Mediagazer: Census: Journalism majors make about $50,000 (Julie Moos/Poynter)

2:30 PM ET, November 7, 2011

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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 …

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Dave Winer / Scripting News:

Martin leaves the Times — A quick note of appreciation for Martin Nisenholtz, who is leaving the NY Times. — The Times will of course tell the story of what he did for the Times. But he also made a very large contribution to the web, through RSS 2.0.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won't Be Replaced

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Nick Davies / Guardian:

News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers — Exclusive: Investigators followed and filmed lawyers of hacking victims in apparent attempt to gather material on private lives — The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance …

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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Dirty Business (As Usual) at News Corporation

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

NY Times sues Huffington Post over parenting blog — The New York Times Co has sued AOL Inc to force its Huffington Post online news website to rename a parenting blog with a similar name to its own. — In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan ...

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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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Gayle Feldman / The Bookseller:
Barnes & Noble plans international Nook launch

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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 …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Free Press

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame — In a New York Times piece on the weekend, media writer David Carr argues that WikiLeaks is dying — or at least on life support — for a number of reasons, including founder Julian Assange's court case and a funding crisis that has caused …

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

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Census: Journalism majors make about $50,000 — Journalism majors do slightly better than English majors in the job market, according to 2010 U.S. Census data. The median annual salary for both is $50,000, the same as it is for advertising and PR majors, history majors and communications majors.

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 …

Discussion: CNET News and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »

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 for the quarter bottomed out in mid-October, in the $5-a-share range.

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 …

Discussion: Business Insider, TVWeek.com and Company Town

Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York:

Amazon Publishing nabs Deepak Chopra book — 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