Mediagazer: News International donates £2.8m to charity from final edition of News of the World (James Robinson/Guardian)

7:50 PM ET, October 10, 2011

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Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Geraldo Greeted By Occupy Wall Street Protestors Chanting ‘Fox News Lies’ — Fox News weekend host Geraldo Rivera went to Zucotti Park this weekend toreport on the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that has been going on for a number weeks and host his eponymous show remotely.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Forbes, Future of Journalism, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress

Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:

Occupy Wall Street coverage reveals some financial journalists still mired in Wall Street culture — The first story on the first show of CNBC anchor-turned CNN star Erin Burnett's new series OutFront was a snarky put-down of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Discussion: Mediaite

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Link by Link: Pastebin Helps Occupy Wall Street Spread the Word — A STRENGTH of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement has been its flexible organization and nondoctrinaire agenda: “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”

Discussion: CNBC, NYConvergence.com, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Betabeat, Poynter, Runnin' Scared and Boing Boing

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:
FED UP WITH WEAK REPORTING ON OCCUPY WALL STREET, THIS GUY WENT DOWN THERE AND DID THE JOB HIMSELF

Discussion: The New York Observer and Brooklyn Mutt

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Jessie LaGreca, Occupy Wall Street Protester, On ‘This Week’: Media Has Failed Working Class People

Discussion: The New York Observer, Daily Kos and Runnin' Scared

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

Discussion: Mashable!, Credit.com News + Advice and Chickaboomer

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 …

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:

Conservative Writer Admits ‘Infiltrating’ 99 Percent Movement To ‘Mock And Undermine’ It — Museum guards warn off demonstrators from entrance (AP) — An assistant editor with a right-wing magazine admitted in a column Saturday evening to posing as part of the 99 Percent Movement in D.C. “in order to mock and undermine” it.

Discussion: CJR, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Week, American Spectator, Gawker, cgrapski's FDL blog, Associated Press, Editors Weblog, Lake County News Sun, The Raw Story and Boing Boing

TBD:
Pepper-sprayed provocateur Patrick Howley: Does he really exist?

Discussion: Gawker, On Media's Blog, Guardian and New York Magazine

Katie Feola / Adweek:

News Corp. Shareholders Advised to Oust Rupert Murdoch — Another top independent proxy advisory service is recommending News Corp. investors take a hard line with their voting shares at the upcoming annual meeting—and this time, Rupert Murdoch is the target.

Discussion: Guardian and Bloomberg

Guardian:

An experiment in opening up the Guardian's news coverage — Help shape the Guardian's news coverage by talking to editors and reporters about upcoming stories as we work on them — We often report big breaking stories as they happen, but have you ever wondered what stories we're working on - and what's about to drop?

Discussion: GigaOM, 10,000 Words, Mashable!, Editors Weblog, Press Gazette, Rhetorica, Magforum, Poynter, Jon Slattery, eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism

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: Media & Entertainment, Broadcasting & Cable, Publishing Executive …, paidContent, FishbowlNY, AdAge, The Huffington Post, NetNewsCheck Latest, Adweek, Multichannel and The New York Observer

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Keller on public editors: ‘Even proctology has its good results’ — In an hourlong-plus conversation with Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, Bill Keller acknowledged he's still making the transition to former New York Times executive editor: … Keller, who reads the paper in print and on his iPad …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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: TVNewser and The Huffington Post

David Kaplan / paidContent:UK:

HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition — The Huffington Post is planning a French edition—Le Huffington Post—with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendante. It was not clear if the three will own an equal share.

Discussion: Poynter, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, Business Wire, Softpedia News, Press Gazette, The New York Observer, On Media's Blog and TechCrunch

Patrick Smith / themediabriefing.com: Huffington Post UK editor: 'We're not in competition with newspaper websites'

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

Felix Salmon:

How the New Yorker monetizes old content — I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from its back issues. — It started* with “At the Ballpark”, an iPad-only collection of New Yorker baseball writing from 1929 to 2011 …

MediaShift:

Students Go Old School, Create Newspaper with Typewriters, Xactos, Film Cameras — Education content is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and BusinessJournalism.org …

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.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

For Magazines, the Recession Is Back — After a strong first half of 2011, ad spending in magazines fell back on its face in the third quarter, according to official tallies by the Publishers Information Bureau. Total advertising pages for the industry fell 5.6% in the third quarter versus …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, paidContent and MPA

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: Editors Weblog, NetNewsCheck Latest, Adweek, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette and The Next Web

James Robinson / Guardian:

News International donates £2.8m to charity from final edition of News of the World — News of the World's final edition - which sold 3.8m - will benefit charities including Barnardo's and Forces Children's Trust — News International will donate £2.8m from the sale …

Discussion: Media Diary and The Huffington Post

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: FishbowlNY, Business Insider and Talking Biz News