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7:35 AM ET, November 1, 2011

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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
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
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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
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
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.
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
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 …
 
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