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2:25 PM ET, November 4, 2011

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Man arrested over alleged police payments named as Sun journalist  —  Reporter arrested over alleged payments to police officers believed to be paper's district editor, Jamie Pyatt  —  A Sun journalist has been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's investigation into alleged payments to police officers by newspapers.
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Begins Settlement Program for Phone-Hacking Victims  —  News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. unit started a voluntary settlement program for thousands of potential victims of phone hacking by the company's News of the World tabloid, which was shuttered in July as the scandal expanded.
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp HR chief quits
Business Wire:
Beryl Cook to Step Down as Chief Human Resources Officer of News Corporation
Discussion: Poynter
Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook  —  McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.  —  At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” …
Mark Fitzgerald / Poynter:
Booted for plagiarism, California columnist finds his Patch  —  A California writer who lost his newspaper column after plagiarizing has explained himself on the local Patch site, where he's now a blogger.  Why?  —  Nicole Charky, the Patch editor for the towns of Montrose and La Crescenta …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details  —  Sitting down?  Good.  Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company.  We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in the Nook line …
Wall Street Journal:
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business  —  Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite  —  Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.
Erika Fry / CJR:
Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street  —  A good sign came out of New York City's criminal court yesterday for journalists who have been swept up in arrests at the Occupy Wall Street protests.  —  Disorderly conduct charges were dropped against WNET's MetroFocus …
Discussion: Forbes and Mediaite
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
CBS turned down an ad-based Apple TV deal  —  CBS CEO Les Moonves is known to occasionally drop pieces of information that he's not supposed to on his company's earnings calls, and this quarter was no exception.  When asked about CBS's appetite for striking deals with new streaming providers …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Washington Post Co. posts $6.2M loss in third quarter  —  The Washington Post Co. lost $6.2 million, or 82 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2011 as a result of a series of one-time charges, a sharp contraction in its education business and continued deterioration in its newspaper and online publishing division.
The Huffington Post:
Ben Smith, Dylan Byers Launch New Media Blog For Politico … Ben Smith Media Blog , Ben Smith Politico , Dylan Byers Politico , Politico , Politico Media Blog , Media News  —  Politico announced Friday that it is shaking up its media coverage in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Discussion: @benpolitico and @dylanbyers
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
HLN Finally Launches a Website To Call Its Own  —  HLN's web presence has long been relegated to a subsection of CNN.com.  That in and of itself is not a bad thing, as CNN has one of the strongest digital presences of any news organization.  But as the focus of coverage by CNN and HLN have diverged …
Discussion: HLNtv.com
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Layoffs hit ‘Daily News’  —  Layoffs have come to the Daily News.  —  An insider confirmed to Capital that a handful of staffers have already been given the ax this afternoon and that pink slips are still being handed out.  The cuts seem to be affecting reporters and photographers.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @huffpostmedia
 
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Magazine Awards Revamped, Again
Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
DirecTV Rises Most in Two Years After Adding Record Customers
Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:
Main Street Connect Announces New CEO, $7 Million in Funding
C. Custer / Penn-Olson:
Chinese Government on TV Content: No Net Video Allowed!
Discussion: paidContent
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: The Texas Tribune's Two-Year Stats
Discussion: Poynter
David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ pcE11: Dawn Ostroff: Streaming Is Better Than DVRs For Advertising
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
U.S. Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets
Discussion: paidContent
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Future Of Music Coalition Says It Cannot Support E-PARASITE/SOPA In Good Conscience
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Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Magazine publishers divided over giving digital issues for free
Discussion: MediaPost
Paul Thomasch / Reuters:
CBS quarterly profit rises, buying back stock
Discussion: Associated Press
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Welcome TechCrunch's Newest Writers, Josh Constine And Eric Eldon
Discussion: Slate
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand
Gabe Rivera / Mediagazer News:
Meet Mediagazer's New (Human) Editors
Discussion: Beet.TV
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
“The Internet Community is Always in a Complete Lather”
Discussion: Multichannel