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12:10 AM ET, November 1, 2011

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
New website builds dossiers on journalists, hopes transparency will lead to trust  —  Ira Stoll is 38.  He has a Facebook page and a Twitter account.  His phone number is (718) 499-2199 and his email is ira@futureofcapitalism.com.  He went to college at Harvard, has worked at the Los Angeles Times …
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
New Site to Help You Find Out Who's Behind Your News  —  If you've ever read a news article and thought to yourself, “This writer seems like he's full of it/has an axe to grind/is just log-rolling for his cronies,” you might be interested in a new site launching this week.
James Robinson / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Milly Dowler police investigation may have been targeted  —  Lawyer for Surrey police tells Leveson inquiry there is evidence officers' phones were hacked  —  Several police officers who investigated the disappearance and murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002 …
Discussion: Media & Entertainment
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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
James Murdoch gets pay rise despite News Corp row
Discussion: Future of Journalism
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider, The Wrap and Poynter
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
DirecTV and News Corp. Avert Channel Blackout  —  6:30 p.m. |  Updated |  Representatives for DirecTV and News Corporation said Monday evening that they had averted a looming blackout of regional sports networks, FX and other Fox-owned cable channels.  —  After warring in public for a week …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Injunctions furore has calmed, editors tell select committee  —  UK newspaper, magazine and news wire editors tell the joint committee on privacy and injunctions that the industry did face a ‘spate of injunctions’ but that the situation has since calmed  —  The issue of privacy …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Editors due to give evidence on privacy and injunctions
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Jeremy Bloom / Red, Green and Blue:
Reporter videos his own arrest at Occupy Nashville  —  Back in the good ol' days, you could arrest someone and charge them with disorderly conduct or resisting arrest, maybe even charge them with being drunk in public.  And you were the police - it was your word against theirs.
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Huffpo's Brand Is Worth Way More Than AOL's, Study Shows  —  After AOL acquired the Huffington Post in February, CEO Tim Armstrong had some tough decisions to make regarding which of his company's brands to keep and which to discard in favor of the Huffpo versions.
Stephen Engelberg / ProPublica:
Raising Cain: When is a Scoop Ready to be Published?  —  Politico's story on possible sexual harassment by Herman Cain may be the biggest investigative scoop of the campaign season.  But it would be hard to deduce that from the facts as published.  —  The story lacks the key details needed …
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
NBC-Owned Stations Enhancing News Coverage, Hiring 130 People  —  NBCUniversal plans to enhance local news at its 10 owned television stations, hiring more than 130 people to cover more local news.  —  The company is making a “major investment” to ensure that its stations have …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Yes, yes, yes - publication of Gaddafi death pictures was justified  —  Chris Elliott, The Guardian's readers' editor, has waded into the contentious matter of whether it was right to publish pictures - especially on the front page - of Muammar Gaddafi's bloody corpse.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Jon Slattery
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Sam Donaldson on Co-Anchor ‘Jealousies’ and Why ‘The News Business Has Moved On’  —  There is no trick involved in tonight's Halloween treat for Boomer news junkies — Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts really are co-anchors again.  —  The hosts of ABC's ‘This Week’ from 1996 to '02 …
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
C-SPAN incorporates short-form tweets into long-form news coverage  —  It's hard to think of two communication platforms more different than C-SPAN and Twitter.  —  The former is a 32-year-old cable television network whose core mission is long-form coverage of news events …
Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
WaPo promotes Evans to ‘chief experience officer’  —  Laura Evans, the Washington Post's director of research analytics, has been promoted to a newly created position with a curious title: chief experience officer.  —  Publisher Katharine Weymouth's internal memo explaining the change is long …
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Revealed: Why Techmeme links to them instead of you!  —  Over time, nearly every major tech news publisher has asked us a variant of “Why do you always post them and not us?” or “Why did you pick them over us for that story when we posted first?”  So it's probably time to address this issue in a general way.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
US home entertainment spending growth defies slump  —  Spend on e-commerce services such as Netflix and Amazon soars more than 50% in Q3, helped by Blu-ray sales rise  —  A surge of more than 50% in spending on e-commerce services such as Netflix and Amazon - helped by booming sales …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Myspace Music Head Holt Lands as COO at Maker (Plus Cool Video!)  —  Courtney Holt, who stepped down as president of Myspace Music early this year, is taking a new job as COO of Maker Studios.  —  Holt has been an adviser to the Venice, Calif., new-generation production company …
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Hearst Hires Former Conde Nast COO, Promotes Digital Exec  —  David Carey, President of Hearst Magazines, announced two executive hires on Monday in the company's U.S. magazine division, bringing on Debi Chirichella as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Grant Whitmore as Vice President, Digital Media.
Discussion: MediaPost and MediaPost
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rachael Ray Magazine Counts One Issue as Two  —  The November issue of Every Day With Rachael Ray is a bounty of Thanksgiving goodness: 322 ideas, 121 recipes and 40-plus bonus pages.  —  But in one sense the publisher was a bit stingy.  —  Waiting inside the polyurethane wrapping …
 
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Benjamin Gottlieb / Neon Tommy:
LA Weekly Owner Names Ex-Girlfriend As Editor-in-Chief
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
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Kerry Benefield / Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:
The Onion's fake story no laughing matter for Santa Rosa institute
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Noah Davis / Business Insider:
AOL Really Missed The Boat On Mobile, But It's Trying To Catch Up By Charging Big Rates For Its New iPad App
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Mike Shields / Digiday:
Viacom Mines Social Media Buzz for Movie Site
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers' content
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
‘Rock Center’ Books Jon Stewart, As It Places Two Segments Online
Discussion: FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com and B&C
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Susan Krashinsky / Globe and Mail:
Postmedia plans to charge for online articles
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Arab Spring Reshapes Market for TV News
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Conde Nast Traveler's iPad App Has a Size Problem
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Disney Double Dips: Renews Netflix Deal for ABC Shows, Adds Amazon
Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Ebert measures up to celluloid's stoic heroes
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show
Discussion: Adweek