Mediagazer: Will Keith Olbermann Return to MSNBC? (Chris Ariens/mediabistro.com)

3:02 AM ET, November 6, 2010

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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

USN&WR: ‘December issue will be our last printed monthly sent to subscribers’ — Memo to US News & World Report employees — RE: Completing Our Shift to the Digital World — Colleagues, We're finally ready to complete our transition to a predominantly digital publishing model with selected, single-topic print issues.

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Betsy Rothstein / mediabistro.com:

Brady Out at TBD — FishbowlDC has learned that Jim Brady, the former Washingtonpost.com editor who runs TBD, has told colleagues he's out at the new startup. Here is what we know. Brady told colleagues late today...We hear Publisher Robert Allbritton is planning to grow the company …

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Steve Myers / Poynter Online:

Jim Brady: Multiple, minor disagreements led to TBD resignation — Jim Brady said Friday evening that he stepped down as the head of TBD, the upstart Washington, D.C. news site, because he and Robert Allbritton, chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, “had some …

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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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Chris Ariens / mediabistro.com:

Will Keith Olbermann Return to MSNBC? — Add Keith Olbermann to the list of MSNBC hosts suspended for things they've said, done, or in Olbermann's case, not done. He failed to tell his boss he was planning to donate money to the campaigns of three democratic congressmen.

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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Did the Post's Election Twitter Experiment Work? — On election night, the Washington Post bought one of Twitter's “promoted trends.” When users clicked the trend, #Election, Post content got top billing. It marked the first time that a media company had purchased a promoted trend …

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How News Organizations Are Generating Revenue From Social Media — Do you like this story? — Though social media has proved itself an effective tool in helping journalists gather news and connect with their communities, a pervading question among the skeptics still remains: Where's the money?

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Michelle Castillo / Time:

Exclusive: Cooks Source Writer Marvels at the ‘Nerd Rage,’ Keeps Waiting For That Apology — It was the cry of plagiarism heard 'round the web world on Thursday - the tale of a writer who says she found her work repurposed in a magazine without her permission and who, when she demanded compensation …

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Cooks Source, Sunderland magazine that started Internet firestorm …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Essence editor-in-chief is exiting — Tweet — Angela Burt-Murray is out as editor-in-chief of Essence, the Time Inc.-owned fashion magazine for African American women, after five years at the helm. — She told staffers at a 4:30 p.m. meeting today that she is relocating to Atlanta with her family.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Watch Free, Live Broadcast TV on Your iPad, Right Now — The broadcast networks only put their stuff on the Web under very specific conditions. So this is exactly what they don't want: Free, live streams of their stuff delivered to your iPad, via the browser.

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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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David Kaplan / paidContent:

Thrillist Looks To Build Presence On ESPN, HuffPo Sites — Men's lifestyle and entertainment guide Thrillist is looking beyond its primary e-newsletter business by hooking up with the city-specific sites that Huffington Post and ESPN (NYSE: DIS) have launched over the past year.