Mediagazer: Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series (Jeremy W. Peters/Media Decoder)

10:05 AM ET, November 14, 2011

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‘Nearly 30 NI staff named in Mulcaire notes’ — Leveson inquiry hears details of investigator's work for News of the World, and suggestion he may have worked for Daily Mirror — The names of 28 News International employees appear in notebooks belonging to Glenn Mulcaire …

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James Robinson / @jamesro47:
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Adrian Croft / Reuters:

James Murdoch “kept in dark” on hacking: report — (Reuters) - News Corp's James Murdoch was “kept in the dark” about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World by his subordinates who tried to manage the problem, the newspaper's former chief reporter said on Monday.

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Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC — NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. — The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …

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Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed — As much as we tout Twitter for its conversational abilities — for its revolutionary capacity to create discursive, rather than simply distributive, relationships with news consumers …

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Tom Watson MP:

Society of Editors Conference 2011 #soe11 — I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend the conference today. — Roy Greenslade has just revealed that six months ago, members of the DCMS Select Committee were the targets of covert surveillance by private investigators and journalists working for News International.

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Ellen Elaborates / News Hounds: UK's Guardian: News Corp. Spied On Parliamentary Committee Investigating It

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series — It has been one of Newsweek's signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984. — Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year …

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David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print — Last week, John Paton met with executives of the MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain by circulation in the country, home to papers like The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Salt Lake Tribune …

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Morning TV's Tabloid Turn — As CBS goes serious for sunrise, stars at rival networks grumble about the fluffy fare. — For three frustrating DECADES, CBS has been the biggest loser in the morning. Now, rather than trying to beat Today and Good Morning America at their own game, the network wants to change the rules.

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again? — In recent weeks it seems every time I visit Facebook I'm greeted front and center with a box of stories that my friends have read on The Washington Post. Occasionally they're articles I'm interested in …

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Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media — Disney, which has been busy reorganizing its interactive group, is buying Babble Media, a New York-based parenting platform that features several hundred mom bloggers. — The entertainment giant declined …

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