Mediagazer: Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs? (Steve Zeitchik/LA Times)

3:00 PM ET, October 25, 2011

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …

Steve Zeitchik / LA Times:

Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs? — EXCLUSIVE: Steve Jobs was front and center again Sunday night when “60 Minutes” aired its much-anticipated interview with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. It proably won't be the last time the Apple co-founder will dominate our screens.

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Media Monkey / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch bows to Steve Jobs

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year. So, after its next launches in the new year, Netflix will freeze international expansion.

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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks — Netflix is in for a brutal morning: The stock is down 35% in pre-market trading from its $118.84 close yesterday as some influential Wall Street analysts tell investors it's time to dump the stock following …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Reed Hastings Lays Out the Netflix Comeback Plan

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MediaPost:
Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Netflix Shares Tank After Losing Subscribers, And Terrible Guidance

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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

News Corp: James Murdoch suffers confidence blow in vote — News Corp shareholders have dealt a significant blow to James Murdoch and his brother Lachlan at this year's annual general meeting, with around a third of all shareholders voting against both — James Murdoch has been re-elected …

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Dalya Alberge / Guardian:

Phone hacking: book publishing executives targeted — Agent who worked with Linda McCartney and publisher of Katie Price autobiography told they may have been under surveillance — The police investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World has now spread to the publishing world …

John Koblin / WWD:

Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog — HUFFING AND PUFFING: The New York Times and The Huffington Post feud isn't going away. — Times lawyers fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington on Monday, claiming that The Huffington Post's new blog, Parentlode …

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds — Study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, in collaboration with the Economist Group, also found more users prefer to view news via browsers rather than apps — US tablet survey found that browsers are more popular than apps for consuming news

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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt — Several sources close to CBS Interactive tell us that CNET is not in talks to buy gadget news site gdgt, shooting down a report that a buy is imminent. — One source said that CNET hadn't even approached gdgt for a round of talks.

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Larry King Confirms Radio Rumors... Plus a New TV Show? — Talkers magazine speaks to Larry King, where the longtime host of “Larry King Live,” reveals that he is very close to a new LA-based radio show (as long rumored) as well as a new TV program: … continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:

Bloomberg Media To Be Rocked with Discrimination Lawsuit — I've just learned that Bloomberg Media's International Managing Director of Television Brian Martinez—who I knew back in the '90s club days—is filing suit with that company for having been relieved of his duties in July.

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ‘UK national security issues’ — US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police — British police authorities ordered the removal of 135 videos from YouTube in the first half of this year …

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Facebook Co-Founder Aims to Bring Venture Capital Model to Media — The Knight Foundation, a sponsor of journalism-innovation projects, named Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and digital experts from Harvard and MIT to its board, where they'll take a venture-capital-like approach to media.

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry — Over the past five years, very few companies have single-handedly help jump-start the streaming media industry and propelled the market forward as a whole. Looking back, companies like YouTube …

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Zachary Sniderman / Mashable!:
Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New Ebooks

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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:

Obama freezes local reporters out of S.F. event — President Obama is scheduled to appear before hundreds of donors at a $7,500-a-plate noontime fundraiser today at San Francisco's W Hotel - but not a single local reporter will be allowed inside to cover his only stop in the area, the White House said Monday.

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