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2:00 PM ET, October 23, 2012

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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
BBC Chief Defends Handling of Sex Abuse Scandal  —  LONDON — The director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday defended the institution's handling of a burgeoning sex abuse scandal involving one of its best-known personalities, saying the corporation was not trying to …
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Press Gazette:
‘Five to 10’ staff in BBC sex probe during ‘Savile period’, says DG George Entwistle  —  The BBC is investigating up to 10 “serious allegations” involving past and present employees, director general George Entwistle said today.  —  He gave the figure as he faced a hostile grilling from MPs …
Discussion: Channel 4 and Guardian
Press Association:
Newsnight editor ‘tried to kill’ Savile story  —  A Newsnight reporter has alleged that her editor tried to “kill” the Jimmy Savile story by making “impossible editorial demands” and saying the women who spoke out about the TV star were not too young at the time of the incidents.
Discussion: Guardian
Jon Henley / Guardian:
Jimmy Savile row: is it really the BBC's biggest crisis ever?  —  The broadcaster's history is littered with bust-ups, controversies and embarrassments.  But is the current crisis really worse than its running battles with Margaret Thatcher or the Hutton report?
Telegraph:
Jimmy Savile: BBC's lawyers blocked emails on decision to drop Newsnight expose
Discussion: BBC and Guardian
John Plunkett / Guardian:   Mark Thompson offers to appear before MPs
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Apple Reveals Updated iBooks App, Packs Continuous Scrolling, Improved Social Sharing, And Japanese And Korean Support  —  Well, there you have it.  As more than a few pundits had predicted in the days leading up to the event, Apple has just officially pulled back the curtains on an updated version of its iBooks iOS app.
Discussion: CNET and Pocket-lint
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Journal Newsroom Buzzing Over Editor Succession  —  NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal can be considered an accurate source for information about the top editor of the Wall Street Journal.  So when John Jannarone, citing “people familiar with the matter,” reported last week …
Discussion: @jackshafer and Talking Biz News
Reuters:
Trinity Mirror says has not received phone hacking legal claims  —  Trinity Mirror said it had not yet received any legal claims over allegations of phone hacking.  —  “We note the allegations made against us by Mark Lewis in today's papers,” the owner of the Daily Mirror tabloid said in a statement on Tuesday.
Discussion: Sky News
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Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:   New UK phone-hacking claims target Mirror newspapers, lawyer says
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
U-T San Diego Executive Backtracks on L.A. Times Purchase: 'We're Not Interested' (Exclusive)  —  Last week, U-T San Diego owner Doug Manchester said he would like to buy the Tribune Company's stable of newspapers, with his primary interest being the Los Angeles Times.
Jim Romenesko:
Will Lance Armstrong's downfall hurt Sally Jenkins?  —  Sally Jenkins wrote two books with Lance Armstrong “near the height of his alleged illicit activities,” notes Glenn Nelson.  The Washington Post sports columnist “closely hitched her star to Armstrong's,” he writes, and now …
Discussion: The Daily Weekly
Press Gazette:
Former MoD employee and serving member of armed forces arrested in Elveden probe  —  Officers from Operation Elveden arrested two people in the Rotherham area of South Yorkshire this morning - bringing the total number of arrests in the investigation to 52.  Officers from Elveden …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
A healthy reminder from Amazon: You don't buy ebooks, you rent them  —  Sometimes the language we use fails to capture the essence of what we're doing when we are online, or lulls us into a false sense of security about our behavior and what it means.  For example, we've gotten pretty used …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Craig Newmark Means Well, But Gosh Is He Wrong About How To Fix Press Ethics  —  I never worked at a newspaper*, so I don't bear Craig Newmark the kind of ill will some journalists do.  If Craigslist hadn't come along to undermine classified advertising, and thus the bedrock …
Discussion: GigaOM and Poynter
Craig Mod / CNN:
How magazines will be changed forever  —  (CNN) — Forget everything we know and love about physical magazines.  Forget their length.  Forget their size.  Forget their weekly or monthly publishing schedule.  Forget all these qualities except for one: What it's like to come to an end, and to take a deep breath.
 
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Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY
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