Mediagazer: Three lessons news sites can take from the launch of The Verge (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

10:55 AM ET, November 2, 2011

Top News:

Robert Booth / Guardian:

Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition — High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations.

Discussion: Gawker, World Now, Forbes, PC Magazine, Future of Journalism and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Raphael G. Sattter / Associated Press:

As Assange awaits ruling, WikiLeaks faces its fate — LONDON (AP) — As Julian Assange awaits a judge's extradition verdict, it could be WikiLeaks' very future that's at stake. — Its finances under pressure and some of its biggest revelations already public, WikiLeaks may not have the strength …

Discussion: Gawker

The Guardian:

Julian Assange loses extradition appeal - full judgment

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Ad Sales Increase. But About Those Domestic Numbers ... Here's a first look at AOL Q3 earnings: Revenue of $532 million and an earnings loss of $0.02 per share. Wall Street estimates for the company tend to be all over the map, but Yahoo Finance thinks …

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL's Armstrong: ‘Benefits Are Coming Into View’ — AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong offered a much more triumphant sounding note when he began the Q3 earnings call, seeking to convince long-suffering investors that his plan at turning around the company were finally “coming into view.”

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:

Yahoo and BBC team up to bring more Arabic content to the web — Yahoo Maktoob has just signed a deal with BBC Arabic which will see the BBC's content shared on Yahoo's Arabic site. — According to Yahoo Middle East's Head of Audience, Hosam El Sokkari, all the content …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Eric Jackson / TheStreet.com:

Yahoo!: Digging Into So-Called Scoops — Stock quotes in this article:YHOO, AAPL, AKAM, ICLK, GOOG, MSFT, AOL — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Along with the broader market, Yahoo!(YHOO) has been sacked this week. — It is now back to where it was trading in early October.

Discussion: Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Yahoo News hires David Chalian as Washington bureau chief — David Chalian, currently the political editor at “PBS Newshour,” will become the Washington bureau chief of Yahoo News later this month. — The move is part of Yahoo's renewed focus on original content and political coverage of the 2012 presidential election.

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Wired' Bringing Advertisers and Its Blogs Closer Together — It may have taken nontraditional publishers like Federated Media to pave the way for “conversational media,” in which advertisers mix more directly with the blogging community. But now premium content brands want to get in on the act.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

NYT Nixes Credit for Politico on Cain Story — The waters are getting muddied with the alleged sexual harassment story on Herman Cain. Since Monday, Politico has been getting loads of credit for breaking the news — on TV, online, and in print. The publication's Jonathan Martin …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Limbaugh Denounces Herman Cain Story

Discussion: Washington Post, Erik Wemple, ABCNEWS and Slate

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Three lessons news sites can take from the launch of The Verge — Maybe it's just the 30-something former rock critic in me, but I keep accidentally calling new gadget site The Verge The Verve instead. But whatever you call it, The Verge's launch today is one of the most anticipated in the online news space in some time.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, NYConvergence.com, Adweek and paidContent

David Jolly / New York Times:

Charlie Hebdo, French Magazine, Firebombed — PARIS — The office of a French satirical magazine here was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday, the publisher said, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections.

Discussion: www.thetakeaway.org

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Daily Beast TV Goes Live — As an in-house advertisement in the Halloween issue of Newsweek promised, Tina Brown's dormant TV career is back from the dead. Daily Beast TV, the online video channel The Observer first caught wind of in July, has launched on the Beast's website.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Ratings: ‘Rock Center’ Off to Bad Start as Halloween Cuts Into Ratings All Around — “Rock Center with Brian Williams” is off to a bad start, debuting 38 percent lower than the premiere of “The Playboy Club,” the now-canceled drama it replaced in the Mondays-at-10 timeslot.

Discussion: TVNewser and rbr.com

Bill Carter / New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Draws Viewers With the Madoffs

Discussion: TVNewser

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times top latest circulation report — ABC has released circulation figures for the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2011. This is the second reporting period in which ABC is counting circulation differently, so you can't compare current figures to previous periods.

Discussion: MarketWatch, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, Wall Street Journal, Media Decoder, Media News, Adweek, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, Capital New York, Forbes and Future of Journalism

David Kaplan / paidContent:
Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers' Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent

Discussion: BtoB Magazine

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The sideways numbers you'll see in today's newspaper circulation report

Discussion: Media Nation, MediaPost, WWD, LA Observed and NewsBulletin Connection

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Phone hacking: Internal News International documents published — The culture, media and sport select committee publishes documents submitted by law firm Farrer & Co, including internal News International emails and manuscript conversation notes — A batch of internal News International documents …

Discussion: Guardian