrap has learned.

Discussion: paidContent, Company Town and New York Magazine

David Johnson / D@J:

Dropping a bomb in the tenure meeting — So our Journalism Division faculty met today on creating new guidelines about merit and tenure. And, always the troublemaker, I dropped the bomb on the discussion. Tenure, as practiced and preached doesn't make sense to me.

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Subtraction.com:

My iPad Magazine Stand — Because I recently left a job at one of the most prominent publications in the world, people often ask me about my opinions on the cavalcade of publications rushing to the iPad — those apps designed and developed by newspapers and magazines principally to deliver …

Discussion: GigaOM, Brooks in Beta, Grids and Media Buyer Planner

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Statutory Realignment at Tribune Company — Not long after Sam Zell, the real estate mogul, took over the Tribune Company, he installed a sculpture in the headquarters lobby titled “Bureaucratic Shuffle,” a six-legged man going in circles and nowhere fast.

Discussion: Online Journalism Review, Chicago Reader, New York Observer, LA Observed, DealBook and The Huffington Post

Ben Elowitz / paidContent:

SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’ — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and the Econsultancy blog

Sue Zeidler / Reuters:

Cable, technology, media firms form digital registry — (Reuters) - Major studios, cable and technology companies on Wednesday announced the launch of an Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to track movies, TV shows and other assets much the way books are coded.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Find the Google Chrome App Store: Wait Till December — You probably haven't heard of it, and you're very unlikely to be looking for it. But if you are wondering when you might see the Chrome app store Google is working on, here's the answer: December. Probably.

Boris Kachka / New York Magazine:

Sterling's Gold: How Mad Men's Fake Memoir Became the Real Deal — Roger Sterling's divine folly-autobiography Sterling's Gold is now a real book coming out from Grove/Atlantic just in time for the holidays. So, as high-roller Sterling might have advised, we took our questions …

Discussion: GalleyCat, PopEater, BlogPost, kottke.org and Boing Boing

Nate Freeman / New York Observer:

On Cusp of Expansion, WSJ. Magazine Brings In New Publisher — With its last Tina Gaudoin-helmed issue currently on newsstands, WSJ. Magazine has brought in Andrew Cenname to become publisher of The Journal's glossy, Dow Jones announced in a statement. Cenname had previously …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and MediaPost

Roy Greenslade / This Is London:

Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era — Journalists, so surveys regularly reveal, are not trusted by the majority of the people they affect to serve. — In the public estimation of our worth, we rank alongside politicians and estate agents.

Discussion: Guardian

Jason Deans / Guardian:

Bronwen Maddox to become chief executive and editor of Prospect — The Times chief foreign commentator to leave newspaper for role at monthly current affairs magazine — Bronwen Maddox is leaving the Times after 14 years to become chief executive and editor of current affairs magazine Prospect.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Rejects Cablevision Offer — Updated With only a few hours before the World Series begins on Fox, Cablevision said Wednesday afternoon that it had put a new offer on the negotiating table to end it's dispute with News Corporation over retransmission fees.

Discussion: Company Town, MediaPost, B&C, Broadcasting & Cable, TVWeek.com, rbr.com, Media Money …, Moneywood, Multichannel, American Cable Association, The Wrap, Stop Big Media News and New York Times, via:themediaisdying

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Hires Ross Levinsohn To Run Americas Business — Yahoo has hired Ross Levinsohn, the former President of Fox Interactive Media, as EVP America's Region, we've confirmed. AllThingsD first broke the news that he was close to taking the job. — Levinsohn will replace Hillary Schneider.

Discussion: BoomTown, Media News International, paidContent and SAI

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Spotify's Real News: No News! But Big Bags of Cash Might Help — Nope. Apple's not buying Spotify. — Now, on to real news: There is no official news about the streaming music service's attempt to land on U.S. shores. Spotify has yet to land a single U.S. label deal …

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Barry Diller On The Daily Beast: “Breaking Even Is Not On Some Distant Shore” — The Daily Beast will have a print component at some point and is getting closer to breaking even, Barry Diller, chairman of the website's parent company, IAC, said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday morning.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, coverawards.com, Mixed Media and Gawker

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
IAC Says It Wants To Launch A Print ‘Companion’ To The Daily Beast

Discussion: The Next Web