Mediagazer: After Acquiring NAVTEQ Ad Group, Matchbin Becomes Radiate Media; Adds $22 Million In Financing (Rip Empson/TechCrunch)

Bloomberg:

Tribune Judge Rejects JPMorgan, Aurelius Reorganization Plans — Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Competing reorganization plans for Tribune Co. were rejected by a judge who threatened to put the biggest U.S. media company in bankruptcy under a trustee unless it improved its strategy for ending the case.

Discussion: Guardian

Joe Flint / Company Town:

DirecTV and News Corp. reach new deal — News Corp. has struck a new deal that will keep its powerful cable and broadcast channels on satellite broadcaster DirecTV. — The two sides had been bickering over a new contract and DirecTV was set to drop more than two dozen News Corp.-owned Fox cable networks …

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 …

Discussion: rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel and Adweek

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Adobe, Looking To Grab Rising Online Video Ad Dollars, Buys Auditude — Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is continuing to build its advertising business through major acquisitions and this time, it's buying Auditude, which operates a platform for managing online video ads.

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

After Acquiring NAVTEQ Ad Group, Matchbin Becomes Radiate Media; Adds $22 Million In Financing — Matchbin, a company that creates CMS solutions and hosts websites for community newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations, announced today that it has acquired NAVTEQ Media Solution's Radio and Television Group.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media — As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network and sports hub, will joined by The Verge, a personal tech site from Joshua Topolsky …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

HarperCollins' Acquisition Of Thomas Nelson Is An Investment In Digital — HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson—publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real—for an undisclosed sum in a deal that will be finalized by the end of the year.

Discussion: HarperCollins Publishers, Media Decoder and GalleyCat

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 …

Discussion: Future Journalism Project

Discussion: Future of Journalism and The Future of Capitalism

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.

Discussion: Future Journalism Project and Nieman Journalism Lab

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 …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Biggest Advertiser on Kindle of Late? Amazon — Early Adopting Marketers Like the Results, but Haven't Made Device a Regular Buy — Yet — Almost six months after the first Kindle with Special Offers arrived bearing on-screen ads for national brands such as Buick, Olay and Visa …

Ben Blanchard / Reuters:

China shuts 50 microblogs for porn, vulgarity — (Reuters) - China has shut 50 microblogs for distributing pornography and carrying “vulgar content”, state media said on Monday, as the government steps up monitoring of the internet. — “The microblogs were shut down for violations …

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Jack Shafer, Latest Open Salon Blog, ABCNEWS, The New Yorker Blog, Mediaite and Future of Journalism

Paul Tash / St. Petersburg Times:

St. Petersburg Times changing its name to Tampa Bay Times — Since I started here as a reporter in 1978, I have answered my phone with some version of “St. Pete Times.” I will need to learn a new habit. — Starting Jan. 1, this newspaper will become the Tampa Bay Times.

Discussion: Poynter

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.

Discussion: SiliconFilter, TechCrunch and Trends in the Living Networks, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, The Huffington Post, Red, Green, and Blue and Poynter

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

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

A reporter upsets the precedent, manages rare switch from ‘Post’ to ‘Journal’ — Back in 2007 when News Corp. bought The Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, it seemed likely that the company would be able to stem some losses at The New York Post by finding, well, synergies between the two papers.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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 …

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