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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Protest Puts Coverage in Spotlight — As police officers cleared protesters last week from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of Occupy Wall Street, they made sure most reporters were kept blocks away, supposedly for their own protection. — But in almost every other respect …

Discussion: Media Decoder and Pressthink

Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:

Bloomberg's Plan for World Domination — With an army of reporters and wonky information services, the media company is expanding from Wall Street to Washington, Where it hopes to control—even more. — Bloomberg was everywhere, like Bloomberg likes to be.

Discussion: Poynter, Future of Journalism and New York Times

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

Mashable Fires Editor At Large And Top Writer Ben Parr — UPDATE: Mashable has confirmed with us that Ben Parr was fired on Friday. — EARLIER: Mashable's editor at large Ben Parr has left the fast-growing news site, Business Insider has learned. — Parr had originally intended …

Discussion: AllThingsD, WebProNews, Adweek and ShortFormBlog, more at Techmeme »

Ben Parr:

2,446 Articles Later, A Goodbye to Mashable — Dear friends, family, colleagues and supporters, — Friday, November 18, was my last day at Mashable. I want to thank the Mashable team for 3+ amazing years. They truly have been the best years of my life. — I also want to thank everybody who has been part of my journey.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

At 154, a Digital Milestone — The Atlantic Media Company owes its name and legacy to the 154-year-old monthly magazine founded by New England literary greats like Ralph Waldo Emerson. But in October, the company marked a very modern milestone: digital advertising revenue exceeded print advertising revenue for the first time.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and The Next Web

Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:

Maharishi Arianna — Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet. — On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, LA Observed, The New York Observer, Mixed Media and Business Insider

Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:

Hugh Grant Accuses ‘The Mail on Sunday’ of Phone Hacking … LONDON - Hugh Grant blew open the phone-hacking investigation Monday, accusing The Mail on Sunday of listening to his mobile phone messages when he was dating Jemima Khan in 2007. — To date the Inquiry has heard allegations …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Daily Mail:

News of the World journalists' computers were destroyed by ‘putting them through a grinder and smashing them up’ — The phone hacking scandal has taken a new twist after it was revealed computers used by News of the World journalists were destroyed by putting them ‘through a grinder’.

Discussion: Independent.ie

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Study iPad Owners Drive 88 Percent Of Worldwide Web Traffic From Tablets — One can argue the semantics over shipped units and sold units when evaluating the state of the tablet market in late 2011, but one thing seems pretty clear: way, way more people are using the iPad than any other tablet device …

Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM, PC Magazine, ZDNet and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please — After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm. But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit. — So says a survey commissioned by a publishers' trade group …

Discussion: Fast Company, Electronista and FT Tech Hub, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB names new independent directors — Le Monde shareholder Matthieu Pigasse and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert appointed ahead of AGM — BSkyB is to appoint Matthieu Pigasse, controlling shareholder of Le Monde and the French edition of Huffington Post …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYT Launches Group Digital Subscriptions For Companies — The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. The introduction of a new structure …

Discussion: New York Times

Wall Street Journal:

Magazine Rebound Falls Flat — What was expected to be a rebound year for many magazine publishers is ending with a whimper. Worried about the economy, marketers have cut their ad spending in the past couple of months, according to new data and interviews with advertising executives.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Gawker