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7:05 AM ET, April 7, 2011

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program — Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. — His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show …

The Daily Beast:
Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Guardian, Salon, Reason, Inside Cable News and AdAge

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
Here's The Real Reason Glenn Beck And Fox News Are Parting Ways

Discussion: Speakeasy, Guardian, Gawker and Broadcasting & Cable

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, @daveweigel, @davidfolkenflik and The Huffington Post

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free — Yesterday, AOL's Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to …

Discussion: Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, Betabeat and FishbowlNY

Anne Thompson / Thompson on Hollywood:

AOL's Huffington Overhauls Online Brands Moviefone and Cinematical: Moviefone's Chui Loses Job — Online movie brands Moviefone and Cinematical are caught in the chaos brought on by new AOL media mogul Arianna Huffington and her new editorial lieutenant, ex-New York Times editor Montorio, as they overhaul AOL's entertainment coverage.

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Recap genre not so lucrative after all: AOL TV freelancers are next to go

Discussion: The Wire, Future of Journalism and Betabeat

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: AOL Axes Freelancers. Time to Dust Off the WARN Act?

Jeffrey Benzing / American Journalism Review:

“Too Amazing To Turn Down” — Why high-profile journalists are leaving prestigious news outlets like the New York Times to join The Huffington Post. Posted: Tue, April 5, 2011 — Jeffrey Benzing (jbenzing@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — What do you get when you take a handful …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and On Media's Blog

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Remaking AOL in Huffington's Image — Web Portal's New Editor Sweeps In With Cookies, Big Ideas to Turn Passions Into News—and Money — The Huffington Post made a name for itself through a formula of buzzy political commentary splashed with celebrity gossip and traffic-grabbing tricks.

Wall Street Journal:

Google to Revamp YouTube With ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, Online Video News, thinq_, GigaOM, Fortune, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Deal Journal, MediaFile, WebProNews, Engadget, The Wire, CNET News, eMedia Vitals, Between the Lines Blog and WatchingTV Online, more at Techmeme »

Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

Twitter to Offer Marketers More Tools to Target, Track Followers — Geo-Relevant Ads Confirmed, ‘Follower Dashboard’ Announced at Ad Age Digital Conference — Twitter is finally giving advertisers what they've been asking for: geo-relevant ads. It's also giving them more-detailed user analytics …

David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ AdAgeDigital: Twitter's Bain: Twitter Beats Facebook In Driving Purchases

Discussion: AdAge and Future of Journalism

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Labor Panel to Press Reuters Over Reaction to Twitter Post — In what would be the first government case against an employer involving Twitter, the National Labor Relations Board told Thomson Reuters on Wednesday that it planned to file a civil complaint accusing the company of illegally reprimanding …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

More data on The Daily: What's prime time for iPad use? And which stories get tweeted the most? — Yesterday, I wrote about a fascinating set of data I'd obtained with the help of the folks at PostRank: Every tweet generated from within The Daily iPad app from launch through March 31.

Discussion: Subtraction.com, Techland, blogs.journalism.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac and Bloggasm

Susannah Breslin / Pink Slipped:

How to Become a Forbes Blogger — I've been a Forbes blogger for a little over a month. — How did I become a Forbes blogger? — What have I learned? — Let's find out. — TIP #1: Know somebody. — Before I was a blogger at Forbes, I was a blogger at True/Slant.

Discussion: LA Observed

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu — By the end of this year, an estimated 2 million households in the U.S. will have abandoned TV for the Web, cutting the cord with their cable companies. This estimate comes from Convergence Consulting Group …

Discussion: broadstuff, MediaPost, Media Money …, I4U News and Fortune

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Exclusive: YouTube's Tom Pickett and Lance Podell on YT's Fast Expanding Creator Network — With the acquisition of Next New Networks, YouTube aims to expand its legion of independent content creator by many thousands, creating both short and long form programming in various verticals says Tom Pickett …

Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal:

Cable TV Tunes In Apps — Executives Look to Tablets to Bolster Audience as More Viewers Turn to Web — A group of high-ranking cable television executives met with Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley last April to discuss how to make more movies and TV shows available …

ETonline:

Source: Matt Lauer Leaving the ‘Today’ Show — As headlines have Meredith Vieira leaving the “Today” show, a source tells ET and The Insider that Matt Lauer has notified his NBC bosses that he will be resigning from the “Today” show when his contract expires on December 31, 2012.