Mediagazer: AOL Patch Ad Sales Leaders Are Suddenly Gone (Nicholas Carlson/Business Insider)

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming — Part of the bet that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) made when it began building the metered paywall for the NYTimes.com was that the audience was larger than just northern, east coast readers.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Future of Journalism

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Twitter to launch political advertising — Trying to capitalize its status as a hub of the national political conversation, the social networking giant Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, executives told POLITICO.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, VatorNews, The Wrap, ClickZ, Techland, Technologizer, MediaPost, PC Magazine, CNET News, Business Insider, Adweek and Fast Company

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

News teams forced to give riot footage to police — Scotland Yard gains hours of unbroadcast material of August riots after serving court orders — The BBC, ITN and Sky News have handed hundreds of hours of unbroadcast footage of the August riots to police after being served with court orders by Scotland Yard.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Steve Myers / Poynter:

To be sure, blog highlighting unnecessary journalism phrases is absolutely necessary — Freelance writer Josh Sternberg has introduced a new Tumblr, “Unnecessary Journalism Phrases,” a very unique blog that is in the process of calling out the filler phrases in news stories.

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

AOL Patch Ad Sales Leaders Are Suddenly Gone — Patch, AOL's very expensive bet on local news blogs, lost its director of sales today - a month after AOL's SVP of local ad sales also bolted. — Scott Colontonio quit today for a job at Google's New York office, where he'll …

Discussion: paidContent

Guardian:

Al-Jazeera chief's surprise resignation raises fears for channel's independence — Wadah Khanfar stood down after eight years that consolidated the satellite network's reputation and his own position — Seated behind a vast desk, surrounded by TV screens, deep leather sofas and a wall …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, BBC, mediabistro.com, The First Post, Business Insider and Aljazeera

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

TV Everywhere is coming to Google TV — Get ready to look up your cable subscription credentials when Google TV launches a new version later this year: Turner will be launching new apps for TBS and TNT that will offer access to full-length episodes of TBS and TNT shows …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, The Next Web, SlashGear and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Hulu has more than 1 million paying subscribers: CEO — (Reuters) - Hulu, the popular online video service which has been put up for sale by its joint owners, now has more than 1 million paying subscribers, Chief Executive Jason Kilar said on Wednesday. — Earlier this year Kilar forecast …

Discussion: The Next Web and Electronista

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Zite Brings Personalized News Content to the iPad — Recently CNN bought Zite. Here we talk with Zite's CEO, to find out what's going on in this hot category and how Zite differs from the other players in the field. — There are a host of different applications that are available …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Media Matters Takes a Stab at Satellite Radio — Media Matters for America, the media monitoring group that directs most of its ire at Fox News and talk radio, is getting a radio show of its own, albeit temporarily. — For six weeks, the group will have a two-hour show on Sirius XM Radio.

Discussion: The New York Observer and On Media's Blog

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

News Corp. COO: All-'Simpsons' Channel a ‘Unique Opportunity’ — Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … A cable channel that only plays reruns of “The Simpsons” may sound like a joke, but News Corp. is taking the idea seriously, according to News Corp. COO Chase Carey.

Discussion: MediaPost

Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:

Another Laid-Off Slate Staffer Got a Good Job Very Quickly — Juliet Lapidos, formerly an editor in Slate's culture department, is joining the staff of the Times' editorial page, Intel has learned. She was laid off along with Jack Shafer, who was quickly snapped up by Reuters, and Timothy Noah …

Stephen Battaglio / TVGuide.com:

The Biz: NBC's Newsmag Gamble — Constructing the new multimillion-dollar studio for NBC's upcoming newsmagazine show Rock Center With Brian Williams has been a TV version of an archaeological dig. “We've found a piece of the set from the soap opera The Doctors,” says Williams.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and TVNewser

The Huffington Post:

Big Changes At The Onion — NEW YORK — The editorial team of The Onion, the beloved satirical newspaper that has called New York City its home for the last 10 years, may be moving to Chicago. — According to staffers who spoke to The Huffington Post, a business-side decision has been made to move …