Mediagazer: B&N Retaliates After Kindle Gets 4-Month Exclusive On DC Graphic Novels (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

7:15 PM ET, October 7, 2011

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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Sony Pictures Acquiring New Steve Jobs Biography For Major Feature Film — EXCLUSIVE: I've just learned that Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.

Discussion: The Next Web, The Moviefone Blog, Business Insider, The Corsair, Venture Capital Dispatch and AppleInsider, more at Techmeme »

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

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Steve Jobs and the media: For the most part, it was a love affair

Discussion: Poynter, Gawker, Epicenter and Crikey, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: Cult of Mac, Poynter and Time

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 after she alleged that messages were intercepted — The interior designer Kelly Hoppen settled her phone-hacking claim against the publisher …

Discussion: Press Gazette

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.

Discussion: Digital Spy, Guardian and Guardian

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: On Media's Blog, The New York Observer, Telegraph, 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

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

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: Media Decoder, paidContent, Home Media Magazine, MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, Multichannel, 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: Media Money …, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, rbr.com, MediaPost, paidContent, Adweek, Media Decoder, Bloomberg, Reuters, Company Town and TVSpy

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

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

B&N Retaliates After Kindle Gets 4-Month Exclusive On DC Graphic Novels — Kindle Fire owners (and anybody with a Kindle reading app) will be able to read bestselling graphic novels like Watchmen, Batman and V for Vendetta on their new devices, under the terms of a four-month exclusive deal DC Entertainment …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Bleeding Cool Comic Book …, CNNMoney.com, Company Town, EW.com, TeleRead, The New York Observer and ZDNet

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: Future of Journalism and NYConvergence.com

Curtis Brainard / CJR:

The Scientist Closes — 25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last — Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and website focused on the life sciences, learned Monday that it would be their last.

Discussion: Nature and The Scientist