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3:20 PM ET, October 17, 2011

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Adweek:
Editorial Director Michael Wolff to Leave ‘Adweek’  —  Michael Wolff leaves his post as editorial director of leading media industry publication Adweek, parent company Prometheus Global Media announced today.  Executive editor Jim Cooper has been tapped to oversee the day-to-day operations …
Los Angeles Times:
McDonald's to launch in-store channel  —  Mark Burnett, BBC America and KABC-TV Eyewitness News will provide content for dine-in customers.  —  McDonald's customers will soon be able to have local school sports, movie previews and heartwarming human interest stories to go with their fries — McTV is here and in high definition.
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
John Miller to Join CBS, Bolstering ‘The Early Show’  —  Every week or so comes another signal that CBS is reshaping “The Early Show,” its low-rated morning newscast.  On Monday will come another: the announcement that John Miller is joining the network as a senior correspondent with a special emphasis on the morning show.
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Adweek managing editor Hillary Frey leaves for Yahoo News on heels of Michael Wolff exit  —  On the same day as Michael Wolff's sometimes tumultuous tenure as the editorial director of Adweek comes to end, the trade publication is losing another big name.  Hillary Frey, Adweek's managing editor, is joining Yahoo News.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Pew: Media not in love with Obama  —  Sarah Palin put an end to her possible presidential candidacy this month with a familiar parting critique: President Barack Obama has an unfair advantage as a candidate because he's got “about 90 percent of the media still there in his back pocket.”
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Republican Debates Are a Hot Ticket on TV  —  In September 2007, Fox News put Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani and a man who was, back then, a long shot for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain, on a debate stage in New Hampshire.
Jennifer Preston / Media Decoder:
A Print Focus on Social Media  —  Four new monthly magazines advising business owners on how to use social media tools will go on sale on Monday.  Each publication focuses on one of the major platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.  —  The magazines, published by GSG World Media …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio  —  With Skype's sale to Microsoft finally sealed, one might wonder: What are Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the European serial entrepreneurs that have founded KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, up to next?  The surprising answer …
Discussion: ZDNet
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Former Time exec Sareyan tapped to run National Journal  —  David Bradley, the multi-millionaire magazine owner who turned his first-ever profit at The Atlantic last year, is now focusing on jump-starting his National Journal.  —  He's just hired Andy Sareyan, a former top executive of Time Inc …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Times libel appeal reaches Supreme Court  —  The Times announced in July last year it would seek to appeal a judgment which found the newspaper was not entitled to a defence of qualified privilege based on the Reynolds test of responsible journalism  —  The Supreme Court will consider whether …
Discussion: Guardian
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Adam Moss: NY Mag publishes new content every six minutes  —  Here's a tidbit that will likely make your organizational productivity seem wildly inadequate: NYmag.com publishes new material every six minutes.  Every six minutes.  —  You're welcome.  —  In a talk celebrating the 25th anniversary …
Discussion: Poynter
Zee / The Next Web:
Sesame Street's YouTube Channel Gets Hacked.  Badly.  —  Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite.  The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded.  A blurred screenshot is posted below.
Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:
Gannett Third-Quarter Profit Slides on Advertising, Circulation Declines  —  Gannett Co., the owner of 82 newspapers and 23 television stations, reported third-quarter profit decreased 1.6 percent as circulation and print- advertising revenue declined.  —  Net income fell to $99.8 million …
Discussion: Guardian
Steve Myers / Poynter:
NPR's Andy Carvin takes Twitter break to write book about covering Arab Spring via social media  —  Just after he logged his 100,000th tweet, NPR's Andy Carvin told people on Twitter that he's taking the week off so he can work on a book about covering the Arab Spring via social media.
Valentina Gimenez / MediaShift:
In Spain, ‘Little Black Book’ of Journalism Shows Profession in Crisis  —  Pressure from the publishing industry has weakened the watchdog role of journalists, turning them into lapdogs at the service of  —  corporations and politicians and unable to serve their readers.
