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6:05 PM ET, October 20, 2012

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
News Corp says reports it is in talks with Tribune Co are inaccurate  —  (Reuters) - News Corp said on Saturday reports that it is in discussions with Tribune Co or the Los Angeles Times are “wholly inaccurate.”  —  Reuters and the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Rupert Murdoch, other potential buyers eye L.A. Times  —  News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch is said to be in early talks to buy the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune from Tribune Co.  —  News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch intends to stay in the business that forms the bedrock of his empire …
Amita Sharma / KPBS San Diego:
U-T Owner Manchester Shows Interest In Tribune Company
Hazel Sheffield / CJR:
Santa Barbara is getting a nonprofit investigative newsroom  —  A Knight grant is funding the launch of a new journalism initiative  —  A few years ago, a small team of journalists based in Santa Barbara, CA, starting sharing ideas on how address a gap in investigative coverage in their hometown.
Sheera Frenkel / NPR:
Sheldon Adelson Shakes Up Israeli Newspaper Market … Former staff of Israel's daily Maariv newspaper protest their dismissals on Sept. 20, in Tel Aviv.  The newspaper, one of the country's oldest, is on the verge of closure.  —  Israel's newsstands are looking noticeably less crowded these days …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of The New York Times' expanding global strategy  —  SAO PAULO — Arthur Sulzberger, the Times publisher, made his first trip to Brazil this week.  It was a three-day visit to Sao Paulo, and it had a single big purpose: announcing that, in the second half of 2013 …
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Polar Mobile arms publishers with MediaEverywhere HTML5 tool  —  Polar Mobile helped publishers jump on the mobile app wave by making apps for companies like Conde Nast, Time, The Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated.  But now, it's ready to help media brands shift to an HTML5 world …
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Violentacrez, Reddit Troll Behind Creepshots, Tells CNN He Did It For ‘Those Meaningless Internet Points’  —  Last week, Gawker earned Internet raves for outing “the biggest troll on the Internet.”  Adrian Chen identified Reddit user Violentacrez — who has created and moderated controversial forums …
Discussion: TVNewser
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Major Cable News Networks Won't Carry Third-Party Debate  —  NEW YORK — When Larry King moderates Tuesday's third-party debate in Chicago, his former network, CNN, will not be carrying it live.  And neither will Fox News or MSNBC.  But Al Jazeera English plans to broadcast the debate live …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Trends show online ad revenue will overtake print this year  —  Technology Review research editor Mike Orcutt combines data from four sources, including a report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, that suggests online advertising revenue will cross print advertising revenue in 2012, if it hasn't already.
Discussion: Capital New York
Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:
Copyright Alert System Coming Within Weeks  —  American Internet users can expect to start seeing notifications from their Internet service providers if they trade files on peer-to-peer networks.  —  A blog post by Jill Lesser, executive director of the Center for Copyright Information …
Discussion: CNN, WebProNews and Media Decoder
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Turning the page on Tina Brown  —  When Newsweek relaunched in 2011, editor Tina Brown promised frugality and humility.  —  “I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype,” Brown, the ex-Vanity Fair, ex-New Yorker, ex-Talk editor whose name …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Newsweek's Web-Only Future: Inevitable, and a Whole Lot Smaller
Discussion: TechCrunch and Talking Biz News
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
After Newsweek, Is Writing on Wall for Newsweeklies?
Jim Romenesko:
Publisher at Advance's Express-Times suddenly resigns  —  Martin Till, who has been with the Express-Times in Easton, Pa., for 14 years, said in a prepared statement that he's decided to explore new opportunities.  The departing publisher could not be reached by his newspaper's reporter for comment.
Discussion: lehighvalleylive.com
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Telegraph's much-delayed digital paywall appears to have taken another step back …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
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