Mediagazer: Close Read: How WSJ Went to Bat for Murdoch's BSkyB Deal (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

8:00 PM ET, November 5, 2010

Top News:

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.

Discussion: BuzzMachine, Inside Cable News, mediabistro.com and WebNewser

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 …

Discussion: TBD All News, paidContent, Romenesko and Washington Post

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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Union-News:

Cooks Source, Sunderland magazine that started Internet firestorm, lifted material from NPR, Food Network — A small, free magazine based in Sunderland had the whole Internet turn against it yesterday, sparking a crowdsourced copyright investigation on the Web today.

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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 …

Discussion: SAI and Twitter Media

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.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

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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Scott Bicheno / HEXUS.channel:
BBC hacks go on strike, will anyone notice?

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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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Anna Baskin / AdAge:

Prokhorov's Snob Magazine Seeks Conversation Among ‘Global Russians’ — But Commenting on the Website Costs Extra — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's risky enough to introduce a print magazine while the economy is stalled and the web is still rearranging the media business.

Hunter Walker / New York Observer:
Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Doesn't Need You To Read His Magazine

Discussion: Forbes

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.

Discussion: THINQ.co.uk, News Desk, Techdirt, main page collection and SAI

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 …

Discussion: New York Observer

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.

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Close Read: How WSJ Went to Bat for Murdoch's BSkyB Deal — Consolidation of media ownership is always going to be a fraught issue for The Wall Street Journal, especially when that ownership is being consolidated in the hands of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, the paper's owner.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Julia Boorstin / CNBC:

CBS Is ‘Firing On All Cylinders’ Now — After being bashed for being too dependent on advertising, now CBS is benefiting from its share of the ad market — advertising is back, up 10 percent in the quarter. — At the 28 TV stations and 130 radio stations owned by CBS ad revenue grew a whopping 25 percent.