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6:45 PM ET, November 2, 2011

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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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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
News Corp.: Revenues Up But Net Income Down On UK Charges, Failed BSkyB Bid  —  No news yet on what might be happening with executive succession at News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) but the company today reported a seven percent growth in revenue for Q1 to nearly $8 billion.
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. COO: James Murdoch Has Done a Good Job  —  James Murdoch.  Image by Getty Images via @daylife  —  News Corp. executives were hoping to use the company's earnings call Wednesday to turn the page on the hacking scandal, but with fresh revelations this week about discord within …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Product Runway: Are You In or Out?  —  I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., 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, a personalized news reader …
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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.
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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The Guardian:
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal – full judgment
Discussion: Guardian and VentureBeat
Raphael G. Sattter / Associated Press:
As Assange awaits ruling, WikiLeaks faces its fate
Discussion: Gawker
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’
Discussion: AllThingsD and Wall Street Journal
David Gelles / Financial Times:   AOL chief plays down Yahoo takeover
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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Associated Press:   Harry Potter Helps Time Warner Profit
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The One Question You Should Never Ask Chris Matthews  —  Chris Matthews reading a passage from his new book about John F. Kennedy  —  Be it known: Chris Matthews does not use a ghostwriter.  The “Hardball” host does all his own writing, and he resents the idea that anyone would ever think otherwise.
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.
Discussion: Adweek and Wall Street Journal
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Eric Jackson / TheStreet.com:
Yahoo!: Digging Into So-Called Scoops
Discussion: Poynter and Business Insider
Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:   Yahoo and BBC team up to bring more Arabic content to the web
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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Anthony Crupi / Adweek:
Cable Unit Props Up Ailing NBC
Discussion: rbr.com and AdAge
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” …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Forbes and Editors Weblog
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Fewer Buyers Than Expected For Philadelphia Newspaper Tablets
Discussion: TabTimes
Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:
Columbia Journalism Review Names New Editor-in-Chief
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Paul Jowdy Jumps to WWD as Vice President, Publisher
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Newspaper stocks down after circulation report
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Adweek Names Lisa Granatstein Managing Editor
Amy Siskind / The Huffington Post:
Blaming Amy  —  Two weeks ago today, a college friend communicated …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Audie Cornish to Fill In on NPR's ‘All Things Considered’
Discussion: On Media's Blog and Poynter
Veena Bissram / Mashable:
Contently Provides An Open Marketplace for Writers and Publishers To Connect
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mashable!
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Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Gives Doug Vaughn Oversight of Most Late-Night Programming
Discussion: rbr.com
Andrew Gauthier / TVSpy:
Belo Strikes Long-Term Retrans Deal with DirecTV
Discussion: FishbowlNY and SocialTimes.com
Amy Wicks / WWD:
Harper's Bazaar Gears Up for Revamp
Lance Howland / Walnut Creek Patch:
Bay Area News Group Cuts 34 Editorial Jobs
Discussion: Poynter and LA Observed
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Discovery's Earnings Up in Third Quarter
Discussion: Multichannel
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Daily Beast TV Goes Live
Discussion: FishbowlNY
David Jolly / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo, French Magazine, Firebombed
Heidi Kulicke / Editor & Publisher ®:
How Media Companies Are Fighting Back Against Hackers