Mediagazer: The business of blogging — If anyone, anywhere had an opinion … (Ben Widdicombe/Financial Times)

Rupert Murdoch's Tablet Tabloid: How He Can Pull It Off — With all the frantic hiring of young talent and established editors for The Daily, News Corp.'s new tablet-only newspaper, it's clear that Rupert Murdoch is trying to create the “tabloid for smart people” that he's never quite been able to pull off in print.

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

The Daily Kill Dossier, Part 2: Another Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches — Previously, on Lost: we revealed the names of a bunch of people who fate landed in the News Corp. building to go work on Rupert Murdoch's Dharma Initiative, a daily newspaper for the iPad called The Daily.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat: Conde Nast digital chief: Murdoch's iPad newspaper “doesn't make any sense”

Ben Widdicombe / Financial Times:

The business of blogging — If anyone, anywhere had an opinion about Perez Hilton in 2004, it was that he would not be around for long. The young Cuban-American (real name Mario Armando Lavandeira), then 26, was doing yeoman work at his day job for Star magazine, a weekly gossip tabloid …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

For Newspapers, the Future Is Now: Digital Must Be First — As newspapers everywhere struggle to stay afloat and remake themselves for a web-based world, many continue to debate how much emphasis they should put on digital vs. their traditional print operations.

Discussion: Recovering Journalist and Poynter, Thanks:mathewi

Discussion: Journal Register Company and NetNewsCheck Latest

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

Rebecca Dana on Track to Edit New Newsweek's Front-of-the-Book — Rebecca Dana, a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, has been tapped to rework the front of the book at the new Newsweek once the two publications' merger has been completed, sources tell The Observer …

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Viacom Set to Appeal in YouTube Case — Viacom Inc. says a new wave of digital piracy could threaten the U.S. media business unless federal courts overturn its defeat in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing site. — The New York-based owner of MTV …

Discussion: Search Engine Land

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

Gossip Columnists George Rush & Joanna Molloy Suing MTV Over ‘Downtown Girls’ — George Rush and Joanna Molloy, who wrote their eponymous gossip column for the New York Daily News for 15 years, have filed a $30,000+ breach-of-contract lawsuit against MTV, VH1, their parent Viacom …

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Hearst hungry for French deal — Tweet — Lagardere Active, the Paris-based media conglomerate that owns the US editions of Elle and Woman's Day, confirmed yesterday it wants to unload its non-French magazine holdings. — Hearst Corp., sources said, is the front-runner to do a deal.

Discussion: ClickZ and Media Buyer Planner

Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent:UK, Press Gazette, Canadian Magazines, Gawker and FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Oprah Winfrey Channel Gears Up for Its Debut — IN a one-minute ad that starts Friday in movie theaters across the country, the voice of the Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am calls out to dreamers, believers and “tomorrow leaders.” — Add to Portfolio — Then, looking positively radiant …

Reuters:

Time Warner's Bewkes skeptical of Netflix plan — (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes questioned whether Netflix Inc's current business model of paying top dollar for rights to stream movies and TV shows over the Internet is sustainable in the long-term.

Discussion: Company Town

Discussion: GigaOM

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Three Questions to Ask About Barry Diller's Move — So Barry Diller is out as CEO of IAC. This even though the company's share price is up more than 47 percent over the last 12 months. You don't have to be Grigory Perelman to realize there are some missing variables in this equation.

Discussion: IAC - Media Room, BtoB Magazine, Gawker, New York Observer and TechCrunch

John C Abell / Epicenter:

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Do: ‘Objectivity’ in the Age of the Internet — Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64). Used via Wikipedia. — Alan Mutter, a media critic who is both wise and smart, has pointed to the elephant in the room: journalists aren't objective.

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Arianna Huffington criticizes the media world's swinging dicks — Arianna Huffington, who created the massively popular news site Huffington Post, closed out Business Insider's Ignition conference today by taking a swipe at the earlier comments. — “You guys are all about who has the biggest swinging dick,” Huffington said.

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Poynter

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Primetime Netflix — Tweet — Netflix is making an aggressive play for in-season episodes of hit TV shows to expand its Web streaming service. — The company is in talks with studios about gaining access to current episodes of primetime shows and is willing to pay between $70,000 …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Mashable!, New York Magazine, paidContent, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Online Video News, TVbytheNumbers, The Consumerist, Gizmodo and The Atlantic Online

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Robust ad recovery bypassed newspapers — Newspaper advertising revenues continued sinking in the third quarter of this year despite a robust recovery that has fueled healthy gains in all - not some, but all - of the other competing media. — While television, radio …

Discussion: Newspaper Association … and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Boxee CEO To Big Media: “Resistance Is Futile” — With all the new Internet TV boxes and services sprouting this holiday season—from Google TV and Apple TV to the Boxee Box, Shufflr, and beyond—there is a lot talk about people cutting their cable cords and just getting all of their TV from the Internet.

Om Malik / GigaOMtech:

Flipboard: Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising … As traditional publishers struggle to find new business models centered on the iPad and other tablets, Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company.

Discussion: paidContent and TeleRead

Discussion: Business Week, ReadWriteWeb, Folio, Lost Remote and Publishing Executive News

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

Web Companies: No Need to Panic About ‘Do Not Track’ — The digital community doesn't need to worry about a “Do Not Track” list sitting on a bureaucratic server—as long as Web publishers, social and ad networks and others get serious about putting in place consumer opt-in or opt-out mechanisms.

Thanks:rawmeet

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

WP columnist Robinson named to Pulitzer Prize board — Romenesko Misc. — News release — Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Columnist, Joins Pulitzer Prize Board — New York, NY (Dec.2, 2010) - Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor at The Washington Post …