Mediagazer: Compounding a Conflict of Interest (Arthur S. Brisbane/New York Times)

3:15 PM ET, November 7, 2010

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Pleading Sanity — At his Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart complained about the shrieking tone of cable news. Were you watching when a montage juxtaposed footage from your news show with that of Glenn Beck's? — I saw that. I was sitting at home, with my notebooks for the election …

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Report: Olbermann Was Suspended For Refusing To Apologize On Camera — Politico's Mike Allen added another layer of speculation to Keith Olbermann's sudden and indefinite suspension on Friday: Olbermann was suspended for refusing to apologize on air. From Playbook:

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John Cook / Gawker:
Olbermann 'Doesn't Answer' to NBC News Standards

Peter Preston / Guardian:

Politico isn't a newspaper. But it might be the future of print — The political news specialist employs 175 people to broadcast in print, on video and over the internet. In other words, it focuses on subject, not medium - and makes a profit doing so — Early on Wednesday morning …

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Compounding a Conflict of Interest — AS hard as it sometimes is to write a story, it can be much harder to un-write one that should never have been published. — Joe Nocera's column Oct. 9 on the new Hewlett-Packard chief executive, Léo Apotheker, was such a story …

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Deadline.com:

4TH UPDATE: New COMCAST-NBCU Organizational Structure Coming Nov. 15 — EXCLUSIVE... SATURDAY 3PM... 4TH UPDATE: More intel from our insiders, with no official confirmations. And everyone keeps emphasizing that this situation is still very fluid with a lot still undecided.

Ellen Barry / New York Times:

Russian Journalist Beaten in Moscow — MOSCOW — A journalist for the popular daily newspaper Kommersant was seriously injured Saturday morning in an attack that his editor said was probably connected to his work. — The journalist, Oleg Kashin, 30, is in a medically induced coma …

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Did Techcrunch Take Down Its Unconfirmed Google Sexual-Assault Story? — Whether it's publishing stolen business plans or breaking publicist embargoes, Techcrunch is notorious for its take-no-prisoners approach to online journalism. — But the audacious blog may have lost its nerve amid …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Election week wrap-up: Tuesday night traffic trends from some prominent politics websites — Among the victors emerging from Tuesday's midterm elections was digital news. On sites' homepages and politics sections across the web, interactive features, data-rich graphics …

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: 'Old media's' dilemma of charging for online content — Some experts agree that pay-to-read is an economic necessity, but the key is finding a price and billing plan that won't scare off readers. — Fred from high school e-mailed this week out of the blue, wondering why the …

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Dish CEO: My Kids Think I'm Crazy For Being In Pay-TV Biz — A startling admission from Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH), on his company's Q3-earnings call capped a week of high anxiety and low expectations in the media business. — Asked to assess the pressures …

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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Andrew Ross Sorkin: The man behind Dealbook — Andrew Ross Sorkin, bestselling author and acclaimed New York Times business reporter, is part of a new breed of entrepreneurial journalists. He tells Emma Barnett how technology helped him ‘own’ his beat.

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