Mediagazer: Felix Salmon takes a blogging fellowship at CJR, has no problem … (Laura McGann/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:25 PM ET, November 2, 2010

Top News:

It's election night: Here's what some news orgs (old & new) have planned — It's election day in the United States, and with election day comes election day coverage. With more media players than ever aiming for their own slice of the audience, here are a few highlights of what they've got planned …

Discussion: YouTube Blog, The Nation, ReadWriteWeb, CJR, Mashable!, newsfeed.time.com, City Room and App Advice, more at Techmeme »

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The NYTimes.com Goes Live Tonight with Video News and Commentary, a First — Will Frank Rich beat Keith Olbermann in tonight's ratings around the election returns? Probably not, but in a first, The New York Times is going live from its newsroom with reports and commentary on the mid-term election.

Discussion: New York Times and The Atlantic Wire

The Media Desk / Media Decoder:

Election Night: Live Blogging the Media Coverage — With issues like health care and the dismal economy on most voters' minds and the emergence of the Tea Party and new political personalities like Carly Fiorina and Christine O'Donnell, tonight's midterm election results are being covered …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
So, How Do Networks Decide to Call a Race?

Discussion: WebNewser

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

It's Official: News Corp.'s Paywalls Are a Bust — After months of speculation about the impact of reader paywalls at two News Corp. newspapers in Britain — the Times and the Sunday Times — the media giant finally released some official numbers today, and they don't paint a very pretty picture.

Discussion: BBC, Felix Salmon, Guardian, The Next Web, New York Observer, Boing Boing, paidContent:UK and Jon Slattery, Thanks:mathewi

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

News International publishes paywall figures, claims 105,000 online customers — Tweet — News International has released its first figures for subscriptions to the Times and Sunday Times websites since introducing a paywall to the sites five months ago.

Discussion: Guardian, paidContent, TechCrunch, BBC, blogs.independent.co.uk, New York Times, Beehive City, paidContent:UK, Techdirt, Wired.co.uk, SAI, Telegraph, Associated Press, THINQ.co.uk, Jon Slattery and Media News

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Felix Salmon takes a blogging fellowship at CJR, has no problem annoying funder, Pete Peterson — Felix Salmon, who blogs on economics for Reuters, is heading to Columbia Journalism Review — sort of. Salmon has signed on to a part-time fellowship covering, as CJR puts it …

Discussion: Romenesko, Felix Salmon and Talking Biz News

Dean Starkman / CJR:

Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review's New Peterson Fellow — Will blog about media coverage of fiscal and economic policy — Felix Salmon, the finance blogger for Reuters and a leading voice on financial and economic issues, has been appointed the Columbia Journalism Review's …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

ABC News cuts ties with Breitbart on election day — Andrew Breitbart will not be a part of ABC News' election coverage on Tuesday night. That goes for television, online, or any combination of the two. — Andrew Morse, executive producer of ABC News Digital, informed Breitbart on Tuesday …

Discussion: Romenesko, ABC News' Press Room, Media Decoder, Mediaite, The Politico, Washington Wire, The Daily Caller, The Informer and Big Journalism

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Breitbart, ABC News spar over his election night role

Discussion: Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Salon, FrumForum and Romenesko

CJR:

Escape the Silos — How the press can help rebuild the American conversation — In his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, A. J. Liebling takes many a detour on his way to explaining that state, and in one of them he talks food. Specifically, he asks why food is so great in New Orleans and so bad sixty miles or so to the north.

Ian Shapira / Post Now:

Washington Times sold to former execs — A group of fired Washington Times executives, led by the paper's founder and Unification Church patriarch Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has purchased the 28-year-old conservative newspaper from Moon's eldest son, saving it from a shutdown, according to a Times source.

Discussion: Romenesko and The Politico

Larry Kramer / American Journalism Review:

Navigating the Future — While nostalgia may nudge some of us to see the news media's present financial crisis as the chaotic collapse of a once great, solid and rational system, the truth is that the old business models that paid for traditional media were always jury-rigged …

Discussion: C-Scape

Erik Wemple / TBD All News:

Washington Post close on new hyperlocal sites — There's a new survey out from the Washington Post, and it fills out a pretty detailed picture of what the region's largest news provider has in mind for the Internet. One of the questions: — “Please rate your level of interest in accessing …

Discussion: Romenesko

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

O'Donnell receives most coverage of 2010 candidates — Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't get too much national media coverage before upsetting the Republican establishment and winning the Delaware primary in September. But since then, O'Donnell's been all over the news …