Mediagazer: Belo Strikes Long-Term Retrans Deal with DirecTV (Andrew Gauthier/TVSpy)

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.

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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

Discussion: Guardian

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.”

Discussion: AllThingsD

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: Poynter, AllThingsD and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

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

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News: Yahoo News hires David Chalian as Washington bureau chief

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

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: Gawker and www.thetakeaway.org

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 and paidContent

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 …

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

Lance Howland / Walnut Creek Patch:

Bay Area News Group Cuts 34 Editorial Jobs — From Staff Reports — The Bay Area News Group, which publishes the Walnut Creek-based Contra Costa Times, the Oakland Tribune and daily newspapers serving cities throughout the East Bay, cut 34 newsroom positions Tuesday to reduce costs as it attempts to shore up its online presence.

Discussion: Poynter

Ana Radelat / AdAge:

FCC's New Political Ad Disclosure Plan Has Broadcasters Concerned — Planned Website would List Who's Behind an Ad, How Much They Paid for It — Just as a banner season for political advertising is starting, the Obama administration has thrown broadcasters a curveball …

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

Discovery's Earnings Up in Third Quarter — UPDATED: Advertising, distribution revenues gain — Discovery Communications reported higher profits in the third quarter thanks to higher advertising revenue and $77 million from its recent deal with Netflix. — The results were better than expected …

Discussion: Multichannel

Andrew Gauthier / TVSpy:

Belo Strikes Long-Term Retrans Deal with DirecTV — Belo stations will remain on DirecTV. — In an 11th hour announcement-similar to the one DirecTV and Fox made a day earlier-the satellite provider reported late Tuesday that it had reached a new retrans agreement with Belo, ending talk of a possible blackout.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, SocialTimes.com and TVNewser

Amy Wicks / WWD:

Harper's Bazaar Gears Up for Revamp — A NEW HARPER'S LOOK BY SPRING: After a decade as editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, Glenda Bailey is plotting big changes for the magazine and WWD has learned she's hired Robin Derrick of Spring Studios to help her make them.

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

Discussion: TVNewser

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

The sideways numbers you'll see in today's newspaper circulation report — The latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures will be released this morning, and I can confidently predict totals for individual newspaper organizations and for the industry will be neither up nor down. They will be sideways.

Discussion: Media Nation, MediaPost, WWD and LA Observed

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