Mediagazer: Why Mitt Romney's Bypassing National Media (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

Marcus Vanderberg / FishbowlLA:

James Rainey Trading Media Column for Reporting — James Rainey wrote his last “On the Media” column for the Los Angeles Times Saturday, as the columnist will focus more on reporting on the media going forward. — LA Observed has the memo from the LAT announcing Rainey's new role at the newspaper:

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

A Year of Tina Brown and Newsweek Still Needs a Savior — When the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast was announced almost a year ago, it seemed like it might, at least, have the makings of a good story: charming nonagenarian audio tycoon teams up with a media mogul and celebrity editor …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Conde Nast Traveler's iPad App Has a Size Problem — The inaugural iPad edition of Conde Nast Traveler has arrived at Apple's Newsstand — and it's hefty. — The issue is 784 megabytes — substantially bigger than even Wired's first issue, which attracted a fair number of comments …

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Editors due to give evidence on privacy and injunctions — Editors of UK newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian and Sunday Times, are due to appear before the committee on privacy and injunctions this afternoon — The committee will ultimately make recommendations on the issue …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Disney Double Dips: Renews Netflix Deal for ABC Shows, Adds Amazon — Another example of why the Web video boom is (currently) a great boon to Big TV: Disney has announced not one but two deals to sell digital copies of its reruns. — Disney has re-upped a two-year-old deal with Netflix …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Why Mitt Romney's Bypassing National Media — NEW YORK — When a group of national political reporters arrived at Mitt Romney's New Hampshire summer house in July 2010 for an off-the-record barbecue, the former Massachusetts governor greeted them warmly and handed out beers from a nearby cooler.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

CNN Is Said to Be Revamping Its Morning Lineup — CNN, which remodeled its afternoon and evening schedule earlier this year, is now on the verge of remaking its morning schedule. — The channel, a unit of Time Warner, is expected to announce as early as this week that Soledad O'Brien …

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David Carr / New York Times:

Backpage.com Confronts New Fight Over Online Sex Ads — What if the price of having a vital, well-financed string of newspapers included rare, but inevitable, sexual predation of minors? — Not a tough call, right? But maybe more complicated than you think for the businesses involved.

Gordon MacMillan / The Wall Blog:

The Independent begins charging and launches £19.99 iPad app — by @gordonmacmillan, posted on 31 October, 2011 at 9:26 am, filed under Media Owners, Web and tagged Apple iPad, The Guardian, The Independent. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show — This time a year ago, the television industry was rife with worry about so-called cord-cutting — people dropping cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV over the Internet. — But for the most part, the cords remain intact, the latest crop of earnings reports indicate.

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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Arab Spring Reshapes Market for TV News — PARIS — As revolutions upend the political landscape across the Arab world, the news media landscape is shifting, too. — The market for Arabic-language television news, dominated for years by two satellite channels with close links to Arab rulers …

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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Will computer tablets help save newspapers? — In the fragmenting media landscape, a Philadelphia publisher embarks on a bold experiment. — The Philadelphia Media Network's Arnova 10 G2 tablet computer. (Akira Suwa, MCT / September 12, 2011)

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