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10:15 AM ET, October 10, 2011

Top News:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster — Abandoning a break-up plan it announced last month, Netflix said Monday morning that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site. — The company admitted that it had moved …

Discussion: The Official Netflix Blog, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, New York Magazine, Gawker, Betabeat, Forbes, paidContent, Joystiq, @pkafka and The Moviefone Blog, more at Techmeme »

Drew Grant / The New York Observer:

Jesse LaGreca Continues to Destroy Media Bias of Occupy Wall Street on ABC's This Week [Video] — George Will vs. Jesse LaGreca on ABC's “This Week” — Occupy Wall Street's articulate champion of the Nu-New Left, Jesse LaGreca, finally made it to air this Sunday when he was invited on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour.

Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Kos

David Carr / New York Times:
A Protest's Ink-Stained Fingers

Discussion: Credit.com News + Advice and Chickaboomer

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Reliable Sources Panel Analyzes The Difference Between Tea Party And Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Media News, AdAge, Gawker, The New York Observer and Forbes

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

TV and Film, From Condé Nast — LOS ANGELES — Condé Nast is coming to Hollywood. — The magazine publisher's biggest titles, especially Vogue and Vanity Fair, have long been hardwired into the movie capital. But Condé Nast as a company has been notably absent …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable and The New York Observer

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Fox News and Hannity at the Top After 15 Years — ATLANTA — When the Fox News host Sean Hannity arrived at Centennial Olympic Park here on Thursday night, some of the hundreds of fans who had been waiting for him since sunset rushed to the rope line for handshakes and autographs.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Piers Morgan Isn't Sleeping Well — CNN's new Larry King made his name in the scandal-chasing, privacy-invading British tabloid gutter. He's now ascended to cable-news royalty, though his past is casting a shadow over the coronation. — Piers Morgan used to have anxiety dreams about Rupert Murdoch.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Layoffs follow pay cut at Poynter's St. Petersburg Times — When he announced a recent 5 percent pay cut for staff and change in severance payments, St. Petersburg Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash said the cost-cutting “will likely include further job reductions,” and now it has.

Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

Secret Orders Target Email — The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: Digits, Free Press, Fast Company, Mashable!, @wikileaks, msnbc.com, CNN, CNET News, @csoghoian, Agence France Presse and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Bloomberg Bows Luxe Mag — Through its terminal business, Bloomberg LP has served as a tool for financiers to make money. Now, it'll tell them how to spend it. — Bloomberg Markets, the monthly magazine sent free to terminal subscribers, will test Bloomberg Pursuits …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Independent website to launch paywall for non-UK readers — New York Times-style system of 20 free articles a month is part of push to bolster Independent's multimedia credentials — The Independent, which celebrated its 25th birthday on Friday, is to launch a paywall for non-UK readers …

Discussion: Adweek, Journalism.co.uk and The Next Web

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Guardian's iPad Newspaper Edition Will Cost £9.99 Per Month — Eighteen months after iPad launched and following a long gestation, The Guardian is finally on the verge of getting its iPad edition out the door. — Though it will be free for three months after launch thanks to a sponsorship …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Discovery Brings In NBCU's JB Perrette To Run Digital — It's been over a year since Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) had a dedicated executive at the very top to oversee digital operations, but that will change, now that the cable network has hired NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) …

Discussion: Multichannel

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Baltimore Sun Adds Metered Paywall — The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will cost $2.49 per week or $49.99 for 26 weeks (which works out to $99.84 per year) for non-print subscribers …