Mediagazer: Is the WikiLeaks Movement Fading? (David Carr/New York Times)

Disney and YouTube Make a Video Deal — LOS ANGELES — Two powerful media companies, the Walt Disney Company and YouTube, are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles as they each strive for greater Web dominance.

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David Carr / New York Times:

Is the WikiLeaks Movement Fading? — IT appears all the more likely that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be extradited to Sweden to be questioned on allegations of sexual misconduct from two women. A British court's ruling last Wednesday that he could be extradited …

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Dish Networking: Owner explores live cable channels for Web — Charlie Ergen is weighing a move to offer live cable channels via the Web, likely under his Blockbuster brand name, The Post has learned. — Ergen, who runs satellite provider Dish Network Corp., is talking to program providers …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Wait a Minute. Does Google Really Want to Be a Cable Guy?

Discussion: Shelly Palmer Digital Living

Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:

The Rules of Succession — Among the many repercussions of the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, the most mysterious has been its effect on Rupert Murdoch's children. Their 80-year-old father's double-edged dream of dynasty has dominated the lives of three of the six: the Australia-based Lachlan …

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Elisabeth of the Murdochs — With her husband and privy counselor …

Discussion: The New York Observer and Media Decoder

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Knight-Mozilla names news technology fellowship winners — Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership fellows will bridge the gap between technology and news — The Knight-Mozilla fellows were announced at the Mozilla Festival held in London this weekend

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here Comes the New Nook. Cloud Sold Separately. — Barnes & Noble shows off its new Nook in New York today, and unless we've all been victims of an elaborate prank, we know just about everything about the gadget. The big points are that it's a lot like the old Android-based Nook Color …

Tom Fiedler / CommonWealth Magazine:

What happens when a community loses its newspaper? — In Holyoke, residents still mourn the loss of the T-T nearly 20 years later — Holyoke City Hall, looking up Dwight Street — FOR DAYS, HUNDREDS of callers speaking in the hushed tones more commonly reserved for funeral parlors …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

Time Inc.'s Fran Hauser on Accelerating Digital Development — At a FOLIO: Show keynote, the publisher's digital strategy is revealed. — New York - At the 2011 FOLIO: Show, Time Inc. Lifestyle & Style and Entertainment Groups digital president Fran Hauser shared insights into the publisher's digital success.

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Le Monde to Take Full Ownership of Its Web Site — PARIS — Le Monde said Friday that it had reached an agreement to take full ownership of the newspaper's digital affiliate, Le Monde Interactif, by buying a 34 percent stake from another French publisher, Lagardère.

Sam Gibbs / Gizmodo UK:

MGM On-Board With UK Netflix Early 2012 Launch — Netflix is coming to the UK and Ireland early next year and MGM is on-board. The pair announced a multi-year deal to see the studio's biggest films make it onto the streaming roster ‘within the pay TV window’.

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New York Times:

NBC Struggles for Its Footing — Coming into a new television season, about the only solace for the new management regime at NBC was that the network's prime-time fortunes had been so bad for so long, things could not get much worse. — Oh yes they could — and they have.

Discussion: Chickaboomer

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone hacking: former Oasis manager Alan McGee may have been target — Creation Records founder says he has been told by police his mobile may have been hacked by News of the World investigator — The Creation Records founder, Alan McGee, has been told by police investigating phone hacking …

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