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9:20 PM ET, October 3, 2011

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

ABC News and Yahoo News Announce Deal to Share Content — Yahoo News, which has more unique visitors than any other news Web site, is partnering with ABC News to share stories and feature Web video series. — The partnership, announced Monday on ABC's “Good Morning America,” …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Yahoo-ABC News partnership: the more things change... ABC reaches further: … It's a whole new day.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and Company Town

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Analysis: For ABC News and Yahoo!, New Partnership Requires a Long-Term Investment

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

‘Daily Mail’ Jumps The Gun On Knox Verdict With Embarrassing Results — The internet makes it possible to broadcast breaking news at a pace unlike anything we've ever experienced. Unfortunately, that includes the ability to rapidly transmit reports that never should have been written, much less published.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Gawker, Malcolm Coles, Future Journalism Project, @felixsalmon, @mikebutcher, @kashhill, @marcsettle, @matthewwells and @themediatweets

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Amanda Knox verdict plays big & bold on most news home pages

Discussion: TVNewser and Mediaite

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

HuffPost at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring — The Huffington Post Media Group, which says it has topped one billion page views for the month of August, has bought an online grassroots platform called Localocracy.

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Epicenter, The Wrap, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Forbes, Beyond Search, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, Adweek, NYConvergence.com, The Next Web, Future of Journalism, Betabeat and TechCrunch

John Koblin / WWD:
Huffington Post Taps Rita Wilson

Discussion: The New York Observer

Jennifer Preston / New York Times:

Mashable, Once a One-Man Blog, Gains Clout in Social Media — Pete Cashmore acknowledged he was nervous. Only a few years ago, he was living with his parents in a small town in northeast Scotland, trying to start a technology blog. Now, at 26, he was about to interview Elie Wiesel …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com, @rafat, @lavrusik, eMedia Vitals and Poynter, Thanks:beet_tv

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:

Fox News celebrates 15 years on air; Network has become No. 1 in cable news for past 10 — Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is used to being slammed on a regular basis — it comes with running the No. 1 cable news network — but it doesn't always make the attacks easy to accept.

Discussion: Adweek, The Huffington Post, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

D.M. Levine / Adweek:
The Fox News Revolution

Discussion: rbr.com, Mediaite, Inside Cable News and TVNewser

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix is bidding for Arrested Development comeback — Arrested Development is back: The cult comedy is returning to TV screens with a final ten episode season, according to a report from Deadline Hollywood. The revelation was made at the New Yorker Festival, where Arrested Development …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Mediaite, Home Media Magazine, Deadline.com, TVLine and AintItCool

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘Arrested Development’ Movie, and New TV Episodes, Are in the Works

Discussion: Inside TV, Washington Post, VatorNews, The Daily Caller, FishbowlLA, Adweek, Speakeasy, Guardian, BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER, NY Daily News, /Film, LAist, All and Forbes

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

‘Diggnation,’ Popular Web Talk Show, to End in December — Together, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are akin to Oprah for a certain class of tech enthusiasts. — The weekly beta-testing and beer-guzzling show they have hosted for six years, “Diggnation,” adapted the television talk show format …

Discussion: @kevinrose, GigaOM and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »

David Hirschman / Street Fight:

Hyperlocal Publishers Form a Trade Group — A new trade association aims to unite independent hyperlocal publishers around common business interests and offer services that small publishers may not have access to on their own, such as health insurance. — At the Block by Block conference …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, eMedia Vitals, Poynter and Vouchification

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

MG Siegler Will Become Our Apple Columnist, And Join CrunchFund As A VC — When I first reached out to MG Siegler to join TechCrunch two and a half years ago, I knew he was an amazing talent who could help cement our place as the premier technology blog on the Internet.

Discussion: paidContent, Business Insider, UNCRUNCHED and @betabeat, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Hearst Magazines boss: We've made giant strides toward becoming ‘the magazine company of the future’ — Romenesko+ Misc. — In a letter sent this morning to all Hearst Magazines employees, president David Carey says tomorrow's HGTV Magazine tryout “is a testament to our conviction that every sector …

Discussion: Media Life Magazine and FishbowlNY

Drew Grant / The New York Observer:

Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video] — Protester Jesse LaGreca schools Fox producer — Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Discussion: NY Daily News, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Guardian, PC Magazine, 10,000 Words, ANIMAL, Forbes, GalleyCat, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, ShortFormBlog, Future Journalism Project, The Atlantic Online, Mogulite, TVNewser and FishbowlLA

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google Takes Page From Sunday Newspaper With New ‘Circulars’ Ads — Google Inc. (GOOG) is on a quest to make Internet advertising look more like the Sunday paper. — The online-search giant is working with advertisers such as Best Buy Co. and Macy's Inc. (M) to create Web-based circulars …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, eMedia Vitals, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Adweek, Mashable!, Fast Company and MediaPost

Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

In 2011, Magazine Launches Outpace Closures — Food and regional interest titles lead launch categories. — In its quarterly survey, Mediafinder.com reports 200 magazines launched in the first nine months of 2011. This number is an upshot from the same period in 2010, in which 176 magazines debuted.

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Grant money is available to independent investigative journalists — Romenesko+ Misc. — Need money for travel and other reporting expenses? The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has grants averaging $5,000 for independent journalists who are investigating issues in the United States …

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Newsweek retracts Pelosi quote — Nancy Pelosi is not exactly what you'd call a loose cannon. — So it was big news this morning when a quote attributed to the House Minority Leader began circulating around the blogosphere, in which she appeared to tell Newsweek's Howard Kurtz …

Discussion: Regret the Error, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, TPMDC, The Daily Caller and Poynter

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Editor: Aug. 2011 ‘Wall Street Journal’ ad revenue up 24 percent over Aug. 2010 — The Wall Street Journal saw a 24-percent increase in print ad revenue in August when compared to August of 2010, an increase that occurred “while other national newspapers have reported distressing declines in advertising …

Discussion: Poynter and Media Matters for America

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Can Erin Burnett fix CNN's woman problem? — With the launch of “OutFront” on CNN at 7 tonight, Erin Burnett is entering some promising, but potentially dangerous, cable news territory. — For all that CNN has done to elevate the careers of marquee names such as Christiane Amanpour and Candy Crowley …

Discussion: New York Magazine

John F. Burns / New York Times:

Reporter Threatens to Name Names in Phone Hacking Scandal — LONDON — A reporter who is among the 16 people arrested and then freed on bail in the phone hacking case that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain warned his former bosses on Friday that he planned to break his silence on the scandal in a civil court case.

Evelyn Messinger / MediaShift:

Attack of the Attack Ads: Citizens United and the 2012 Elections — In 2012, two tidal waves will reconfigure the American electoral system and the news media that cover it. A tsunami made of money will buoy up the structure of entrenched political power, while a huge wave of personal technology will disrupt it.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Electronista:

YouTube's $100m TV content deals said near finished — YouTube paying top cash for Tony Hawk video, more — Google's plans for professional, live YouTube channels are near completion, insiders claimed Monday. Deals were billed by the WSJ as near-final for pro skater Tony Hawk …

Discussion: VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »