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11:10 PM ET, October 16, 2012

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Australian Associated Press:
News Corp has market's thumbs up: Murdoch  —  Having survived shareholder challenge to his family's influence at the helm of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch says the company is well-positioned for strong performance and the market likes what it is doing.  Murdoch told News Corp's annual general meeting …
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The Independent:
Cameron, Brooks and the emails kept from Leveson  —  Private emails between David Cameron and the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have been withheld from the Leveson Inquiry after the Prime Minister sought personal legal advice, The Independent can reveal.
Robert Steiner / Nieman Journalism Lab:
In Toronto, we're dumping the j-school model to produce a new kind of reporter  —  In its series of pieces on journalism education, the Nieman Journalism Lab raised two of three ideas that could really change the field.  The first, from Len Downie: Journalism schools should work more like teaching hospitals.
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
One month in, Margaret Sullivan talks about the changing role of New York Times Public Editor  —  A little over a month into her job, Margaret Sullivan has been transforming the traditional role of The New York Times public editor — by blogging almost every weekday and using social media …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post Close To Replacing Marcus Brauchli As Executive Editor: Sources  —  Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli has been a marked man at least since March, when his boss, publisher Katharine Weymouth, tried and failed to hire someone from The New York Times to succeed him.
Discussion: Media Nation
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: magazine.org, FishbowlLA and MinOnline
Jim Romenesko:
Union: New York Times newsroom managers got raises while our wages were frozen  —  “The Mobilization Committee” at the New York Times tells guild members this afternoon that newsroom managers have been nicely rewarded. … Read the memo after the jump.  —  From:
Discussion: @penenberg
Amanda Hirsch / MediaShift:
St. Louis Non-Profit News Orgs Partner on Beyond November and More  —  Correction: The Twitter hashtag for Beyond November is #beyondnov, not #beyondnovember as a previous version of this post stated.  —  In St. Louis, three non-profit news organizations — St. Louis Public Radio (SLPR) …
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
News Corp Partners with Bank to Sell Videogame/Entertainment Sites  —  As News Corp prepares to split its entertainment and publishing companies into their own entities, it's looking to trim some fat.  IGN Entertainment, which is a videogame/entertainment website, is part of that process.
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
New York Times chief Mark Thompson leaves Jimmy Savile scandal at BBC  —  Mark Thompson isn't the luckiest of media CEOs.  The incoming boss of the New York Times Company must not only deal with a financial squeeze and an escalating staff dispute; he has also been forced to watch out for an extraordinary storm in his rear-view mirror.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
With Six Million Uniques, Upworthy Gets $4M From NEA to Find More Virals That Aren't Cat Videos  —  In March, a new start-up called Upworthy launched a site that promised to find viral content on important topics.  It seemed an earnest aspiration — it's like cat videos, but serious! — that was unlikely to work.
Discussion: Betabeat
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.
 
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