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9:00 AM ET, October 24, 2011

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 Top News: 
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Bonuses Worthy of Protest for Gannett and Tribune Executives  —  Almost two weeks ago, USA Today put its finger on why the Occupy Wall Street protests continued to gain traction.  —  “The bonus system has gone beyond a means of rewarding talent and is now Wall Street's primary business …
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Netflix, Inc.:
Netflix to Launch Service in the UK and Ireland for Streaming Movies and TV Shows in Early 2012  —  Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the leading global Internet movie subscription service, today announced it will expand to the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012, offering unlimited TV shows …
Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
4 Questions With ProPublica's New Social Media Editor  —  The role of social media editor is a relatively new, and highly coveted, spot in newsrooms.  While there are still a lot of questions about what exactly this job entails, everyone can agree that there needs to be at least …
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
WikiLeaks' money woes brings end to leak of secrets  —  WikiLeaks is to stop publishing state secrets because it is running out of money, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.  —  The whistleblowing website set up by Julian Assange said that it is temporarily suspending publication of leaks to fight a “blockade” by credit card companies.
Newspaper Association of America:
Traffic to newspaper websites increases 20 percent in past year  —  Double-digit growth in multiple categories demonstrates high level of engagement by newspaper website visitors;  —  More than 110 million unique visitors in Q3; strong reach in key demographics continues
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
CBS posts the full 60 Minutes interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson  —  The tech world is in a frenzy over the release of Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs, including CBS.  The TV network has just posted the full interview online.  —  The special interview was recorded …
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Agency says HuffPo story payout sets precedent  —  The website Huffington Post has made a payment to a news agency which accused it of using stories without credit or consent.  —  Vienna-headquartered Central European News (CEN) invoiced HuffPo after discovering it had covered two stories …
RELATED:
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:   Newspaper Guild Drops Boycott of the Huffington Post
Bloomberg:
Hinton Faces Questions Over Two News Corp. Scandals at Hearing  —  Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Les Hinton was one of Rupert Murdoch's closest associates for half a century.  His role at the top of News Corp. makes him the focus of British lawmakers' questions about two scandals at his former employer.
Discussion: Guardian and @jamesro47
Maha El Dahan / Reuters:
Egyptian talk show host suspends show in protest  —  A popular Egyptian talk show host said on Friday he would suspend his programme until further notice due to increasing censorship pressure after an episode discussing the army's handling of a protest that left at least 25 dead failed to air.
Tony Ortega / Runnin' Scared:
Scientology Targeted South Park's Parker and Stone in Investigation  —  ​Another interesting revelation at Marty Rathbun's blog this morning: Rathbun released what he said was an internal Scientology document which suggests that the church targeted Trey Parker and Matt Stone …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Just How Much Damage Did Netflix Really Do To Itself?  —  How bad was Q3 for Netflix?  By Wall Street's reckoning, an unmitigated disaster: Three months ago, when the company reported its Q2 numbers, its stock was at $281.  Now it's at $117, down 58 percent.
David Leigh / Guardian:
BBC inquiry over solicitor's ‘rogue reporter’ phone-hacking admission  —  Julian Pike from Farrers law firm said he had known NoW executives were making misleading statements about scandal  —  The BBC has referred the royal solicitors, Farrers, to the profession's disciplinary body …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
In a Gloomy Economy, TV Sitcoms Are Making a Comeback  —  In television, funny is money again.  —  For the better part of a decade, while drama became more ambitious, and reality shows became more outrageous, comedy had the worst track record in prime time.
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mattel buys Hit Entertainment for $680m
Discussion: Adweek
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
DAVID FRUM: It's Time We Republicans Finally Admitted That Paul Krugman Might Be Right
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC to Take Another Crack at Boosting Station Disclosures
Craig Silverman / Regret the Error:
The New York Times offers an amusing Angry Birds correction
Discussion: Gawker and New York Times
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
‘Public Parts’ and its public parts: In a networked world, can a book go viral?
Discussion: BuzzMachine and bookforum.com
 Earlier Picks: 
Heather Ford / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Wikipedia Isn't Journalism, But Are Wikipedians Reluctant Journalists?
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Don't think of it as a newspaper — it's a data platform
Thanks:mathewi
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why Apple's virtual Newsstand is driving a surge in magazine, newspaper iPad app subscriptions
Stephen Singer / Associated Press:
Official: NBC Sports relocating to Connecticut