Mediagazer: Murdoch Sells $62 Million in News Corp. Shares (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

2:55 AM ET, November 19, 2011

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

What happens when journalism is everywhere? — When the Arab Spring demonstrations were under way in Egypt's Tahrir Square and reports were streaming out through Twitter and Facebook and text messages and cellphone videos, it was easy to feel superior to the Egyptian government.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The New Yorker Blog, Business Week and Editors Weblog, Thanks:mathewi

Elizabeth Spiers / The New York Observer:

Notes on the NYPD Press Credentialing Process, from the (Ineligible) Editor-in-Chief of the New York Observer — In a note responding to an earlier post from TheAwl detailing the various media organization associations of 26 reporters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests …

Discussion: Mediaite, Boing Boing, Betabeat, Forbes, City Room, Gawker, CJR, The Awl, @jcstearns, Threat Level, GalleyCat, Mediaite, Poynter, ANIMAL, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, The Lede, Pixiq and Hit & Run

John Koblin / WWD:

Tough Times at Newsweek — Photo By Jonathon Ziegler/Patrickmcmullan.Com … On Nov. 7, a memo was handed out to Newsweek reporters and editors. The note detailed a new process in how to pitch stories. — “Stories are generated in a variety of ways, from chance conversations with Tina or other senior editors...” the memo began.

Discussion: The Awl, Poynter, The Wrap, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Boing Boing and Future of Journalism

Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:

Ed Rollins To Join Fox News — Veteran GOP political consultant Ed Rollins is joining Fox News as a political contributor, the Daily News has learned. — Fox confirmed the hire to our Alison Gendar, but declined to release the dollar amount or terms of the contract.

Discussion: Mediaite, TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News

Dan Hirschhorn / AdAge:
Fox News Eyes Bigger Ad Haul in This Election Season

Discussion: Inside Cable News, Pew Research Center, Mediaite and TVNewser

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Iger Says No Hurry to Replace Regis Philbin — Now that Regis Philbin has completed his long run on his ABC morning show, attention will naturally focus on who might replace him alongside Kelly Ripa. But Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC …

Discussion: TVNewser and TVWeek.com

NY Daily News:
Regis Philbin says goodbye to ‘Live!’ in front of star-studded audience after 28 years on morning show

Discussion: ArtsBeat, The Huffington Post, @jimmykimmel, EW.com, Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, Mediaite, @brianstelter, Media Decoder and Speakeasy

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Murdoch Sells $62 Million in News Corp. Shares — News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch sold nonvoting shares in News Corp worth $61.7 million this week, according to a securities filing late Friday. — The sale, of about 3.6 million shares, represents about 1.1% …

Discussion: Financial Times and Bloomberg

Steve Smith / MediaPost:

“FT” Web App Delivers 1 Million Users — ‘FT’ Web App Delivers 1 Million Users 2 hours ago — The Financial Times' big bet against Apple's in-app subscription model has paid off, to the tune of 1 million users served since its June launch. FT pulled its native iOS app from the Apple App Store shortly …

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Erik Wemple:

AP gets steamed at Huffington Post, sources say — How irked was the Associated Press over the following tweet from Huffington Post social media guru Mandy Jenkins? … Well, irked enough that the AP's social media leader, Lou Ferrara, said this to the Erik Wemple Blog earlier this week:

Discussion: Mediaite

Rob Davis / Voice of San Diego:

New U-T Boss: ‘You Change Now or You Die’

Discussion: Erik Wemple, New York Times and Media Decoder

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

The Rumors Are True. I Am Leaving TechCrunch. — This won't come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I am leaving TechCrunch. — My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington's ouster two months ago, but it wasn't an easy decision for me.

Discussion: Mixed Media, more at Techmeme »

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Jon Stewart: Media can't pick a GOP frontrunner — On Thursday night's show, Jon Stewart relived the coverage cycle of the GOP presidential race, pointing out that Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain received the same surge-slump story treatment that Newt Gingrich — now surging again — received.

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, The Politico and unionleader.com

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

Dennis' The Week Launches iPad App, New Web Site — Dennis has relaunched the website for its weekly printed news digest The Week after buying The First Post website to power its rolling daily news ambitions. But, for its new iPad app, The Week is preferring weekly content.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs — Publisher of the Guardian and Observer says review of printing operations is likely to lead to jobs cuts — Guardian Media Group chief executive Andrew Miller told staff today that the company needed to ‘become more efficient and make savings wherever we can’

Discussion: Guardian and TBIJ