Mediagazer: Driven by Fox News, News Corp. Sees 8% Profit Growth (Dylan Stableford/The Wrap)

5:30 PM ET, November 3, 2010

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Regina McCombs / Poynter Online:

The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile — I love election night. It's my favorite non-holiday night every other year. For 25 years, I spent it at someone's campaign headquarters. Working at Poynter has led to severe election withdrawal, and I was looking forward …

Discussion: Web Journalist Blog, TVNewsCheck and Media Decoder

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Behind The Scenes of CNN's Election Tech: iPads, Magic Walls, Holograms, Twitter — Walking into CNN's newsroom is like walking into Best Buy during the holidays: gigantic flat panel displays are plastered all over the hangar-like space; people are running around frantically with laptops …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
The Annals Of Election Night Analysis

Discussion: Yahoo! News and American Journalism Review

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
The NYTimes.com Goes Live Tonight with Video News and Commentary, a First

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and New York Times

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

LIVE: News Corp Earnings Call (But No Murdoch) — First look at Rupert Murdoch's latest report card: News Corp. ended the September quarter with revenue of $7.4 billion and earnings of $0.27 a share (after factoring out a one-time tax gain). That's almost exactly what the Street was looking …

Discussion: paidContent and Business Wire

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Driven by Fox News, News Corp. Sees 8% Profit Growth — News Corp. turned in its latest earnings report to investors on Wednesday, and Rupert Murdoch's sprawling media giant delivered exactly what was expected: solid profit during its 2011 fiscal first quarter — even as some of its businesses, like MySpace, continue to struggle.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

It's people! Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy editor — The phrase “on-demand human computation” has a sinister tinge to it, if only because the idea of sucking the brain power out of a group of people is generally frowned upon. And yet, if you call it “crowdsourcing” everything sounds so much friendlier!

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Rising Stars: Ten Under 30 — A look at publishing's new breed, from editors to CEOs. — While it's natural to worry about how the publishing industry is going to attract the next generation of media leaders, the fact is the industry is already seeing a demographic shift, with younger people taking on more leadership roles.

Discussion: Romenesko

New York Post:

Newsweek post yet to be filled — Tweet — Newsweek's new owner, Sidney Harman, now calls the fruitless merger talks involving Barry Diller, Tina Brown and The Daily Beast an “unfortunate dalliance” while he concedes that he is nowhere close to finding a permanent editor-in-chief.

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Ryan Nakashima / Canadian Press:

Google TV exec says broadcasters ‘misunderstand’ role of its online TV platform — LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Attempts by broadcasters to seek payment for allowing their online video to be viewed through Google Inc.'s new Web-connected TV platform represents a “misunderstanding” of what it is, a Google executive said Tuesday.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, mediabistro.com and Canadian Press

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …

Discussion: Relevant Results, The Next Web and CenterNetworks, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL's Armstrong: All About ‘Content Exits’ — AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong began the company's Q3 earnings call talking about a three-pronged strategy around distribution. That includes “communication products” like AOL mail, search, social media and its homepage, which was revamped this week.

Discussion: MediaMemo, The Digital Home, Variety, AdAge, MediaPost, Associated Press and The Wire

Ben Fritz / Company Town:

Hollywood studios grappling with when and where to release their movies on DVD, digital — For consumers already confused about when a movie goes on sale on DVD and Blu-ray versus its availability on video on demand, digital download, Netflix and Redbox rental and Netflix online streaming, life could get even more complicated.

Discussion: /Film and GigaOM

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Rap, Parlayed Into Books — Publishing Firm Launched by Duo Behind Cash Money Records — Ronald and Bryan Williams, two entrepreneurial brothers from New Orleans who run the successful music company Cash Money Records Inc., are turning their attention to the book business.

Discussion: Gawker and New York Magazine

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

What Clicks on a Big Day: The Front Page — Sure, the steady bleed of readers from print to the Web is only getting worse. But there is still no substitute for A1 the day after a big news story. — It was hard to turn on the television on Wednesday morning without seeing images …

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Why are we just doing static things?’: Burt Herman talks dynamic storytelling with Storify — Tweet — Having a social media editor in the newsroom, someone who handles the official Twitter account say, while everyone carries on as before, isn't good enough for Burt Herman.