Mediagazer: Layoffs follow pay cut at Poynter's St. Petersburg Times (Julie Moos/Poynter)

1:30 PM ET, October 10, 2011

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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.

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Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

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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.

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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.

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.

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

Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

Court Order Seeks Email Data of WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum — 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 …

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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.

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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

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

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) …

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Dylan Byers / Adweek:

British Invasion: ‘Guardian’ to Join Gawker, ‘Daily Mail’ in Soho U.K. paper's U.S. operation will take over ‘Onion’ offices By Dylan Byers — A month after Guardian News & Media launched the homepage for its expanded U.S. operation, guardiannews.com, the stateside digital team is already planning …

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:

FED UP WITH WEAK REPORTING ON OCCUPY WALL STREET, THIS GUY WENT DOWN THERE AND DID THE JOB HIMSELF — See Robert David Graham, Independent reporting of #OccupyWallStreet … Now compare to Erin Burnett, CNN. ("What are they protesting? No one seems to know.")

Discussion: Brooklyn Mutt

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Former NBC News Executive Ed Planer Dies — Ed Planer, who rose from the ranks of local TV news ultimately heading up NBC News's European operations, has died. Ed Planer began his career in New Orleans in the 1950s, first as an anchor and later as news director at WDSU.

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