Mediagazer: Regional Mag Publisher Looks to Resuscitate Local Newspaper Business with Weekly Offering (Stefanie Botelho/Folio)

1:05 PM ET, December 2, 2011

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Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer to step down, will be replaced by COO James Smith on Jan. 1 — NEW YORK — Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer is stepping down at the beginning of the new year. He will be replaced on Jan. 1 by James Smith, the chief operating officer of one of the world's largest news and financial information companies.

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Glocer, Chief Executive of Thomson Reuters, Is Being Replaced — The chief executive at Thomson Reuters, Thomas H. Glocer, is being replaced, according to people familiar with the executive changes. — The company is expected to announce on Thursday evening that Mr. Glocer will be stepping …

Discussion: Reuters, Financial Times, The New York Observer, Poynter, Media News, paidContent, Adweek, Globe and Mail and The Wrap

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Gary Knell defends public funding in first day as NPR CEO — Neal Conan immediately started off an interview on “Talk of the Nation” by asking Gary Knell whether he expects federal funding of public radio to continue. Without public funding, Knell responded, some parts of the country would become …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and NPR

Barbara Cochran / The Huffington Post: Why Federal Support for Public Broadcasting Is the Right Decision

Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Louis Silverstein, Who Gave a Bolder and Airier Look to The Times, Dies at 92 — When The New York Times began publishing on Sept. 18, 1851, it was the New-York Daily Times. — without a “The” but with a period. When the newspaper took its present name six years later, the hyphen stayed …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Gothamist and SND

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Fox News cries foul after being left off Facebook's most-shared articles list — The folks at Fox News are a little miffed about being left off Facebook's list of the 40 “most-shared articles” of 2011. An unbylined story on FoxNews.com accuses “the world's largest social network” of …

Discussion: Fox News, Techland, PopWatch and The FJP

Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:

Speak No Evil — The Bay Area News Group, publisher of the leading daily newspapers in San Francisco's suburbs, had some important news to share with its readers in late August. In a 700-word, unbylined article that appeared on its newspapers' Web sites, it said 11 of its dailies would soon …

Discussion: @mathewi and freefromeditors

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

NBC faces higher fees as it kicks off football talks — The NFL is getting ready to tackle NBC for more cash, The Post has learned. — The two parties are holding early-stage talks about renewing “Sunday Night Football,” a package that has been with NBC since 2006 and is the cornerstone …

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

European E-Book Sales Hampered by Tax Structure — BERLIN — Damien Seaman, whose e-book was published in November in Britain, knows well the ups and downs of the creative process, from the high of landing on a narrative idea to the rigors of editing through to the final, satisfying moment of publication.

Discussion: The New York Observer, eBookNewser and Melville House Books

Peter Pachal / Fast Company:

Amazon's Kindle Fire Blazed Through An Army Of Androids — The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to the iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's operating system. Your move, Sony.

Discussion: MediaFile, Softpedia News and netbooknews.com, more at Techmeme »

Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

Regional Mag Publisher Looks to Resuscitate Local Newspaper Business with Weekly Offering — Chapel Hill Magazine to debut The Weekly in February 2012. — Dan Shannon, publisher of North Carolina city titles Chapel Hill and Durham Magazines, has spotted a hole in the current news publishing model.

Mike Isaac / Epicenter:

YouTube Revamp Foreshadows Google's Vision of Media — SAN BRUNO, California — YouTube is ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille. — Google's streaming-video arm launched a complete site overhaul on Thursday, setting its sights squarely on reshaping the media landscape.

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, PC Magazine, MediaFile, Media Money …, Marketing Pilgrim, Bits, Deadline.com, GigaOM, The Verge, SocialTimes.com, Business Insider and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Michel Martin / NPR:

Journalist On Being Sexual ‘Prey’ In Egypt … While covering protests in Cairo last week, Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was detained by local security forces. She says she was beaten and sexually assaulted. She recalls her experience with host Michel Martin.

Nat Ives / AdAge:

New Newspaper Association CEO Caroline Little on 2012 Priorities, Pay Walls and the British Invasion — Why Business Models Need to Catch Up With Anywhere, Anytime Readers — In many ways this year for newspapers has unfortunately resembled the one that came before, with a sullen economy …