Mediagazer: New York Times re-structures its web newsroom (Joe Pompeo/Yahoo! News)

2:50 PM ET, November 16, 2010

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Sasha Frere-Jones, New Yorker's Music Critic, Moves To News Corp.'s iPad Newspaper — Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at The New Yorker, will become the culture editor of The Daily, News Corporation's so-called iPad newspaper which is currently in development, according to two people involved …

Discussion: Gawker, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Ben Smith / The Politico:

2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea — Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner of stealing their idea for the powerhouse liberal website Huffington Post. — Peter Daou and James Boyce charge that Huffington and partner Ken Lerer designed …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New York Times re-structures its web newsroom — The New York Times announced a re-organization of its web newsroom today. — Web producers will now report directly to their respective desks. Digital editor Jim Roberts has been named assistant managing editor for news …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

EXCLUSIVE: Do Online Viewers Watch Less TV? New Poll's Findings Might Surprise You … NEW YORK — Pay TV industry folks have heatedly debated this fall whether consumers are dropping their cable or other TV subscriptions to watch more TV content online. A new study by Nielsen …

Discussion: New York Magazine, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Sanders Tells Regulators to Block Comcast-NBC Deal — Comcast is expected to announce a new management lineup for NBC Universal as soon as Wednesday, in anticipation of completing its takeover of the company by the end of the year or early next year. — But at least one senator says strongly …

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New Forbes C.E.O. Mike Perlis weighs in on Lewis D'Vorkin's ‘content continuum’ — For the first time in nearly a century, the Forbes media empire won't be captained by someone named Forbes. — Late Monday, Forbes Media announced that it was tapping Mike Perlis, a publishing industry veteran …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
No founding family running Forbes day-to-day

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Forbes Hires SoftBank's Mike Perlis As President/CEO

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Ben Silverman's Electus Launches Online Morning Show ‘AOL Daybreak’ … NEW YORK - AOL Inc. on Monday launched a new morning video show, called AOL Daybreak, on its home page in partnership with Ben Silverman's multimedia studio Electus. — Lindsay Campbell, best known …

Discussion: New York Observer

Matthew Creamer / AdAge:

Why Tina Brown Might Not Be Crazy to Kill Newsweek.com — Awful for Newsweek Brand, but The Beast is Stronger Site if You Look Past Simple Traffic — For some time now, the best way to understand Newsweek, est. 1933, has been through the microblog Tumblr, est. 2007.

Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:
Tina Brown Postpones Her Book on the Clintons

Discussion: New York Observer, Romenesko and Yahoo! News

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Oprah Releases Mag App For The iPad; Ad Placements Are Limited And Premium — Oprah's still got her TV show and the upcoming debut of her Discovery TV network next year. But what she hasn't had is an iPad app dedicated to her Hearst-published monthly, O, The Oprah Magazine—until now.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Ethan Klapper / 10,000 Words:

How they did it: The New York Times' budget interactive — The buzz this weekend in the online journalism world was about an interactive created by The New York Times, “Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget.” The puzzle was an online companion to a story by Times reporter David Leonhardt in Sunday's Week in Review section.

Discussion: Democracy in America, Ezra Klein, Guardian and The Huffington Post

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Sam Zell to Bow Out of Tribune — Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell said Monday that he doesn't see himself having an operating role in the media company after it exits bankruptcy. — “I think when we're done with the bankruptcy process I will turn it over to whoever the creditors decide they want to run it …

Discussion: Free Press, New York Magazine and LA Observed

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Finally Snares Beatles — Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog. — Apple Inc. is preparing to disclose that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation …

James Robinson / Guardian:

NoW boss: quality press sneers at working class — Managing editor Bill Akass claims upmarket papers have snobbish attitude towards readers of ‘tabloid tittle-tattle’ — A senior News of the World executive last night accused upmarket papers of “sneering at the working class” …

Stephen Walker / VentureBeat:

How much is online-media baron Demand Media really worth? — With online media company Demand Media likely to price its IPO within a matter of days, I thought it was a good time to analyze how the company is likely to be valued in the public markets. I have to admit, when I first looked …