Mediagazer: Under assault for liberal bias, Politico's traffic dives (Josh Peterson/The Daily Caller)

2:35 PM ET, December 2, 2011

Top News:

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.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Glocer, Chief Executive of Thomson Reuters, Is Being Replaced

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

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

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

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: Mediaite, Fox News, Techland, The FJP and PopWatch

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

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 …

Discussion: rbr.com

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: NetNewsCheck Latest, The Official Google Blog, PC Magazine, MediaFile, Media Money …, Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company, Bits, Deadline.com, GigaOM, The Verge, SocialTimes.com, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:

Under assault for liberal bias, Politico's traffic dives — Internet traffic and Web search measurement tools from several sources indicate that despite massive promotion efforts on MSNBC and in other venues, Politico.com is rapidly losing readers, especially outside of Washington, D.C.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, FishbowlDC and Big Journalism

Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:

Justice Dept. approves Google's AdMeld acquisition — The Justice Department on Friday gave the green light to Google's $400 million acquisition of AdMeld, a major display advertising company. — The agency said the deal can proceed without any conditions, because a detailed analysis …

Discussion: AdAge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Media & Entertainment, Bloomberg, The Official Google Blog and Between the Lines Blog, more at Techmeme »

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

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

With Verizon's $3.6 Billion Spectrum Deal, Cable and Wireless Inch Closer — The relationship between the cable industry and the wireless industry just got a bit cozier. — Verizon Wireless announced on Friday that it had entered into an agreement to acquire spectrum licenses from three cable companies …

Discussion: Comcast Voices, PR Newswire, AllThingsD, Multichannel, Susan Crawford blog and rbr.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.