Mediagazer: Study: More women, traditional media are blogging (Michael Martinez/CNN)

9:05 AM ET, November 8, 2011

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Stephen Hull / The Huffington Post - UK:

Phone Hacking: Top 10 Must Read Stories Ahead Of James Murdoch's Committee Meeting — Phone hacking at News of the World has started to make its way back up the news agenda after a series of new revelations about the activities of journalists at the now defunct newspaper.

Nick Davies / Guardian:
News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers

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

Amir Efrati / Digits:

Twitter Looks to TV, Media Partnerships for Growth — Twitter is becoming a big star on TV-and now the online-messaging service wants to shine even brighter. — A growing number of TV shows such as Fox's “Glee” and PBS's “Nova” regularly direct their viewers to Twitter in order to view …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

News organizations can finally create Google+ pages — Google+ has launched brand pages for businesses, finally enabling news organizations and other businesses, institutions or products to engage with people on the social network. NBC News, Good Morning America, Fox News and The New York Times …

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Dylan Byers / Adweek:

Josh Tyrangiel Means Business — Josh Tyrangiel has a preposterous mission: to convince readers that a weekly business magazine left for dead two years ago is now a must-read. — That would be challenging enough in a good market. But in 2011, with print advertising still in crisis …

Michael Martinez / CNN:

Study: More women, traditional media are blogging — Los Angeles (CNN) — The blogosphere — arguably the first engine of the new-media age — is becoming more female, while traditional media is horning in on the blogging action, a new study said Friday. — “It's healthy and it's mature …

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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.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Martin Nisenholtz, Senior VP of Digital, leaving New York Times

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

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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

Dianne Festa Expands NBC News Duties — Dianne Festa's role as director of NBC News has been expanded, NBC News President Steve Capus announced in a memo to staffers Monday. — Festa is currently the editorial liaison to NBC's affiliates. In her new role, she will take on the task …

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Now, Breathe: Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectation in Q3 — Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations in the third quarter, posting a loss of five cents a share. Investors had expected it to lose from four to six cents. — Revenue was up 25 percent to $85.1 million, compared to $65.4 million in the same period a year ago.

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Evan Hansen / Wired.com:

Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours — From NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens — Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we're giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free.

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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:

Slim's Move Into Web TV Draws Protests of Piracy From Rival Billionaires — Carlos Slim, the billionaire banned from providing television service in his native Mexico, is offering shows for free on the Web, drawing protests from rivals wary of his influence in the market.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

At Sony Music, a Plan to Dominate the Industry — A huge self-portrait of Bono hangs in the Madison Avenue office of Doug Morris, the new chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, and on a nearby table sit his snapshots, arm-in-arm with Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Kelly Cobiella and Bazi Kanani Join ABC News — ABC News is on a talent hiring spree. In addition to two local news anchors from Chicago set to join the network. ABC News president Ben Sherwood has announced he is beefing up his international reporting staff with the hires of Kelly Cobiella …

Discussion: TVSpy

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Head of Google's Public Policy Operations Resigns — As Google faces stepped-up interrogations from regulators and policy makers, Alan Davidson, who runs its public policy operations for North and South America, announced Monday that he would leave the company this month.

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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

Net Neutrality-Blocking Resolution Senate Vote Expected Thursday — Measure, which was approved in Senate, is almost certain to be voted down in Democrat-controlled House — Look for debate on Wednesday, Nov. 9, and a vote the following day on the primarily Republican-backed resolution …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley

Gayle Feldman / The Bookseller:

Barnes & Noble plans international Nook launch — Barnes & Noble is to expand its e-book service internationally next year, the company's chief executive has revealed. The development was revealed at the company's New York press conference at which it unveiled its $249 Nook Tablet …

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