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Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Keith Olbermann SUSPENDED From MSNBC Indefinitely Without Pay — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … MSNBC president Phil Griffin released the following statement Friday following the news that Keith Olbermann had donated to three Democratic candidates this election cycle:
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msnbc.com, Mediaite, The Politico, The Wire, CBS News and parislemon
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC facing news blackout as journalists strike over pensions — Programmes including evening bulletins, Newsnight and Radio 4's Today will be affected during tomorrow's 48-hour walkout — The BBC faces a news blackout tomorrow across its main TV and radio news programmes, including Radio 4's Today …
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BBC Press Office, About the BBC blog feed, CJR, BBC, Virtual Economics, Jon Slattery, Editors Weblog and NPR Topics
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Scott Bicheno / HEXUS.channel:
BBC hacks go on strike, will anyone notice? — You've lost the news! — The austerity measures being undertaken by the government which, barring disputes over the extent and timing, are universally accepted as inevitable, were always expected to precipitate industrial action.
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Guardian, Thanks:scottbicheno
Wall Street Journal:
Group Plans New Venture to Challenge WikiLeaks — Former Staffers to Take Roles in Rival Document-Sharing Initiative — WikiLeaks, the document-leaking website that has come under intense pressure after publishing classified U.S. military documents, is facing a new challenge: competition.
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THINQ.co.uk, News Desk and SAI
Sam Grobart / Gadgetwise:
Long-Form Journalism Finds an Online Friend — Anyone who's spent time writing for the Web knows the basic rule: Keep it short. Attention spans, we are told, are collapsing faster than pig houses on Angry Birds. At this rate, municipalities won't just fluoridate their city water supply, they'll have to Ritalinize it as well.
Pekka Pekkala / Online Journalism Review:
The top 10 key lessons for hyperlocal journalism startups from ONA10 — By Pekka Pekkala: If you are dreaming about your own news site, you are not alone: hyperlocal sites are popping up everywhere. At ONA10 last week in Washington, D.C., veterans of the hyperlocal scene shared they experiences, both successes and failures.
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
New Surveys Say Publishers Expect Mobile To Pay Off Big Within Two Years — ABC: Just 19 percent of publishers are satisfied with Apple's model. — Two new publishing surveys predict rapid revenue growth for mobile apps in the next few years, although one shows most publishers rejecting the switch to an all-digital format.
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Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
ABCi: Publishers say paid content, ads part of mobile revenue strategy
ABCi: Publishers say paid content, ads part of mobile revenue strategy
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accessabc.com, accessabc.ca and paidContent
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The six-figure fan club: How Global Post got 100,000 fans on Facebook — GlobalPost, the online-only foreign news outlet, has over 100,000 fans on Facebook. (As of this writing: 104,180.) While, sure, that's far fewer fans than some of the bigger, more established publications out there …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Sans Newsweek, WaPo Publishing Revs Gain Modestly; Online Surges — The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company's publishing division looked pretty good without Newsweek in Q3. The magazine, which counted as an $11.5 million loss in the discontinued operations column, was sold …
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New York Observer and WebNewser
Robert Klara / Mediaweek:
New York Post's Weiss Defects to DNAinfo.com — The New York Post will have to do without the reporter famed for breaking stories on a planned mafia hit on Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's hitting on hookers at the Emperor's Club. Investigative reporter Murray Weiss …
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Runnin' Scared
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Suit spills Fox News D.C. salary scale — Fox News's response to a federal government lawsuit charging the network with retaliating against a reporter who complained of age and gender discrimination is putting Fox's D.C. salary scale and basic contract terms for on-air talent on the public record.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
DailyCandy Editor Janet Ozzard Out After 8 Months — Anyone want to run DailyCandy? The influential shopping newsletter needs a new editor in chief: Janet Ozzard, the New York Magazine veteran brought in to run the place in March, is out. DailyCandy confirms that Ozzard's last day was Tuesday …
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New York Observer
Hunter Walker / New York Observer:
Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Doesn't Need You To Read His Magazine — On Oct. 28, Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets, threw a lavish launch party in Chelsea to celebrate the arrival of Snob magazine in New York. The event was complete with foie gras and a performance by jazz songstress Cassandra Wilson.
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Forbes
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Analyst: Howard Stern's Decision Doesn't Impact Sirius … With apologies to the Clash — a band heard frequently on Sirius XM's '80s channels — should he stay or should he go? — We're talking about Howard Stern, and Sirius XM may or may not update Wall Street during its earnings call Thursday …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Bloglines Will Be Resurrected By IAC-Funded MerchantCircle — The saga continues. After informing us in September that the IAC-owned Bloglines was to be shut down permanently, Ask.com (the IAC property that operates Bloglines) has resurrected the troubled RSS feeder, the company tells TechCrunch exclusively.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Hulu Plus Opens to All, No Invite Needed — Hulu Plus, the premium version of online video hub Hulu, has now opened its doors to all interested users, according to a post this morning on the company's corporate blog. — Says Rob Wong, Director of Product for Hulu, users no longer need an invitation to sign up for Hulu Plus.
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Faster Forward, BGR, Business Wire and msnbc.com
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
How Facebook and Twitter Are Replacing Blogging — It's hard to recall these days, now that most bloggers are corporate drones (*cough*), but blogging was originally the pursuit of hobbyists. And now a lot of those hobbyists appear to be giving it up, or at least cutting back …
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