Mediagazer: Don't hold your breath for a la carte cable (Joe Flint/Company Town)

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: Media Research Center and Big Journalism

Jihad Is Not Just Murder, Motive Matters — The respected Florida-based Poynter Institute, whose mission is to improve journalism in support of democracy, is trying to help journalists cover Islam more effectively by offering a new on-line course free of charge. So I registered.

Discussion: Gawker

Jim Romenesko / Poynter: Judith Miller: ‘Just what kind of journalism is Poynter promoting?’

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

Don't hold your breath for a la carte cable — Is the cable industry starting to change its mind about the idea of letting consumers decide what channels they want? A recent story from Reuters says cable operators are working on a such a plan and that it “represents a complete reversal …

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, MacStories, Electronista and TUAW, more at Techmeme »

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

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

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, Pat's Papers, Suffolk Times and New York Magazine

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, Mogulite and New York Magazine

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, The Spot, Poynter and Mother Jones

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Who'll Be NPR's Next CEO? — NEW YORK — It's been over six months since NPR's board of directors ousted CEO Vivian Schiller, following a hidden-camera scandal involving an NPR fundraising executive, and eight months since NPR's top news executive, Ellen Weiss, was shown the door in the wake of the Juan Williams firing.

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: Networked News, FishbowlDC and AllThingsD, Thanks:mathewi

J. David Goodman / The Lede:

American Who Waged ‘Media Jihad’ Is Said to Be Killed in Awlaki Strike — Yemen's official news agency reported that the young Web-savvy American thought to be behind the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire was killed in the same Friday strike that killed the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Discussion: New York Times and New York Magazine

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Historic New York Times Emoticon Headline Makes it into Print — When the New York Times published the headline “Study of Twitter Messages Tracks When We Are ” online, Yahoo reported that it marked first time an emoticon had been used to convey information in a headline-replacing a word in a sentence rather than punctuating it.

Discussion: Adverblog and Future Journalism Project

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: Jerry Guo's Blog and Gizmodo

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