Mediagazer: Welcome to the post-blog blog (Ben Smith/The Politico)

9:50 AM ET, November 7, 2011

Top News:

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.

Discussion: PC Magazine, Gizmodo UK, Techland, AllThingsD, Fast Company, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, CNET News and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Chickaboomer

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 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

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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 …

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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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 …

Discussion: Guardian

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

Discussion: Media Decoder and The New York Observer

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’.

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch, Netflix and @ingridlunden, more at Techmeme »

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.

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

Introducing the Mashable Publisher Platform — At today's Mashable Media Summit, we announced the Mashable Publisher Platform, a new editorially curated syndication experience that brings content from select publishers to our site. — Starting next week, you'll begin seeing articles from AppAdvice …

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Welcome to the post-blog blog — When POLITICO launched on January 22 of 2007, I opened my new blog — my first foray, after a few years blogging in New York, on the national political scene — with what I thought would be an attention-getting scoop: Kathryn Murdoch, wife of James and daughter …