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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

“Hulu for Magazines” Launching Early 2011 - But Only For Android — Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture, plans to have its digital storefront open early next year. But you won't be able to shop there if you've got an iPad. — Next Issue's initial incarnation …

Discussion: paidContent, Personal Technology, The Next Web, eMedia Vitals, Gizmodo and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Times Will Rank E-Book Best Sellers — In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing, The New York Times said on Wednesday that it would publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year. — The lists will be compiled …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Next Web and All Things Digital, more at Techmeme »

Tyler Cunningham / GTVHub.com:

Fox.com now blocking Google TV devices — Another one bites the dust. A couple of weeks ago, Fox.com was atop our list of Websites that could still be accessed on Google TV to stream full episodes of content. Well, you can go ahead and cross Fox off that list, as they are now blocking Google TV devices (see the photo above).

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, Gizmodo, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Discussion: GTVHub.com and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus — The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu's free service-but will give users the ability to use the Hulu Plus paid service.

Discussion: Co.Design

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

When Good News Is Bad News: Google Reportedly Fires Raise Leaker — Some corporate memos are confidential. — And some memos are “confidential"-meaning there's no real expectation that they'll stay within the family. — You'd assume that Eric Schmidt's memo to “Googlers” announcing big raises falls in the latter category.

Discussion: Guardian, CNNMoney.com, The Register and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Olbermann: Policy ‘Needs to Be Adapted’ to Modern Journalism — Keith Olbermann returned to his MSNBC program, “Countdown,” on Tuesday after a two-day suspension with words of thanks to viewers who supported him, including about 300,000 who signed a petition calling for his reinstatement.

Discussion: Free Press and Mediaite

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign — Tweet — The redesigned Telegraph site, which was launched today — The Telegraph is looking to recruit more multimedia staff following the redesign of its website, digital editor Edward Roussel said today.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter Plus TV Creates “Social Viewing” — Although television has become more fragmented thanks to the web, millions of people still tune in for certain shows, including the Emmys and the MTV Video Music Awards. The real-time conversation that Twitter allows makes it a perfect companion for those events …

Discussion: WebNewser

Philip M. Stone / FollowTheMedia:

The Young French Are Attracted To Paid-For Newspapers - As Long As Someone Else, Like The Taxpayer, Does The Paying — French taxpayers subsidize newspapers to the tune of some €600 million annually - a government report said it's like keeping the press in a state of …

Discussion: Guardian

Michael Oneal / Chicago Breaking Business:

Tribune judge OKs more than $40M in bonuses — The judge in Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy case approved more than $40 million in 2010 incentive bonuses for 635 operating managers and executives Wednesday. — But based on the company's projected performance through the end of the year …

Discussion: Romenesko

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Why Publishers Are Tracking The Costco v. Omega Supreme Court Case — The “first sale” doctrine in copyright law limits the rights of copyright holders to sue for infringement after they've sold their work—it allows for used and re-sale markets in books and DVDs, as well as library lending.

Discussion: IPWatchdog.com and Public Knowledge

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Martha Stewart Living's iPad App Will Influence Content For Print — Less than two weeks after Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) released its first iPad app, it has introduced a second one that serves as both a preview of what's to come and a clearer expression of its evolving approach to digital, print and TV.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Onion Strikes Comic Gold With Biden Spoofs — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has never smashed a Whac-A-Mole game in a drunken fit. He has never invoked Freedom of Information laws to find out a female federal employee's work schedule. And to the best of anyone's knowledge …

Discussion: Splitsider, New York Observer, The Awl and The Atlantic Online

Katrina vanden Heuvel / The Nation:

Math Error Skews Nation Ad Numbers In Monday's New York Times Profile — The Nation was excited to see that we'd been profiled in Monday's New York Times, in a business section feature, “Bad News for Liberals May Be Good News for A Liberal Magazine.” But we were surprised to read this:

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Sorkin talks Dealbook's changes and business journalism — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin founded the Dealbook blog and daily e-mail back in 2001, when such dissemination strategies for business news were in their infancy.

Discussion: the nytpicker, New York Observer and Romenesko

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times Editor on the ‘Beauty’ of Readers' Ignorance — Gerald Marzorati, center, with Marc Jacobs (L) and Paul Krugman. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — The New York Times cultivates an image as the preferred read of the intellectual elite, but at least one of the paper's higher-ups seems …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Consumerist and New York Observer

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Lost and Heroes producers: Hollywood still trapped in the past — Lost and Heroes seem like two compelling examples of how a vibrant online fanbase can help fuel success on television, but when Carlton Cuse (an executive producer on Lost, pictured center) and Tim Kring (the creator of Heroes …

Media Week:

The Times and Sunday Times attract 75% of online audience from UK — News International's paywall around sites for The Times and The Sunday Times has created a more affluent and more engaged digital audience, with a significantly larger UK bias than any other newspaper, according to chief marketing officer Katie Vanneck.

Discussion: Guardian

John Heilemann / New York Magazine:

Joel Klein on Rupert Murdoch, Cathleen Black, and Being a Jerk — Yesterday's announcement that schools chancellor Joel Klein was resigning, to be replaced by Cathleen Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, shocked the city. This morning John Heilemann caught up with Klein by phone …

Discussion: Capital New York, Media Decoder, Salon, Styleite and The Atlantic Online