Mediagazer: James Rainey Trading Media Column for Reporting (Marcus Vanderberg/FishbowlLA)

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:

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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 …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Ebert measures up to celluloid's stoic heroes — Life Itself: the new memoir from the legendary Sun-Times film critic — No one in Chicago better embodies grace at twilight than Roger Ebert, who has written openly and frankly about the physical disasters that cost him his lower face, his voice, and his ability to swallow food.

Nat Ives / AdAge:

What Matters Most in Magazine and Newspaper iPad Apps? Quality, Report Says — Too Many Apps Are Still Minimally Enhanced PDFs — Publishers, don't start skimping on your iPad editions now. Magazine and newspaper apps' quality seems to be the most important factor in their success with consumers …

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