Mediagazer: Denton pays debt on Gawker pageviews, makes new bet with Sorgatz (Julie Moos/Poynter)

1:05 PM ET, October 7, 2011

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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: iMediaConnection Blog, Forbes, Fast Company, Rolling Stone, MediaShift, Fortune, Webmetricsguru, MediaFile, Media Money …, Poynter and Gawker, more at Techmeme », Thanks:swagatsen

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Steve Jobs stops the presses one last time — It was scramble the engine time in the publishing world as news of Steve Jobs' death broke shortly before 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Simon & Schuster again sped up the release date of the Walter Isaacson-written Jobs biography that had been in the works …

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

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Jobs asked Isaacson to write bio in 2004 because ‘I wanted my kids to know me’

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Wapping's pseudo-union dog fails to bark as members face uncertain future — One dog at Wapping that has hardly barked since the phone hacking scandal broke is the in-house pseudo-union known as the News International Staff Association (Nisa). — It is, of course, a creature of News Int …

Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:

James Murdoch Must Leave News Corp. Board, Pension Body Says — Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch should leave the board of the media company in the wake of a hacking scandal at its U.K. newspaper unit, according to a group of British pension funds.

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.

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Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Sun editor: celebrity reporters operate just like political hacks

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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:

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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 …

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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 …

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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.”

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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.

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Nicola Kean / Portfolio:

Content Still King For Media Industry — Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google: these are the companies that will dominate the media industry in the near future. But the good news is it is possible for emerging businesses to break through, according to the panel at MediaPost's Future of the Media Forum earlier today in New York City.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

What happens to books when the Kindle is free? — Amazon's recent announcement of the Kindle Fire — its color tablet that may or may not become a competitor to the Apple iPad — was what got the most attention last week, but the online retailer also made some other announcements at the same time …