Mediagazer: Sarkozy had ‘surveillance unit spy on journalists’ (The Irish Times)

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 enjoyed its biggest midterm election audience ever.

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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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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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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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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Andrew Breitbart Says ABC ‘Humiliated’ Him, ‘Damaged’ His Brand — Under pressure from groups like Media Matters and Color of Change, ABC News first scaled back, and then canceled, Andrew Breitbart's planned participation in its Election Day coverage.

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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.

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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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 …

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.

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 …

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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.

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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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 …

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.