Mediagazer: The chimes at midnight — Unless we find an angel … (Roger Ebert/Chicago Sun-Times)

10:40 AM ET, November 7, 2011

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Brooks Barnes / 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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Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun-Times:

The chimes at midnight — Unless we find an angel, our television program will go off the air at the end of its current season. There. I've said it. Usually in television, people use evasive language. Not me. We'll be gone. I want to be honest about why this is. We can't afford to finance it any longer.

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Barnes & Noble Officially Unveils The 7-Inch Nook Tablet — In late September, Amazon unveiled a $199 tablet called the Kindle Fire. Obviously this left a massive divide in the market between the much pricier iPad 2 and the new Kindle Fire, which Barnes & Noble has this morning responded to.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Live, from New York, Barnes & Noble Rolls Out the New Nook — Welcome to the Barnes & Noble at New York's Union Square, where the bookseller is scheduled to roll out the new Nook, its answer to Amazon's Kindle Fire (and every other tablet in a market dominated by the iPad).

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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:

At PBS's NewsHour, Departures, Questions and Complaints — It's never good when a news organization loses its political editor just a year before a presidential election. But in the next two weeks, “The PBS NewsHour” will say goodbye not only to its political editor, David Chalian …

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.

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Time Warner Cable experiences huge system-wide outage — Hey you — did your internet just freak out? Is it still freaking out? You're not alone: Time Warner Cable customers across the country are experiencing strange outages and slowdowns, and the company says it's recovering from a …

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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?

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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York:

Amazon Publishing nabs Deepak Chopra book — Matthew Flamm - Amazon Publishing, the Manhattan-based imprint of the Seattle e-tailing giant, has acquired the next book by best-selling author Deepak Chopra, according to two publishing executives. The deal marks the imprint's third foray …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Martin Nisenholtz, Senior VP of Digital, leaving New York Times — Martin Nisenholtz, one of the most respected executives in the online media world, is leaving the New York Times, where he has been senior vice president of digital operations for quite awhile and has helped oversee …

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

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

What Answers Will Investors Be Demand-ing in the Q3 Call Today? — Just last week, it seemed as if the dangerous riptide had finally turned for Demand Media, the social content company whose stock bottomed out this quarter in mid-October in the low $5 a share range.