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8:50 PM ET, November 11, 2010

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 Top News: 
Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Observer Exclusive: Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge  —  Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer.  —  It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies.  The editorial staffs will combine under …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
‘Beast’ talks on again  —  Tweet  —  Big-name principals behind Newsweek and the Daily Beast have resumed merger talks, insiders said late today.  —  Talks between the online news firm, owned by media mogul Barry Diller and led by Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown, and Newsweek's new owner …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
5 Ways to Get People to Contribute Good Content for Your Site  —  As news organizations experiment with user-generated content, they're learning that users are capable of creating quality content that can be turned into powerful projects.  What's not as clear: How can news organizations motivate people …
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 will only work …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster  —  One of the issues Digg has always struggled with is that it can take quite a while before a breaking news story hits the front page.  Waiting for enough users to vote a story up can sometimes take a few hours and in this age of real-time breaking news …
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 …
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Mediabistro launches blog about Twitter  —  Mediabistro Launches AllTwitter Blog Covering Business and User Aspects of Twitter  —  Mediabistro (a division of WebMediaBrands Inc., Nasdaq: WEBM) has launched AllTwitter, a new blog covering news, providing tips, and supporting opinions about social media platform Twitter.
Discussion: New York Observer and Slate
Cindy Royal / Cindy's Take on Tech:
An Open Letter to Wired Magazine  —  Dear Wired:  —  I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with you.  I love you.  You're charming, attractive and smart, everything I could ever want in a magazine.  My heart skips a beat when I see a new issue in my mailbox.
Discussion: The Awl
Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
State tells man he may be jailed for releasing data  —  Information was provided by Mass.  —  Governor Deval Patrick's administration told a local website operator he could face jail time for publishing information that the state provided under an open-records request.
Discussion: Romenesko
Gabrielle Gurley / CommonWealth Magazine:
The Herald's head man  —  Q&A with Joe Sciacca, Editor-in-Chief  —  A 27-YEAR VETERAN of the Boston Herald, editor-in-chief Joe Sciacca has spent most of his career covering Massachusetts politics.  So on election night when US Rep. Barney Frank complained about the “complete political irrelevance …
Discussion: Romenesko and Media Nation
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
You Write ‘Bias Journalism’ and I Read ‘Derp’  —  First of all, you probably mean “biased.”  Second of all, journalism isn't a term that means “stories you agree with”.  Third of all, f**k you.  —  It seems like every so often the comments at Gizmodo fill up with entitled, half-witted thinkers, like a boil taut with ignorance.
Thanks:alexia
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
Can This Man Save NBC?  —  Bob Greenblatt made Showtime a must-watch network with shows like Weeds and Dexter.  Now he's expected to turn around NBC Universal Entertainment.  Peter Lauria on why he's the right man for the challenge.  —  Since leaving his post as Showtime's president …
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Felix Salmon:
The NYT's subscription strategy  —  If a gaffe is when somebody accidentally tells the truth, then Gerry Marzorati's latest comments probably count: … Marzorati went on to become positively disingenuous: … Well, no. When I pay for most things by credit card, I know exactly what I'm paying.
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
Great Scott!  Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube  —  Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute?  Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute.
Discussion: SAI, Crave and WebNewser
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Media Matters Pays $86,000 In Auction To Have Lunch With Murdoch  —  WASHINGTON — In one of the more clever moments of issue advocacy in recent memory, the progressive media watchdog group, Media Matters for America, successfully won an online auction Thursday to have a “friendly lunch” …
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Confirmed: Fox Blocking Google TV  —  Fox has begun blocking the availability of its TV programming from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV, joining ABC (NYSE: DIS), CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC (NYSE: GE) and Hulu.  —  A source at the network confirmed the move late Wednesday, but declined comment.
Discussion: GTVHub.com, MediaPost and GigaOM
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:
Yahoo News Rolls Out Beta Design: Personalization, Social, Blogs
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
New Rules for Media Ethics
Tom Scocca / Scocca:
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Social Books Hopes to Make E-Reading Communal
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
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Discussion: The Wire and Moneywood
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch, And Other Huge Names Are Betting …
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
AOL Restructuring Media Brands
Discussion: The Wire
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Philip M. Stone / FollowTheMedia:
The Young French Are Attracted To Paid-For Newspapers …
Discussion: Guardian
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Why Publishers Are Tracking The Costco v. Omega Supreme Court Case
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Olbermann: Policy ‘Needs to Be Adapted’ to Modern Journalism
Discussion: Free Press
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Martha Stewart Living's iPad App Will Influence Content For Print
Discussion: WebNewser
Katrina vanden Heuvel / The Nation:
Math Error Skews ‘Nation’ Ad Numbers In Monday's ‘New York Times’ Profile
Discussion: Gawker and MinOnline
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign
Discussion: Crave, TVB and Editors Weblog
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus