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10:15 PM ET, December 16, 2010

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
The Huffington Post hires NYT's Sunday Business editor  —  The Huffington Post, which recently hired New York Times economic correspondent Peter Goodman, has returned to the Gray Lady to poach another veteran journalist: Sunday Business editor Timothy L. O'Brien.
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor: WikiLeaks Is ‘Not My Kind of News Organization’  —  Bill Keller.  Image via Wikipedia  —  Is WikiLeaks a media organization, or is it something else?  It's a question with important implications, given the special protections afforded the press, but it's …
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Jesse Walker / Reason:
Our Leaky World
Discussion: Hit & Run, Time and Politics Daily
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook to Big Media: We Like You.  We Really, Really Like You.  —  Facebook has more than 550 million users, but right now the company has its eyes on a very particular set of friends: Big media companies.  —  Mark Zuckerberg's company is working hard to win over heavyweight content distributors …
Peter Applebome / New York Times:
Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself  —  At the new offices of The Register Citizen in this faded old mill town, there's a sign out front welcoming residents to come in for coffee and muffins at the Newsroom Café — sort of Starbucks meets “Lou Grant.”
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism  —  Flipboard, the social magazine app for the iPad, seems to be having a flipping good run.  —  Last week, the famously design-conscious Apple Inc. named Flipboard its App of the Year.
Discussion: BoomTown
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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Meredith Launches Video Network For Women  —  As video presents ever-greater ad opportunities online, Meredith Corporation on Wednesday launched its own female-focused video network.  —  The network includes video from Meredith brands Parents, Family Circle, More and Fitness, among other properties.
Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and FishbowlNY
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Fills the Gap Between King and Morgan  —  CNN has a month of time to fill between Larry King's last day and the first day for his replacement, Piers Morgan.  Mr. King's final edition of “Larry King Live” will be broadcast on Thursday.  —  Here's the plan after that point …
Discussion: The Wrap and Inside Cable News
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
For NPR stations, a sigh of relief  —  A funny thing happened to NPR stations after the worst publicity fiasco in NPR's history: almost nothing at all.  —  Public radio outlets across the country braced for the worst from their listeners after NPR fired commentator Juan Williams for remarks …
Discussion: On Media's Blog and Free Press
Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Despite Murdoch, Wall Street Journal Still Wins Deal Scoops  —  Last week, I wrote about the DealBook franchise at The New York Times, which in nine years has expanded from a simple morning email newsletter to an entire arm of the newspaper's business section.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista  —  News is traveling fast about a leaked slide from a Yahoo “all hands” meeting earlier this week that listed several products — including Delicous and AltaVista — to be “sunsetted.”  Yahoo confirms that Yahoo Buzz will be closed, as will the Traffic APIs.
Meg / meish dot org:
Initial reflections on Newsfoo  —  On arrival at Newsfoo a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix, Arizona, each participant was given a notebook.  The notebook may have just been a rather fine example of conference schwag, but looking back at it after the weekend, I realise that mine speaks volumes …
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Bloomberg Voice: Opinions, Yes, But Only Factual Ones  —  Mike Bloomberg.  You could disagree with him, but then you'd be wrong.  Image via Wikipedia  —  Ever since its founding almost 30 years ago, Bloomberg LP has proceeded under the notion that there's a right way and a wrong way of doing …
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Hacking ‘approved by NoW chief’  —  High court papers lodged by Sienna Miller's lawyers contradict paper's insistence that a single ‘rogue’ journalist was involved  —  Lawyers have secured explosive new evidence linking one of the News of the World's most senior editorial executives …
Discussion: Press Gazette
Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gawker copycats, luxurious print, more robots, and a new blogging golden age: Predictions for 2011  —  Editor's Note: We're wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring.  —  Below are predictions from Susan Orlean, Joe Grimm, Matt Haughey …
Josh Duboff / The Awl:
The Night Blogger Blogs Alone  —  One thing that happens is that you stop speaking altogether.  One Thursday afternoon, shifting between various gchats—all with friends bored in their cubicles at offices across the city—I realized that I hadn't said a word out loud in close to 18 hours.
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
Forbes Teams With MediaVest, comScore to Track Ad Effectiveness  —  Study will track how print ads drive traffic online.  —  Forbes announced the launch of a new research project that will measure print advertising effectiveness, using digital tracking methodology.
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Sarah Palin goes ‘lamestream’  —  After making attacks on what she memorably labeled “the lamestream media” one of her signature issues, Sarah Palin has started to experiment with a new strategy toward the press — engaging it.  —  The former Alaska governor has started cautiously cooperating …
Steve Summers / TweetDeck's posterous:
Breaking news  —  Over the past 12 months we have been approached by a number of news organisations, requesting help in rolling out TweetDeck across their networks.  We are proud to be working closely with Sky News, The Guardian and now NBC News, as well a few smaller organisations …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Groupon, iPad and Twitter: 2 much 2 hope 4?  —  With iPad apps, Groupon-like buying programs and Twitter campaigns topping the to-do lists at most newspapers, it's time to place these putative publishing panaceas in proper perspective.  —  Recent research into consumer acceptance …
 
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Michelle Cottle Leaves New Republic to Work for Tina Brown
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:
Appinions turns comments into content
James Poniewozik / Tuned In:
Vapornews: The Huge-Then-Disappearing Stories of 2010
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
CNN.com GM explains new iPad strategy, why 'the money will come …
Mark Pasetsky / The Huffington Post:
Three Ways the iPad Will Revolutionize Celebrity Magazine Covers
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of all-access — and Apple
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
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Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
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Juanita León / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Juanita León on independent journalism and La Silla …
Discussion: Nieman Reports
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Le Monde Ousts Top Manager
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Controversial Times sports editor bumped upstairs
Discussion: Urlesque and FishbowlNY
Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:
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