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10:55 PM ET, December 12, 2010

Top News:

Commenting Accounts Compromised — Change Your Passwords — Our user databases appear to have been compromised. The passwords were encrypted. But simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack. You should change your Gawker password and on any other sites on which you've used the same passwords.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Guardian, The Next Web, The Wrap, CNET News, New York Magazine, Neowin.net, Gothamist, The Wire and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Exclusive: ‘Gnosis’ Explains The Method And Reasoning Behind Gawker Media Hack — Over the last 24 hours Gawker Media's network of sites have been under attack from a group who have identified themselves “Gnosis,” a seemingly mysterious collective of hackers who has been falsely considered part …

Discussion: New York Times and Runnin' Scared

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Far Worse Than Previously Thought: Gawker Content Management System Hacked

Discussion: Gawker, Runnin' Scared and The Wire

EditorandPublisher.com:

No More Paywall for E&P Online — ‘E&P, tear down this wall!’ — When former President Reagan told the head of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down The Berlin Wall in 1987, he was asking for change and openness across the Eastern Bloc. — Editor & Publisher magazine wants …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Web Focus Helps Revitalize the Atlantic — WASHINGTON — How did a 153-year-old magazine — one that first published the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and gave voice to the abolitionist and transcendentalist movements — reinvent itself for the 21st century?

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:

Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App — At LeWeb yesterday, Microsoft demonstrated a pretty, new way to curate the web's information: Montage. — Montage looks and feels a lot like a glossy magazine web or tablet app. It works by allowing the user to pick …

Discussion: Neowin.net

Amanda Andrews / Telegraph:

Forbes unveils plans to launch a European title — Steve Forbes, the billionaire magazine owner and a former Republican presidential candidate, has revealed plans to launch a Forbes Europe title next year. — Forbes Media, in which Elevation Partners - the private equity firm of U2's Bono …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Lisa Hsia / Mashable!:

How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television — Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of Bravo Digital Media and is addicted to Flipboard on her iPad. — There's no question that the real-time conversations around TV shows on social networks — the virtual water cooler, if you will …

Doc Searls Weblog:

Jay Rosen and the Watchdog Web — I have to say what nearly fifty thousand Twitter followers already know: nobody does a better job of following and writing about what's going on in journalism than Jay Rosen. The dude just nails it, over and over and over again.

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Readers With Plenty to Say — LATE at night, at home in the Eastern time zone, Karen Garcia awaits the electronic publication of The Times's daily dose of two Op-Ed columnists. Her goal: read fast, formulate a hurried response and fire back with her “comment.”

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal

Deborah Potter / American Journalism Review:

Way off the Rails — CNN's prime-time lineup reflects a network in disarray. — Deborah Potter (potter@newslab.org) is executive director of NewsLab, a broadcast training and research center, and a former network correspondent. — A disgraced ex-governor, a talent show host and an Oprah wannabe.

Discussion: The Wire

New York Post:

Live from NY: SNL deal$ — Tweet — Is NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker agreeing to deals that line the pockets of his closest allies before the Comcast takeover? — That's what some folks inside 30 Rock are saying in light of NBC Universal's pact to sell video-streaming service Netflix fresh episodes of …

Jodi Enda / American Journalism Review:

Retreating from the World — In the face of heightened globalization and with the U.S. engaged in two wars, many mainstream news organizations have turned their backs on foreign news. Newspapers and television networks alike provide much less of it. Many outlets have shuttered overseas bureaus.