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5:20 PM ET, November 10, 2011

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Questions over Romenesko's attributions spur changes in writing, editing  —  Poynter.org works hard to meet the highest standards of journalism excellence, and I learned late Wednesday that we have not consistently met those standards.  —  A centerpiece of our editorial work has been the Romenesko blog …
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Choire Sicha / The Awl:
The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter's “Romenesko+”  —  The “Romenesko” blog (launched in 1999!) was a one-man shop, under the corporate parentage of the Poynter Institute, until fairly recently.  It was quite successfully run by its founder, Jim Romenesko, though you could tell every once …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom, Nielsen Investigating ‘Inexplicable’ Nickelodeon Ratings Drop … NEW YORK - Viacom is investigating, together with TV ratings firm Nielsen, a sudden mid-September ratings drop at kids network Nickelodeon, CEO Philippe Dauman told analysts Thursday.  —  On his company's quarterly earnings call …
Discussion: Company Town
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Viacom Reports 33 Percent Gain in Profit  —  A robust television advertising market, climbing cable fees and box office sales from “Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” helped bolster Viacom's profit 33 percent in the quarter that ended in September.  —  The company, which owns MTV Networks …
James Robinson / Guardian:
James Murdoch claims truth about phone-hacking was hidden from him  —  War of words erupts as two ex-News of the World executives, Colin Myler and Tom Crone, refuse to take the blame  —  James Murdoch was embroiled in a rancorous war of words with two of his former senior News of the World executives …
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ESPN stumbles with Penn State coverage  —  ESPN was slow this week to grasp the full implications of the recent criminal indictments at Penn State University.  —  On Saturday, news broke that a grand jury had charged former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky with 40 criminal counts …
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Eduardo J. Morales / Abandoned Couches:   The secretive culture at Penn State is nothing new
Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Sports Taps Ross Greenburg to Produce Docs  —  Former HBO Sports president's first project to debut Jan. 2  —  Former HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg has been hired by NBC Sports Group to produce sports documentaries for the new NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus), Golf Channel and NBC.
Discussion: Multichannel and rbr.com
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Exclusive: NYT expands tech blog  —  The New York Times is expanding its technology blog Bits to include more reporting and analysis about the enterprise portion of the tech sector.  The expanded coverage will encompass a broader range of subjects like “big data,” “cloud computing” and security issues.
Discussion: Betabeat, MediaPost and Bits
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Hal Bruno, Director of Election Coverage at ABC, Dies at 83  —  Hal Bruno, who helped shape political coverage at ABC News for nearly two decades and was a frequent analyst on its radio and television broadcasts, died on Tuesday, Election Day, in Bethesda, Md. He was 83.
Discussion: Deadline.com
Los Angeles Times:
Michael Jackson's estate demands MSNBC ax Conrad Murray documentary  —  Executors for the estate of Michael Jackson demanded Wednesday that MSNBC drop its plan to air a “reprehensible” documentary that promises a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the singer's relationship with Dr. Conrad Murray …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Self-Published British Author Sues For Libel Over Bad Amazon Review  —  In his self-published book The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, British entrepreneur Chris McGrath set out to prove the existence of God and advance creationist theory.
Discussion: The New York Observer
The Independent:
Met offers NOTW journalist a lifeline: turn supergrass against paper and you'll go free  —  The former chief reporter of the News of the World has been approached by Scotland Yard to give potentially vital evidence in the phone hacking scandal against his former employer.
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Robert Beckhusen / Danger Room:
Mexican Man Decapitated in Cartel Warning to Social Media  —  Warning: Graphic image below.  —  A Mexican man has been decapitated, in an apparent warning to social media users to stop tipping off the authorities about the local drug cartel.  —  The man appears to have been handcuffed …
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
Yap Isn't Much Like Siri.  So Why Does Amazon Want It?  —  CLT Blog's Justin Ruckman decoded SEC filings to turn up an intriguing recent Amazon acquisition: Yap, a Charlotte-based speech-recognition startup best known for its recently shuttered voicemail transcription app and backend services …
Vishesh Kumar / Fortune:
What Hollywood found in India  —  The country's IT industry boomed by providing left-brained services like coding and call support.  Now, it's getting ready to cash in on the creative needs of the world's entertainment industries.  —  By Vishesh Kumar, contributor
 
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