Mediagazer: On the Media: Larry King prepares for final CNN show (James Rainey/Los Angeles Times)

12:30 PM ET, November 13, 2010

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Dan Crowley / GazetteNET:

Cooks Source publisher admits mistake, describes struggles with copyright issue — SUNDERLAND - The publisher of Cooks Source magazine says she was wrong to run another author's work without permission last month and that mistake has put the publication in jeopardy, rattled advertisers …

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

New Details Emerge on Newsweek-Beast Merger — Tina Brown met separately with the staffs of The Daily Beast and Newsweek today, just hours after a merger between the two very different publications was completed. Details of the combined entity, to be known officially as The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, are beginning to emerge.

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Inside the New Beast — As The Daily Beast and Newsweek combine …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Newsweek CEO First Casualty of Deal with Daily Beast

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The Atlantic Online:

How TPM Got Started — Over the years, I've become increasingly convinced that when all is said and done, the significant aspect of my journalism career won't be anything I've written, but the fact that I was present at the creation of Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall's pioneering blog.

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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Larry King prepares for final CNN show — Larry King dines at Nate n' Al in Beverly Hills almost every day. Here King is with friend Sid Young, left, while King's son Cannon, 10, waits for his breakfast. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times / November 11, 2010)

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Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Piers Morgan must be the anti-Larry King

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Chat Replay: Can You Judge Wired by its Covers (and Coverage) of Women & Tech? — In an open letter to Wired this week, reader Cindy Royal criticized the magazine for featuring a cover image of a woman's cleavage for a story about breast tissue regeneration.

Discussion: Romenesko, BlogPost, The Huffington Post and Change The Ratio

Washington Post:

Melinda French Gates Leaves the Board of The Washington Post Company — Companies: — WASHINGTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO - News) announced that Melinda French Gates has stepped down from the Company's Board of Directors. The Company's board now has 11 members.

Hillary Busis / Mediaite:

Did NY Mag Rush Their James Frey Feature Online Only After Learning Of WSJ Scoop? — Readers of both NYMag.com and the Wall Street Journal's website may have noticed that in the wee small hours of the morning, both publications posted similar but competing articles about author James Frey …

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Suzanne Mozes / New York Magazine:
James Frey's Fiction Factory

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Telegraph:

How Britain and the web are changing American journalism — Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington DC. You can read more about Toby here. His email is toby.harnden@telegraph-usa.com and he is @tobyharnden on Twitter. — How Britain and the web are changing stuffy American journalism

Wall Street Journal:

Comcast to Reorganize, Streamline Executive Suite at NBC Universal — Comcast Corp.'s chief operating officer Steve Burke plans to announce a major reorganization of NBC Universal as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing in some new talent while expanding the role of several existing executives.

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Ted Koppel / Washington Post:

Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news — To witness Keith Olbermann - the most opinionated among MSNBC's left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts - suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidates seemed like a whimsical …

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Amy Gahran / Knight Digital Media Center All-Site Feed:

For live coverage, does your content management system “play nice with others?” — For breaking news or high-profile ongoing coverage, it helps to be able to quickly present news no matter how it arrives. But at many established news organizations, their content management systems don't make this easy.

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

As Funding Talk Swirls, Tumblr Lands A Director Of Product — Earlier today, a Business Insider report indicated that Tumblr has landed a “very big and competitive” new round of funding from Sequoia Capital. We're still looking into that, and they're not commenting, but here's one thing …

Discussion: VatorNews and New York Observer