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11:30 AM ET, November 9, 2011

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Andrew Crook / Crikey:
Farewell Big Harto: News Ltd CEO John Hartigan resigns  —  Rupert Murdoch has delivered a savage verdict on the health of his Australian operation, with veteran News Ltd CEO John Hartigan stepping aside and Rupert taking the company's chairmanship for himself.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Murdoch's Aussie boss steps down  —  Rupert Murdoch has lost one of his most loyal and effective newspaper executives.  John Hartigan, chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Australian division, News Limited, is stepping down.  —  In making the announcement today …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cain aide wrongly insists they've ‘confirmed’ accuser's son works for POLITICO  —  Herman Cain campaign manager Mark Block, in an appearance with Sean Hannity on Fox News just now, insisted that a relative of the second woman to publicly accuse the candidate of sexual harassment in the 1990s works at POLITICO.
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
The Daily names original Herman Cain accuser, other news orgs follow
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Fox News to use Google+ Hangouts for GOP candidate interviews  —  Fox News anchor Bret Baier will use Google+ Hangouts (group video chats) to moderate live discussions with each of the Republican presidential candidates and members of the public.  First up is Mitt Romney on Nov. 15, to be followed by others later.
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Hacks will be Hacks  —  JOURNALISTS will ask you questions.  We will take your picture, ring your office and your home, we will double-check what you say.  —  We will knock on your door, keep tabs on you, and stick our noses where they're not wanted.  —  Sometimes people take money …
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R. Thomas Umstead / Multichannel News:
CNN's Gupta To Host New Series  —  Sunday Afternoon Show to Profile World Innovators  —  CNN will continue to build new programming around its on-air talent with the Nov. 13 launch of a new weekly series featuring Dr. Sanjay Gupta.  —  The 30-minute series, The Next List …
Tim Adler / Deadline.com:
Time Warner's $1.3B Bid For Endemol Shows How Much Rupe Overpaid For Shine  —  Time Warner Makes $1.4B Offer For Endemol  —  One insider familiar with the negotiations describes Time Warner's bid for the debt-laden Dutch TV company as “rock bottom.”  I'm told Endemol's owners consider the Time Warner bid “ridiculously low.”
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Stephen Mangan / Reuters:   Endemol set to reject prospective bidders: report
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
RTL eyes up possible Endemol bid
Discussion: @edmundlee
Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December  —  Back in April of this year, the Russian government put out a tender: … The stated purpose of the monitoring system was quite specific: … Here's what it would be searching for:
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
The problem with retweets & how journalists can solve it  —  Every so often a journalist draws criticism for something he retweeted.  And whether that criticism is justified or not, it discourages some journalists from using Twitter effectively.  —  News organizations respond with policies urging staff to be careful.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gone in a Flash: How Adobe's abandonment of Flash for mobile devices impacts news orgs  —  Jason Perlow at ZDNet broke a pretty big story overnight: Adobe is abandoning development of the mobile version of Flash Player.  As the text of the announcement Perlow obtained has it:
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Discovery Executive to Leave  —  After two years as the chief operating officer of Discovery Communications, Peter Liguori will leave at the end of the year, the company said Wednesday.  —  His departure had been rumored for weeks.  Discover said It does not plan to name a replacement.
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Barnes & Noble Urges U.S. Regulators to Probe Microsoft on Mobile Patents  —  Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) asked U.S. regulators to investigate whether Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) seeks to monopolize the mobile-device market by demanding patent royalties on electronics running on Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Saul Hansell Departs AOL to Be EIR at Betaworks  —  Saul Hansell, the prominent former New York Times tech reporter who went to AOL several years ago to head one of its content efforts called Seed, will leave the company to become an entrepreneur in residence at Betaworks.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
BBC Forced To Syndicate Some VOD; Opportunity For Aggregators  —  Catch-up TV platforms like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) have won a significant concession from the BBC that may allow them to offer the corporation's TV and radio shows within their own services.
Discussion: Guardian and bbc.co.uk
Craig Silverman / Regret the Error:
HuffPost removes, apologizes for 'Who's Got The Tranny Look?' poll  —  After receiving complaints from members of the gay and transgendered community, The Huffington Post removed a poll from its website that asked readers to vote on who has more of a “Tranny Look” between Sofia Vergara and Blake Liveley.
Discussion: Equality Matters and GLAAD
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
EdgeCast Network Goes Down, Takes The Best Of The Internet With It  —  Another glitch in the system — this time, content delivery network EdgeCast ran into problems this morning, bringing down several popular websites.  —  Content delivery sites host static content on a site like images and formatting files.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Who's behind Newark Politico?  ‘A group of Newark professionals,’ as yet unidentified, gets a ‘cease-and-desist’ from Politico  —  Josh Benson.  —  The vestigial website Newark Politico will be a news- and commentary-based venture with content produced by full-time journalists …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
David Kidwell / Chicago Tribune:
Emanuel denies public records requests  —  Emanuel calls for transparency in government — but the operations of his own office remain murky  —  Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made it easier for the public to see who pays City Hall lobbyists, how much every city worker earns and where crime waves have rippled through Chicago neighborhoods.
Discussion: Poynter and Change of Subject
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
AOL Doubles Down On Its Editions iPad Magazine With UK And Canada Versions  —  AOL's push into iPad news aggregation—to compete with the likes of Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, Yahoo's Livestand and others—is being taken up a notch today, with the launch of the AOL Editions magazine app in the UK and Canada.
Devin Harner / MediaShift:
Do the Math!  How Reporters Squandered the School Loans Story  —  When President Obama announced his school loan relief plan at the University of Colorado, Denver, a few weeks ago, the mainstream media's coverage followed three predictable trajectories that, for the most part …
 
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Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
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