Mediagazer: MGM On-Board With UK Netflix Early 2012 Launch (Sam Gibbs/Gizmodo UK)

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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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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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 …

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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.

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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John Koblin / WWD:

Condé Nast Entertainment Division Expands to Hollywood — WWD.com is the authority for news and trends in the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail. Featuring daily headlines and breaking news from all Women's Wear Daily publications, WWD.com provides the most comprehensive coverage anywhere …