Mediagazer: Patch Fires Two Editors In San Francisco — Layoffs Looming? (Noah Davis/Business Insider)

Media Poachables 2011: The 25 Editors and Staffers to Steal For Your Masthead — IT'S A BUYER'S MARKET, AND THEY'RE JUST IN IT. Only three years after 2008 ravaged many a media property, New York's editorial operations haven't just thawed, but many are now on a hiring hot streak.

Discussion: @mathewi and Talking Biz News

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Apple seeks worldwide iCloud music rights — Managers at iTunes are trying to lock down worldwide cloud-music rights, CNET has learned. — Sources familiar with the discussions between Apple, record companies, and music publishers, say Apple is seeking international music licenses for its iCloud service.

Discussion: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Electronista, MacStories and TUAW, more at Techmeme »

Peter Applebome / New York Times:

2 Long Island Weeklies Wonder About Spike in Sales — It is possible there is some larger lesson for ailing newspaper sales in the sudden good fortune of The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review, two modest Long Island weeklies that saw an unprecedented sales spike last week …

Discussion: Mediaite, Suffolk Times, Pat's Papers and New York Magazine

Alex Sherman / Business Week:

Cable's ESPN Dilemma: Wildly Popular—but Costly — As the Disney-owned network pays more for sports content, cable bills may rise — Of the 20 most-watched programs ever on cable TV, 16 were episodes of Monday Night Football—a show that Walt Disney's ESPN sports network didn't begin broadcasting on cable until 2006.

Discussion: MediaPost

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Who believes print newspapers have a future? ‘The Occupy Wall Street Journal’ does — Amid all the complaints that there's an Occupy Wall Street media blackout, some protest-sympathizers have taken matters into their own hands. — Tomorrow, the rolling protest in the Financial District …

Discussion: The New York Observer, CJR, Runnin' Scared, ANIMAL and Mogulite

Paul Vale / The Huffington Post - UK:

Donald Rumsfeld Tells Al Jazeera ‘I Am Delighted You Are Doing What You Are Doing’ — The Huffington Post UK … Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has given an interview to Al Jazeera, ending his feud with a channel he once described as “vicious”.

Discussion: TVNewser

Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:

Jerry Guo: What I Did Was ‘F-ed Up’ and I Must Leave for Grouper to Survive — Jerry Guo, international rules-bending journalist turned startup CEO, just issued a public apology on his Tumblr. The apology is addressed to the startup world and to the CEO of TechStars company Ignighter, Adam Sachs.

Discussion: Gizmodo and Jerry Guo's Blog

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Muffingate's Sad Story: 178 Articles Perpetuate DOJ Myth, 37 Correct It — WASHINGTON — It seemed too good to be true and largely was. — A report released by the Justice Department's acting inspector general on Sept. 20 uncovered a treasure chest of “wasteful or extravagant spending” …

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter and Mother Jones

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Clean Slate: How the online mag's tech director Dan Check fine-tuned a 15-year-old machine — As the web's oldest living magazine, Slate has acquired a certain reputation of, well, old-fashionedness. The New York Observer called Slate “tech-backward” last November.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Future Journalism Project, eMedia Vitals and Slate

Judson Berger / Fox News:

Course Instructs Journalists to Take Note That Jihad ‘Not a Leading Cause of Death’ — A new online journalism course on Islam appears to downplay the threat posed by global jihad groups, suggesting reporters keep the death toll from Islamic terrorism in “context” by comparing that toll …

Discussion: Poynter, Media Research Center, Gawker, Fox News and Big Journalism

Sara Rafsky / Committee to Protect Journalists:

Mexico murder may be social media watershed — María Elizabeth Macías Castro's killers made sure their actions were understood. In a macabre, carefully orchestrated mise-en-scene, they placed her body in front of a poster with the ominous note.

Discussion: Poynter

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to media: A Facebook app is not innovation — There's been a lot of attention paid recently to the new “social reading” apps that were launched by a number of publishers and content companies — including The Washington Post and The Guardian — at Facebook's f8 developer conference.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, AllThingsD and Poynter, Thanks:mathewi

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

Patch Fires Two Editors In San Francisco — Layoffs Looming? — If you believe Patch president Warren Webster, the local site conglomerate is going great, but we heard from one writer who was let go from the San Francisco/Bay Area Patch on Thursday. — The source writes:

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Sean Parker Is Launching a Blog — The Sean Parkington Post? Seanster? Blogify? It's not clear what former Facebook president Sean Parker will call his forthcoming blog, but it's clear the famed tech hustler is serious about the endeavor: He's hired a firm to build buzz, and is already running ads and planning to hire writers.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Presenting The ‘Newspaper’ Nominees For Adweek's ‘Hot List’ Awards — Adweek is gearing up for its newly expanded and revamped Hot List awards this December, when it will honor only the very hottest in magazines and newspapers, as well as (as of this year) the hottest names and titles in TV and digital media.