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8:35 AM ET, October 16, 2012

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Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks's News International severance deal worth ‘about £7m’  —  Payoff package for the former News International executive is far in excess of the £1.7m speculated on after her departure  —  Rebekah Brooks received a payoff worth about £7m after resigning …
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Eliza Kern / GigaOM:
Switching consumers to digital books is hard enough — get ready for magazines  —  When it comes to bringing magazines to the Kindle or iPad, some of the trickiest competitors aren't fellow digital platforms — it's the actual print products themselves.  Paper magazines are still pretty good, Amazon told publishers on Monday.
Discussion: MinOnline and magazine.org
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Guardian hires first digital strategy director to grow online business  —  Guardian News & Media has appointed its first ever digital strategy director to knuckle down on finding workable online business models, two years after its nearest equivalent post-holder left the role.
Discussion: Guardian, @sifter and @emilybell
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Jimmy Savile scandal: David Cameron urged to set up independent inquiry  —  David Cameron is under pressure to set up an independent Leveson-style inquiry into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal to investigate what happened not just at the BBC but also at the hospitals and schools …
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Guardian:
Jimmy Savile scandal: BBC director general to appear in front of MPs
Discussion: Telegraph and Guardian
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Reuters' Early Report Of Protesters At Libya Attack Raises Questions  —  NEW YORK — On Sept. 12, Reuters reported that there were protesters present when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked and described the assailants as “part of a mob blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad.”
Discussion: Poynter, FP Passport, CNN and Mother Jones
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 …
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Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:   Who Controls the Presidential Debates? Journalists or the Campaigns?
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Why The Internet Cool Kids Think Gawker Outing Reddit's Violentacrez Is The ‘Best Story About The Web’ This Year  —  On Friday, Gawker published a piece that the Internet Cool Kids had been waiting for.  In it, Adrian Chen unmasked one of the volunteer moderators of Reddit, a site for sharing news …
Discussion: Techdirt, PSFK, Softpedia News and Guardian
AllThingsD:
News Corp. Partners With Bank to Aid in Sale of IGN Entertainment Sites  —  News Corp. is working with investment bank Allen & Co. on an auction to sell its network of videogame and entertainment Web sites, known as IGN Entertainment, after the company's initial sale efforts failed to produce a deal …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
FCC will allow encryption of basic cable, offers measures to protect open access  —  The days of plugging a TV into the wall and getting cable are coming to an end.  After a lengthy review process, the FCC has granted cable operators permission to encrypt their most basic cable programming.
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles — what's wrong and right about that  —  There's a lot to like and a lot to hate about Circa, the new company by Cheezburger Network and reality TV star Ben Huh and SocialThing and SimpleGeo co-founder Matt Galligan.  It launches today and is on “a mission to fix journalism.”
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Circa wants to rethink the way we consume the news on a sub-atomic level
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers  —  The major music labels have a clear stance on online piracy, as the following quote from the RIAA illustrates.  —  “While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally …
Discussion: Pocket-lint, BGR and The Next Web
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
 
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Discussion: The Wrap and PewResearch.org
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