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Google Wrapping Up Groundbreaking Deals To Launch 25+ Professionally Produced YouTube Channels: Debut In January  —  EXCLUSIVE: I've learned that Google has put Hollywood on notice to keep mum as it prepares to announce its big plan to redefine YouTube with 25 or so channels …
Discussion: Techland
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Rupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton Attend Steve Jobs Memorial Service  —  A memorial held for Steve Jobs yesterday at Stanford University attracted a bunch of big names, including News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, with whom Jobs was slated to unveil the Daily iPad newspaper, before he took his leave of absence.
Dan Roberts / Guardian:
Lessons from our open news trial  —  The first week of the Guardian's experiment in publishing its news lists has reaped advantages, but more is needed  —  Well, the sky didn't fall in.  One week in, and the remarkable thing about our experiment publishing The Guardian's list of upcoming stories …
Discussion: Poynter and Jon Slattery
Richard L. Brandt / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Bezos of Amazon: Birth of a Salesman  —  Behind the rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Richard L. Brandt on the founder's Texas roots, the site's chaotic early days, why negative reviews are allowed and his increasing use of personal data.  —  Jeffrey Preston Bezos was 4 years old …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
How To ‘Destroy’ And ‘Redefine’ Tech Blogging, From The Michael Jordan Of Blogging, MG Siegler  —  Departing TechCrunch blogger M.G. Siegler has written a couple posts on his personal blog, ParisLemon.com, explaining how he “destroyed tech blogging and redefined it.”
Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Instapaper 4.0 Adds Wikipedia, Tablet-Friendly Design To News Reader App  —  Marco Arment, the developer behind Instapaper and mobile tech blogger, has released an updated mobile version of his content-discovery and archiving tool.  The new Instapaper 4. now has a iPad-friendly design …
Adweek:
First Mover: Randy Falco Univision's new CEO says it's time to embrace the realities of the Hispanic media marketplace  —  You don't have loads of Spanish-language media experience under your belt.  ¿Habla Español?  —  [Laughs] I don't speak Spanish.
Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
Citizen journalism site Blottr expands into France and Germany  —  Citizen journalism breaking news site Blottr has launched in France in and is due to follow with a German site next week.  —  Blottr, which launched in the UK in August 2010 and received £1 million in funding to expand six months ago …
Michael Wolff / Adweek:
The Name Murdoch  —  It is impossible for the Murdochs to be voted off the board of News Corporation at the company's annual meeting to be held at the end of the week on the Fox lot in Los Angeles, as several of the most influential shareholder advisor groups have advocated.
Matt Lakin / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
UT student-publisher uses periodical to trumpet professor's affair with ex-wife  —  Junior psychology student John Durden distributes copies of the Athenaeum News newspaper Tuesday at the University of Tennessee.  The new student publication highlights campus life, student complaints …
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former Bloomberg Scribe Blasts WaPo  —  SOS!  WaPo needs an emergency fact checker.  —  Former mild-mannered Bloomberg White House Correspondent Ed Chen, now Federal Communications Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, finally had it over the weekend after WaPo ran a story calling …
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Managing Editor Stuart Marques Out at Daily News  —  The Daily News parted ways with its longtime senior managing editor, Stuart Marques, on Friday, according to a well-placed tipster.  —  Mr. Marques was brought in to the News in 2007 by the previous editor, Martin Dunn, a British import and News Corp. veteran.
Thanks:megan
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
USA Taps Yap.TV For New Social TV App  —  Today the USA television network has announced a partnership with Yap.TV to power its mobile social application.  Yap.TV is one of the hottest social TV apps on the App Store, offering users the chance to chat up television shows in real time.
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Hillsborough families call on Sun to name sources  —  Hillsborough Families Support Group calls on newspaper to reveal sources of controversial story ahead of House of Commons debate on 1989 disaster  —  A Liverpool fan holds up a poster calling on supporters to boycott the Sun in the wake of its Hillsborough coverage
Discussion: Guardian and David Higgerson
Cynthia Martens / WWD:
Franca Sozzani's Vogue Encyclo Launches  —  SEND IN YOUR IDEAS: Franca Sozzani, the techno-savvy editor in chief of Italian Vogue, has launched an online fashion encyclopedia, inviting readers to contribute articles on fashion, cinema, style icons, photographers and more.  Vogue Encyclo went live Oct. 10.
 
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