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6:55 PM ET, September 22, 2011

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Reed Hastings: We Are Bringing Netflix To Facebook, Except In The U.S. — Netflix is coming to Facebook in a really social way. At Facebook's F8 developer conference today, Mark Zuckerberg previewed how Facebook members will be able to see what movies or TV shows their friends have been watching …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Forbes, AdAge, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, Lost Remote, CNET News, PC Magazine, Epicenter and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

‘Facebook Editions’ of The Daily and More Unveiled at F8 — I'm not even gonna bother with a caption here. You obviously know who this guy is. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Most of the buzz around F8, Facebook's annual developer conference, centers on innovations in music and video sharing …

Discussion: Poynter, AllThingsD, NetNewsCheck Latest, GigaOM, Forbes, msnbc.com and The New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Mike Isaac / Epicenter:

A First Look at Social Reader, WaPo's New Facebook App — Facebook and the Washington Post Company introduced a new social news reading application at Facebook's f8 developer conference on Thursday, aiming to change the way users interact with online news content. Wired.com had a chance to use the app before its wide release.

Discussion: Fast Company, GigaOM, @mathewi and This is my next

Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Facebook, Netflix Push Congress on Social Integration, Video Privacy

Discussion: The Official Netflix Blog, Home Media Magazine, VentureBeat and netflix.www.capwiz.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Big Media Hands Over Its Locks and Keys to Facebook

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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

Nielsen Discloses Major TV Ratings Glitch, Could Impact Millions In TV Ad Buys — A week after unveiling an aggressive plan to convince the ad industry to use its new Facebook panel as the “GRP” for online advertising and media buys, Nielsen Wednesday began informing clients about a major snafu …

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers, rbr.com and Inside Cable News

Tom Grubisich / Street Fight: Nielsen's Undercount of News: Why the Numbers Don't Add Up

Jonathan Stray:

Journalism for Makers — I find myself wondering what it would take to fix the global financial system, but most financial journalism doesn't help me to answer this question. Something seems wrong here. The modern world is built on a series of vast systems, intricate combinations of people and machines …

Farida Zeynalova / Press Gazette:

Survey shows five per cent of Britons trust tabloid journalists post hacking scandal — Trust in newspaper journalists has dropped over the last year in the wake of the hacking scandal according to a survey carried out by YouGov for the University of Nottingham.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and NetNewsCheck Latest

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

A Huge Thank-You To IVP And RRE For Giving Us A Boatload Of Money — We're pleased to announce that some great investors just gave us a bunch more money. — This means two things: — First, that we'll be able to do a ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Felix Salmon, Business Insider, @thestalwart, paidContent, Pulse2 and AllThingsD

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Online Video Measurement Platform Visible Measures Raises $13M — Exclusive: Visible Measures, a third-party online media measurement solution for advertisers and publishers, is announcing $13 million round of funding, led by DAGVentures with participation from new strategic partner Advance Publications …

Discussion: MediaPost, AdAge, Future of Journalism, VideoNuze and Multichannel

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: Journalism.co.uk, Jon Slattery, New York Magazine and Editors Weblog

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Here Are The “Smoke And Mirrors” AOL Is Using To Make 10 Patches Look Profitable By Year's End — AOL still makes almost all of its shrinking profits from that dial-up product you remember from the 1990s and their search deal with Google. — In hopes of changing that …

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

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Katie Feola / Adweek:

Layoffs at Viacom — Viacom employees have been hit with a round of layoffs, Adweek has learned. Pink slips were handed down Thursday afternoon. A Viacom spokesperson confirmed the cuts, and said that the downsizing primarily took place within the media conglomerate's music group, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo.

Discussion: MediaPost and Multichannel News

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: VentureBeat, Techland, Medacity, The Next Web and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

Another Walter Cronkite at CBS — People who've called CBS News' DC bureau lately may have been shocked to hear this: “CBS News, this is Walt Cronkite.” — The legendary newsman passed away in 2009, of course, but a new generation of Cronkites now hangs his hat at the news organization: Walter Cronkite IV, a grandson.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of WSJ Live — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — It's news. It's video. It's a streaming tablet product that's this week's #1 free news app in Apple's App Store.

David Lipke / WWD:

Chris Mitchell Makes Changes at GQ … MITCHELL'S MOVES AT GQ: Chris Mitchell, the new publisher of GQ, hasn't yet moved to his new office on the seventh floor of 4 Times Square, but he's already made some staffing changes. Brendan Monaghan and Alice McKown have been named associate publishers at the title …

Discussion: MediaPost and mediabistro.com

Tim Ebner / American Journalism Review:

As ONA Conference Gets Underway, the Emphasis Is on Agility — “Agile” was the word of the day at the kickoff of the Online News Association's 2011 Conference. — ONA 2011 opened Thursday with several field trips, professional workshops, happy hour-style meet-ups and an opening night reception …

Derek Willis / Poynter:

What newsrooms can do now to start preparing for 2012 election coverage online — The abundance of ideas that elections tend to generate can tempt newsrooms to think big. Very big. — We should think big, but we should also start small. Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill said that …