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2:40 PM ET, November 11, 2010

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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 will only work …
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 …
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 …
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Nick Summers / New York Observer:   Newsweek Editor Search Continues Fitfully
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: MediaPost, GTVHub.com and GigaOM
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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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Digg Blog and The Next Web
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.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
CEO Expects TV Networks To Block Boxee Box, Plans Payment Platform To Win Them Over
Discussion: Mediaite and Co.Design
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: Crave, TVB and Editors Weblog
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.
Discussion: WebNewser
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
What's Former NBC Chief Jeff Zucker Doing at AOL?  —  Does Jeff Zucker have mail?  Image by Getty Images via @daylife  —  Former NBC Universal chairman Jeff Zucker is newly back on the job market, so any visits he makes to the offices of other media companies are bound to attract attention …
Discussion: The Wire and Moneywood
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Social Books Hopes to Make E-Reading Communal  —  Outside of a book club, reading a book is a pretty solitary affair.  Two entrepreneurs, Jason Johnson and Jason Illian, are trying to change that with a new mobile application called Social Books.  —  “Short-form content on the Web is very interactive, very dynamic,” Mr. Johnson said.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch, And Other Huge Names Are Betting On Art.sy To Shake Up The Art Market  —  Some of the biggest names in the technology, media, and fine art worlds are coming together to invest in Art.sy, a New York-based startup that aims to disrupt the fine-art market, we hear.
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
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
AOL Restructuring Media Brands  —  AOL is currently re-organizing its media brands, a source familiar with the situation tells us, confirming rumors.  —  The restructuring is not a layoff.  —  Headcount at AOL media properties should remain the same, though some people may be replaced by others.
Discussion: The Wire
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
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.
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:
Discussion: Gawker
 
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
When Good News Is Bad News: Google Reportedly Fires Raise Leaker
Michael Oneal / Chicago Breaking Business:
Tribune judge OKs more than $40M in bonuses
Discussion: Romenesko
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Lost and Heroes producers: Hollywood still trapped in the past
Jeff Israely / Nieman Journalism Lab:
An idea and a brand come together as Worldcrunch
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter Plus TV Creates “Social Viewing”
Discussion: WebNewser
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Sorkin talks Dealbook's changes and business journalism
Discussion: Poynter Online and Yahoo! News
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Media Week:
The Times and Sunday Times attract 75% of online audience from UK
Discussion: Guardian
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
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ROSS KENNETH URKEN / New York | Guest of a Guest:
Blogging Makes Joan Didion Uncomfortable
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
Some Stories are “Un-Webbable”  —  The Washington Post's Mark Luckie …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Talking Points Memo's first developer talks startup life …
Amy Garmer / KnightComm:
Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action
Discussion: KnightBlog
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor on the ‘Beauty’ of Readers' Ignorance
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
ESPN's Skipper: iPad is not print's savior