Mediagazer: How long can AOL stay committed to Patch? (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

3:45 PM ET, October 7, 2011

Top News:

James Robinson / Guardian:

News of the World phone-hacking settlement agreed by Kelly Hoppen — Interior designer accepts £60,000 plus costs from News Group Newspapers, as Ashley Cole joins list of compensation test cases — The interior designer Kelly Hoppen settled her phone-hacking claim against the publisher …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report ‘illegal activity’ — Journalists at News International (NI) and other staff in Rupert Murdoch's media empire have been told to call a hotline to report suspicious colleagues in a fresh clampdown on corruption and other illegal activities.

Discussion: The New York Observer, The Raw Story, Mogulite, New York Magazine and Gawker

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Wapping's pseudo-union dog fails to bark as members face uncertain future

Discussion: Guardian

Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
James Murdoch Must Leave News Corp. Board, Pension Body Says

Discussion: Digital Spy, Guardian and Guardian

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Steve Jobs and the continuing disruption of media — The products created by Apple and its iconic founder Steve Jobs have revolutionized a host of different industries in the past couple of decades, from personal computing to mobile telephony — but they have also had a substantial impact …

Discussion: Washington Post, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Online Journalism Review, Adweek, iMediaConnection Blog, Fast Company, PC Magazine, Epicenter, MediaShift, The New Yorker Blog, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Webmetricsguru, MediaFile and Media Money …, Thanks:swagatsen

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Steve Jobs stops the presses one last time

Discussion: Poynter, Time and Gawker

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Over 100 Newspaper Front Pages Around The World Mourn Steve Jobs [Gallery]

Discussion: Poynter

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Wall Street protests: liberal cable's tea party moment? — The two cable networks battling each other for the liberal mantle finally have a movement they can embrace with the kind of fervor Fox News reserved for the tea party: — Occupy Wall Street. — After more than two weeks …

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, Mediaite and On Media's Blog

David Maris / Forbes:

Some Say Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aimless; Facts Say Otherwise — This post was written by David Maris, a writer and well-known health care equity research analyst. He has been ranked #1 six consecutive years by Institutional Investor Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at @davidmaris.

Discussion: Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, CJR, Capital New York, Betabeat and Media Matters for America

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Examiner.com editor: ‘Plagiarism is inexcusable and we try our best to guard against it’ — Romenesko+ Misc. — Examiner.com vice president of editorial Travis Henry says he first learned about his contributors' plagiarism by reading yesterday's Romenesko+ post, “Examiner.com is caught ‘pulling a Daily Mail’.”

Discussion: Cops and Courts and Poynter

Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:

Netflix Strikes Multi-Year Licensing Deal with AMC — Prior seasons of ‘The Walking Dead’ available Friday; also acquires rights to shows from AMC, IFC, Sundance, WE tv — Netflix and AMC Networks announced a multi-year licensing agreement in which prior seasons of AMC's The Walking Dead …

Discussion: MediaPost, Media Decoder, Multichannel, paidContent, PC Magazine, Yahoo! Finance and AllThingsD

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Disney CEO Bob Iger Inks New Contract, But Will Step Down in 2015 — The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, ABC News and ESPN, among numerous other media properties, has unveiled an unusual succession plan for CEO Bob Iger. Under the deal, Iger will step down as CEO in 2015 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, rbr.com, Forbes.com, paidContent, Media Decoder, Adweek, The Wrap, Bloomberg, Reuters, Company Town and TVSpy

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

How long can AOL stay committed to Patch? — Even before AOL's future started to look dodgy — with speculation about the future of CEO Tim Armstrong ramping up, as the company's financial underperformance continues — the rollout of the Patch.com hyperlocal news project seemed exceptionally ambitious.

Discussion: NYConvergence.com

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Denton pays debt on Gawker pageviews, makes new bet with Sorgatz — Just after settling a bet with Rex Sorgatz because the Gawker network fell 10 million page views short of their agreed-upon target, Nick Denton agreed to another bet — this time for 40 percent year-to-year growth. Sorgatz explains:

Discussion: Fimoculous and Felix

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Interim CEO in Internal Meeting: “Time Is a Constraint” (Also, Blame the Media!) — Today, in an internal meeting of its VP-level execs, Yahoo's interim CEO Tim Morse said of the Silicon Valley Internet giant's strategic review that “we know time is a constraint and we are mindful we have to go quickly.”

Discussion: Business Insider and Future of Journalism

Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:

New York Times Rises Most in Two Years After Carlos Slim Boosts Stake — New York Times Co. (NYT) climbed the most in almost two years in New York trading after Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim boosted his stake in the company. — The newspaper publisher rose 76 cents, or 13 percent …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter