Mediagazer: The Times for sale: who wants it and who benefits (Dan Sabbagh/Guardian)

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Rupert Murdoch's “Daily” iPad Newspaper Set for January Launch — Want to get a gander at “The Daily”, Rupert Murdoch's much-discussed, but still sorta-secret iPad newspaper? Wait a month. — News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17th, multiple sources tell me.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Wire, Fortune, Electronista and TUAW

John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:

Memo Pad: Jumping Ship... Sims Card... Moving On Up... JUMPING SHIP: Maybe a year ago the media world would have been surprised to see the Sunday New York Times business editor leave the paper and head to The Huffington Post. But the announcement on Thursday that Tim O'Brien is going to work …

Discussion: Slate, mediabistro.com, Poynter, New York Observer, On Media's Blog and Gawker

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Can't Dent iTunes — On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99.

Discussion: Beyond Search, hypebot, The Next Web and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The Huffington Post Hits Record 26 Million Unique Visitors in November, Now Ranked Number Two “Newspaper,” comScore — The Huffington Post has registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the United States, a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the “Newspaper Sites.”

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: Bloomberg, Tuned In, Observer, Yahoo! News, The Wrap, Mediaite, Media News International, Chickaboomer and Inside Cable News

Bloomberg:

Google Drive for TV Dominance Meets Reality as CBS, Fox Block Top Programs — Google Inc.'s drive to bring the Internet to living-room TVs and generate fresh advertising sales is being threatened by the failure to obtain popular shows such as “Glee” and “NCIS.”

Discussion: Bloomberg

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

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: eMedia Vitals, Gadget Lab and TeleRead

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The Foursquare For Websites OneTrueFan Launches In Beta, Opens Up To Publishers — We wrote about the Foursquare for websites OneTrueFan, at the startup's launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. After three months in Alpha, OneTrueFan is opening its doors and launching in beta.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Jennifer Weil / WWD Media Headlines:

Carine Roitfeld to Depart French Vogue — PARIS —Carine Roitfeld has decided to step down as editor in chief of French Vogue. After 10 years at the helm of the magazine, she has opted to focus on personal projects. Her departure will take place in a few weeks. — For complete coverage, see Monday's WWD.

Discussion: Guardian, New York Observer and The Fix

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

The Times for sale: who wants it and who benefits — Selling the Times and Sunday Times is an idea with currency in some circles - which shows just how the game of media power politics is being played out — This morning we speculated on why the Barclay family might be joining the objectors …

Ali O'Rourke / exchanges.nyx.com:

Is Bloomberg smarter than you? — Here's the scenario: It's earnings day and the IRO is gearing up to publish the company's release and start the conference call. The company's tech team gets an early copy of the release and in preparation, sets it up with its own secret URL (to be revealed in the press release).

Dana Gage / Tribune Media Services:

Tribune Media Services Acquires Internet Video Search and Indexing Company, CastTV — Tribune Media Services (TMS), a leading provider of entertainment information databases, announced today that it has acquired CastTV, a leader in video search, indexing and data technologies for discovering TV shows …

Discussion: NetworkEffect, NetNewsCheck Latest, MediaPost, paidContent, GigaOM and TechCrunch

Alan Patrick / broadstuff:

Paid-For News Will Win Out (Today the Tablet....) — (From Broadsight's ever-thoughtful Paul Lancefield) — Last week I got the new Sunday Times app on the iPad. The subscription is £2 per week for six days of The Times and the Sunday Times, as you would expect, on Sunday.

Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:

Experts: Charging WikiLeaks could erode freedom of the press — Charging WikiLeaks for releasing classified government materials may lead to similar prosecutions against media companies that publish state secrets, according to legal experts at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.

Thanks:gnagesh

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google News Adds “Follow News” Button, Easy Way To Customize Home Page — Google News has quietly added a new button that allows you to easily bookmark frequent searches and create custom sections within your personalized Google News home page. — The New “Follow News” Button

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Another Love Note From Facebook to Media Sites: A New Sign-Up Tool — More outreach from Facebook to media companies: A new registration tool, which is supposed to make it even easier for Web site visitors to sign on to the site using their Facebook account.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Yahoo! News and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Press Gazette, Media News International and FishbowlNY

Matt Thompson / Snarkmarket:

A hypothetical path to the Speakularity — Yesterday NiemanLab published some of my musings on the coming “Speakularity” — the moment when automatic speech transcription becomes fast, free and decent. — I probably should have underscored the fact that I don't see this moment happening in 2011 …