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6:40 PM ET, October 15, 2012

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Financial Times:
Rebekah Brooks received £7m pay-off  —  Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers business, received a pay-off totalling more than £7m following her resignation from the newspaper publisher last year.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Adam Taylor / Business Insider:
The Payout Given To Rupert Murdoch's Disgraced Right Hand Woman Was Much Bigger Than Originally Thought  —  Rebekah Brooks, who became internationally notorious last year as Rupert Murdoch's right hand woman at the center of the UK's huge phone hacking scandal, was reportedly given a £7 million …
Guardian:
Jimmy Savile scandal: BBC director general to appear in front of MPs  —  George Entwistle is expected to answer questions in front of a House of Commons committee next week  —  The BBC director general is expected to appear to take questions from MPs next week on the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal …
Discussion: Telegraph
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Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Savile questioned by BBC boss 20 years ago
Discussion: Capital New York
Martin Beckford / Telegraph:   Jimmy Savile: Former BBC Trust chairman criticises ‘hysteria’
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Circa wants to rethink the way we consume the news on a sub-atomic level  —  Ben Huh may be the CEO of the humor-oriented Cheezburger Network, a business built on funny cat pictures and other web ephemera, but for more than a year now he has been thinking night and day about the future of the news industry …
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles — what's wrong and right about that
Discussion: TechCrunch and The FJP
Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:
Who Controls the Presidential Debates?  Journalists or the Campaigns?  —  CNN's Candy Crowley, the moderator of the second presidential debate, which is structured like a “town-hall” meeting, has been saying publicly that she is looking forward to asking follow-ups of the candidates …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Moderator Candy Crowley's follow-up questions at Tuesday's debate are already upsetting both campaigns  —  The Obama and Romney campaigns signed an agreement that at Tuesday's debate, “The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience …
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Why The New York Times, the Financial Times and El País are eyeing Latin America  —  The New York Times is planning to launch an online Portuguese-language edition for Brazil in 2013, its parent company announced.  Once it goes live, the site will publish 30 to 40 articles a day …
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Agence France Presse:
NY Times to launch Portuguese news site for Brazil
Discussion: Media Decoder
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gannett announces rise in circulation revenue, driven by paywalls  —  Net operating revenues from print circulation were up 5.6 percent in the third quarter of 2012 over the same period the year before, Gannett announced Monday morning.  Seventy-one of Gannett's newspapers now have a paywall.
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Can a new CEO save CNN?  —  CNN, the news network that nobody likes, or watches or can fix, is looking for a new CEO.  Even if you actually believed you could fix it, it's far from clear that anybody would want you to.  Although the network is an embarrassment to everybody who works there …
Associated Press:
AP names first international social media and UGC editor  —  The Associated Press has expanded its commitment to social media and user-generated content as global newsgathering resources, promoting Fergus Bell to the newly created position of social media and UGC editor — international.
Discussion: The Wrap
Nathan / The eBook Reader Blog:
Amazon Quietly Discontinues the Kindle DX  —  About a week ago I posted about how Amazon had cut the price of the Kindle DX from $379 to $299.  As expected it was indeed a final sale to eliminate stock, because the Kindle DX is no longer available for purchase from Amazon; it's only being sold used through third party merchants.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
What Eight Million Livestreams Really Means  —  That crazy leap that Felix Baumgartner made was astonishing.  —  And if you're interested in the future of Web video, YouTube's ability to serve up eight million livestreams at the same time is a really big deal, too.
Discussion: Poynter, Daily Dot, CNET and Mashable!
 
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