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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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World Now, Gawker, PC Magazine, Forbes, Future of Journalism and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »
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Raphael G. Sattter / Associated Press:
As Assange awaits ruling, WikiLeaks faces its fate
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Gawker
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Liveblogging Yahoo's Product Runway: Are You In or Out? — I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Ca. to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant's attempt to show that it can still innovate. — First and foremost is the launch of Livestand …
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Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
Yahoo and BBC team up to bring more Arabic content to the web
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Future of Journalism
Eric Jackson / TheStreet.com:
Yahoo!: Digging Into So-Called Scoops
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Poynter and Business Insider
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.”
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Murdoch Clan Met with Family Therapist to Discuss News Corp.'s Future — New York, N.Y.— Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison reports that “The [Murdoch] siblings had been in family counseling with a psychologist over the issue of succession” since before last February.
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The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Reuters
Edward Wyatt / Media Decoder:
Court Affirms ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’ Ruling — WASHINGTON — Janet Jackson's nipple just can't seem to stay out of court. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday again threw out a $550,000 fine against CBS by the Federal Communications Commission for Janet Jackson's famed “wardrobe malfunction” …
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The Wrap, rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Hillicon Valley
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Comcast Earnings Up 5% as Fewer Cancel Cable; NBCU Results Mixed — Comcast Corp. reported a 51 percent increase in revenue and 5 percent increase in profits in its third quarter earnings Wednesday. — The nation's biggest cable company lost 165,000 cable subscribers, down from 275,000 in the same quarter in 2010.
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Forbes, GigaOM and Company Town, more at Techmeme »
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Time Warner's Bewkes: Netflix actually helps us — In the past, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes might have been critical of Netflix's ability to compete with traditional TV networks. But he has softened his tone lately, talking up the additional value that subscription video-on-demand services …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Time Warner Trims Its Excesses
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TVNewser, Company Town, On Media's Blog and Guardian
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.
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Future of Journalism
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Audie Cornish to Fill In on NPR's ‘All Things Considered’ — Audie Cornish will fill in for Michele Norris on the NPR program “All Things Considered” next year, the public radio organization said Wednesday. — The announcement came one week after Ms. Norris, a co-host of “All Things Considered” …
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On Media's Blog and Poynter
Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Gives Doug Vaughn Oversight of Most Late-Night Programming — Exec expands role to ‘SNL,’ ‘Late Night,’ ‘Last Call;’ Telegdy to keep ‘Tonight Show’ duties — NBC has re-upped Doug Vaughn's contract, expanding the program executive's role to add responsibility for most of the network's late-night programs.
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rbr.com
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 …
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New York Times and Editors Weblog
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 …
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Multichannel
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:
Poynter, Gawker, www.thetakeaway.org and The Daily Caller
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Yahoo's IntoNow comes to the iPad with more social perks — Fully 88 percent of people who own tablets such as the iPad say they use them at the same time that they're watching TV, according to research released last month by Nielsen. Now Yahoo is keen to make the most out of that trend.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Adweek Names Lisa Granatstein Managing Editor — Adweek has named Lisa Granatsein as its new Managing Editor. Granatstein comes to Adweek from Mochila, a content syndication network and platform, where she had been since 2008. — The move actually marks a return to home of sorts for Granatstein …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Draws Viewers With the Madoffs — Interest in the first interview with the wife and son of Bernard L. Madoff lifted “60 Minutes” to an unusually strong ratings performance Sunday night. — The venerable CBS newsmagazine scored its highest overall audience in a year …
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