Mediagazer: An Old Industry Name Signals a Shift Into a New Era (Stuart Elliott/New York Times)

David Carr / New York Times:

A News Corp. Newspaper, but Not in Print — People who own an iPad will tell you it makes everything look sexier. Maybe even a newspaper. — Rupert Murdoch, an old-timey newspaper romantic, has nonetheless deputized himself as the digital savior of paid content.

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Murdoch to launch ‘iNewspaper’ this month — News Corp reportedly set to launch iPad news publication exclusively via download — Rusbridger warns of ‘chilling effect’ of News Corp's bid for BSkyB — Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple …

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

What Should An iPad Newspaper Look Like? — News Corp is taking the iPad very seriously as a new way to distribute the news. The media giant is taking it so seriously that it is developing a new publication called the Daily which will only be available on the iPad (no print edition, no Website).

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, BFF? — Not likely. One is a life-long Democrat. The other runs a right-wing media empire. — Murdoch. Credit: World Economic Forum — The Sunday Guardian, borrowing a phrase and most of its facts from a Woman's Wear Daily piece posted three days earlier …

Discussion: Technically Incorrect

Horace Dediu / asymco: The integrated iPad news daily: Read all about it!

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

A Movie Critic Loses Her Screening Privileges (But Gets 'Em Back) — LOS ANGELES — Was it something I said? — Debbie Schlussel, the Michigan-based blogger and movie critic, was left to wonder whether she had offended the powers at Paramount Pictures when she learned last month …

Discussion: Debbie Schlussel

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Gawker loses round with Sarah Palin — A federal judge on Saturday ordered the website Gawker to pull down unauthorized excerpts from Sarah Palin's forthcoming book, “America By Heart,” until a hearing scheduled for Nov. 30. — On Saturday evening, the link was broken to Gawker's scoop …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Media Decoder, Gothamist, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, On Media's Blog, CNET News and Hot Air

Discussion: MediaMemo, CNN and Associated Press

James Robinson / Guardian:

UK papers ‘too dependent on ads’ — Book edited by Oxford University academics also claims there is no correlation between internet use and newspaper profitability — British newspapers are too dependent on advertising according to a new book edited by academics at Oxford University.

Discussion: paidContent and Editor's Blog

Andy Plesser / The Huffington Post:

Google TV's Choudhary: We “Never Intended to Replace Cable or Satellite” — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif — Google TV was never intended to replace subscriptions to cable or satellite TV, but to integrate Web video and apps with television offerings, says Google's Saluhuddin Choudhary, project manager, in this interview with Beet.TV

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Is the tech press needed anymore? (how Apple iPhone apps take off now) — Datapoint one: John Gruber is noting that Android doesn't have very many of the industry's best apps. — Datapoint two. Starbucks CIO says that he's forced to use HTML 5 to support Apple iOS users …

Discussion: SAI, Daring Fireball and Gizmodo

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

An Old Industry Name Signals a Shift Into a New Era — THE comedian Fred Allen liked to say that Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn sounded “like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs.” These days, the agency goes by BBDO, but part of its former name is being revived for a new consulting unit.

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Old Media Decides Digital Still Needs a ‘Chief’ — Time Inc., Gannett, Clear Channel and Wenner All Seek a New ‘CDO’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's a good time to be a “chief digital officer,” or at least play one inside a media organization. After a brief heyday mid-decade …

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

LeBron James Ad Asks for It — In an arty, soul-searching 90-second Nike commercial released in October, basketball star LeBron James asks repeatedly, “What should I do?” — Angry fans, in loud and blistering terms, have been telling him. — Myriad remixes and spoofs of the ad …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

Fox News ‘Nazi’ Rhetoric Starts At The Top … Fox News and NPR once again found themselves in the news Thursday, this time driven by the comments of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who in published remarks referred to NPR executives as “Nazis” for terminating the contract of news analyst Juan Williams.

Discussion: Pressthink