Mediagazer: For Fox News, Most Viewers Ever for a Midterm Election (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Dish Exec: Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry — Hulu users would wait a lot longer to catch up on their favorite shows, if Dish Network VP of Online Content Development and Strategy Bruce Eisen had his way. “If I can watch Glee tomorrow morning and I don't have to pay a pay TV service …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian Flips iPhone App To Subscription Model, Except In U.S. — We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment. — Now the paper says it is introducing a new app, due in December …

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

For Fox News, Most Viewers Ever for a Midterm Election — Television reporters covering Rand Paul's election night victory party in Bowling Green, Ky. — As a Republican wave swept across the United States on Tuesday, the Fox News Channel drew the biggest midterm election audience in its history.

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Regina McCombs / Mobile Media:
The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile

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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Behind The Scenes of CNN's Election Tech: iPads, Magic Walls, Holograms, Twitter

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

“I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard.” ABC News and Andrew Breitbart. — Wake up, journalists. You have no magic exemption from the requirements of political maturity. There are people out there who seek your destruction, and they are not evenly distributed.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp. Puts Myspace on Double Secret Probation — That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That's all fine and good. — But the troubled Web property is a...really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Brokaw: 'There's Always a Reason to Turn Over a Rock & Find Out What's Under it — It's been six years since Tom Brokaw stepped down as anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” but he's just as committed to journalism as he ever was. — When I spoke with him by phone last week …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Time Inc. Can't Wait For Google's Tablets — It's become standard issue for media executives to praise the iPad during public events. Today Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes added a twist, by taking time to talk up tablets made by people other than Apple. — Here are Bewkes's prepared remarks from Time Warner's earnings call this morning:

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Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

“Saving money by being open”: Mike Bracken discussing innovation at The Guardian — At the risk of writing a blog post that looks like some very public sucking up to my boss...erm...you really should read the presentation my boss Mike Bracken gave to the Gartner 2010 Symposium in Orlando.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of Kindle Singles — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Maybe the newspaper is like the old LP — you know, as in “Long Play.”

The Irish Times:

Sarkozy had ‘surveillance unit spy on journalists’ — FRANCE'S SOCIALIST Party has called for the head of domestic intelligence to be brought before a parliamentary commission after a newspaper claimed a specialist surveillance unit had been established to spy on journalists.

Eric Wilson / New York Times:

Women's Wear Daily Is How Old? — “SO what I'm hearing is that the fashion industry is not doing very well,” said Vera Wang, a very famous designer who was wearing a body-hugging gray sweater dress under a belt trimmed with a veil of leather fringe that looked kind of like a kilt, as she took a sip of a screwdriver.

Brihendr / National Sports Journalism Center:

Daulerio: No regrets over ethical handling of Favre story — For a transcript of Tuesday's ethics discussion click here. — By BRIAN HENDRICKSON — IU National Sports Journalism Center Graduate Fellow — A.J. Daulerio says he found himself in the shadiest situation of his life this summer …

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.

Brad Stone / Business Week:

The New New Andreessen — With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker — As Silicon Valley events go, it was an irresistible draw: Marc Andreessen, Web wunderkind turned venture capitalist …

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Mike Madden / City Desk:

Politico Celebrates Politico — Around the District last night, it wasn't hard to find somewhere to go watch election returns filter in. Local Democrats gathered at Love. National Democrats, for some reason, had a fancy party downtown; second-hand reports made clear it was only the place …