Mediagazer: Canadian Co-Anchors Freaked Out On Live Television When They Learned Their Network's Sports … (Ariel Sandler/Business Insider)

2:45 PM ET, November 3, 2011

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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

New round of belt-tightening at L.A. Times — According to a couple of independent newsroom sources, Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton called meetings on Wednesday to inform affected people that the design, news operations and web operations staffs would be combined into one department, along with at least some of the copy editors.

Discussion: Free Press

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Despite Apple spat, Financial Times digital subscriptions see 30% growth in the last year — The Financial Times has had an interesting few months when it comes to its digital strategy, but it appears to be paying off as the business publication has announced 30% year-on-year growth …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, paidContent, Financial Times and Noted

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Fifth of FT.com traffic coming from mobile devices — Overall digital subscriptions at the FT are up 30%, according to publisher Pearson, with 15% of new subscriptions for mobile devices — A fifth of the traffic to the FT's website is now coming from mobile devices, publisher Pearson announced today.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
FT Group revenue up 6%

Discussion: BtoB Magazine, Epicenter, mnilive.com and Press Gazette

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Won't Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave Away — Amazon's self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing, has a rule: If you use it to publish a book, and then sell that same book on another site at a lower price, KDP retains the right to drop the price of your book in the Kindle Store too.

Discussion: Forbes, Future of Journalism and The Next Web

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon, Now a Book Lender — Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles — As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices …

Discussion: Forbes, Amazon.com, Wired Magazine, CNET News, GigaOM, WebProNews, paidContent, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Techland, Pocket-lint, GeekWire and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Amazon Is Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated)

Discussion: The New York Observer, TeleRead, GalleyCat and eBookNewser

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Shannon High Jumps to CNN, Will Oversee New Morning Show — TVNewser has learned Shannon High is leaving NBC's Peacock Productions to join CNN where she will oversee the new four-hour morning show. An announcement on the hire, and the new show, could come as early as tomorrow.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, TVWeek.com, Inside Cable News and TVSpy

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

CNN Makes Morning Lineup Revamp Official — Soledad O'Brien returns to early hours with Ashleigh Banfield, Zoraida Sambolin — CNN has made the changes to its morning lineup official, announcing Thursday that Soledad O'Brien would return to hosting the network's mornings along …

Alex Williams / New York Times:

Short Sainthood for Steve Jobs — THE glowing obituaries appeared moments after Steve Jobs's death was announced on Oct. 5. “Silicon Valley's radiant Sun King,” eulogized The San Jose Mercury News. His name was floated for Time magazine's Person of the Year, though the honor traditionally goes to the living.

Brandon Griggs / CNN:

Steve Jobs biography is top-selling book in the U.S. — (CNN) — In its first week on sale, Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the U.S., making it by far the top-selling book in the country. — The book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” …

Discussion: Bookseller news, CNET News and Speakeasy

Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:

Journalists get a photo byline in Google News (but only those on Google+) — Google has started the roll out of a new feature giving journalists a photo byline for stories displayed on Google News. But there is a caveat - for the byline to be displayed journalists must have a Google+ account.

Discussion: Inside Search, Nieman Journalism Lab, Search Engine Land and Alexander Howard

Emily Bell:
Google+ and Journalist Profiles: the best thing since sliced bread or the worst thing since bundled browsers?

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

AP issues staff guidelines on retweets, no ‘personal opinions’ allowed or implied — The Associated Press has added a new entry on retweeting to its social media guidelines. Staffers are reminded to keep their opinions to themselves. … Disclaimers — like “retweets do not constitute endorsements” …

Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:

Cartoonist Susie Cagle Arrested at Occupy Oakland Protests — Second generation cartoonist Susie Cagle, daughter of Daryl Cagle, was arrested last night, along with dozens of others, during the Occupy Oakland protesters. Cagle has been working on an illustrated history of Occupy Oakland, fundraising for the project through Spot.us.

Alysia Santo / CJR:
Oakland Local Covers Occupy Oakland

Discussion: Guardian

D.M. Levine / Adweek:

Four Years In, Fox Business Network Still Treading Water — It was an abysmal month for Fox News' young sibling channel. Fox Business Network saw an average daily viewership of around 65,000 for October, according to Nielsen, which also happened to be the month of the network's four-year anniversary.

Discussion: TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:

Twitter quietly debuts new ‘Top News’ and ‘Top People’ search features — Twitter's web interface got a couple of nice new additions Wednesday, seemingly aimed at making it easier to find relevant content when conducting a search within the site. — For some users, Twitter's website …

Discussion: WebProNews

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: How Twitter's new ‘top news’ search results will help (and hurt) publishers

A.J. Daulerio / Deadspin:

Why A Former ESPN VP Filed A Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Denying He Masturbated In Front Of Erin Andrews — Last month, ESPN announced it was eliminating its bi-coastal, 25-person Content Development department, which was responsible for the network's 30 for 30 series, among other things.

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Ali Velshi Gets New Domestic Role at CNN, Adds CNNI Program — Along with the announcement of its new morning lineup, CNN has announced a new role for anchor and correspondent Ali Velshi. For CNN/U.S. Velshi will launch new “signature segments” next month in which he analyzes economic, political or global news of the day.

Discussion: Mediaite

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Murdoch fails to win Hunt's full backing — Culture secretary dodges issue of whether Murdoch is ‘fit and proper’ person to run BSkyB in wake of phone-hacking scandal — The culture secretary declined an opportunity to throw his support behind James Murdoch's continuing chairmanship of BSkyB …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. COO: James Murdoch Has Done a Good Job

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, Jon Slattery, Capital New York, paidContent:UK, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Julie Moos / Poynter:

ABC News previews exclusive Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly appearance — When ABC airs its interview with Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, the country may well hear from the recovering Congresswoman for the first time since she was shot at an Arizona constituent event in January.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Huffington Post

Ariel Sandler / Business Insider:

Canadian Co-Anchors Freaked Out On Live Television When They Learned Their Network's Sports Reporter Won A $2.5 Million Lottery — A Canadian news network aired the grand prize drawing in the BC Children's Hospital Dream Lottery on live television. — And the winner was a familiar name …