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8:45 AM ET, November 12, 2010

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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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Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed!  —  Some weddings take longer to plan than others.  The union of The Daily Beast and Newsweek magazine finally took place with a coffee-mug toast between all parties Tuesday evening, in a conference room atop Beast headquarters, the IAC building on Manhattan's West 18th Street.
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Newsweek and Daily Beast Have a Deal  —  Tina Brown is back in the world of print.  —  After a brief and interrupted dalliance, Newsweek, the 77-year-old magazine, and The Daily Beast, Ms. Brown's two-year-old Web site, have decided to put their cultural differences aside and will join forces.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
‘Beast’ talks on again
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign
Discussion: CNET News, FleetStreetBlues, Crave and TVB
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Adding Staff Curators Help Digg Recover?  —  Digg has had a rough time since it launched a redesign of the site several months ago; users reacted badly to the loss of certain features and the site's new focus on more “mainstream” sources of content, and the new CEO spent his first few weeks apologizing …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster
Wall Street Journal:
James Frey's Next Act  —  For James Frey, success and controversy are a package deal.  —  His 2003 debut book, “A Million Little Pieces,” was named Amazon Book of the Year and has sold eight million copies in more than 30 languages.  When it was revealed that parts of the purported memoir …
Wall Street Journal:
Valuing Facebook's Ads  —  The Site Commands 24% of Online Display Ads, but the Dollars Don't Match  —  Facebook Inc. is attracting more advertising, but marketers are still trying to figure out the value of those ads.  —  New data from comScore Inc. show that in September 24% …
Discussion: SAI and MediaPost
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.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kommons Launches Quora-Like Platform To Question Public Figures  —  Leveraging on the success of Quora, niche Q&A sites are popping up everywhere.  There's a Quora for the enterprise, and even a Quora for the legal community.  Even Facebook is throwing its hat in the ring with Facebook Questions.
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: Slate and New York Observer
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 …
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Rachel Maddow Interviews Jon Stewart  —  Right after Bill O'Reilly got a former president on his program, Rachel Maddow had a big guest of her own - Jon Stewart.  Stewart was a game guest despite clearly not feeling too well, and explained his thoughts on the Rally to Restore Sanity …
George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
iPad Users More Likely to Cut Pay TV  —  A new survey from The Diffusion Group (TDG) finds that people who own iPads or are planning to purchased one in the new few months are significantly more likely than average adult broadband users to either downgrade or cancel their pay TV services.
Discussion: MediaPost
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
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
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.
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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
AOL Restructuring Media Brands
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Philip M. Stone / FollowTheMedia:
The Young French Are Attracted To Paid-For Newspapers …
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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