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3:35 AM ET, October 24, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Says Amazon Is Gaining and HBO Is Coming  —  Another earnings report, another wild swing in share price for Netflix: The stock is down double digits this afternoon, even though the company's earnings of 11 cents a share handily beat the Street's 4 cents consensus.
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Subscriber Additions Disappoint, Reports Q3 Revenue Of $905M And Earnings Of $0.13  —  Netflix's third-quarter 2012 earnings report just came out, with revenue reaching $905 million for the quarter, up from $822 million last year.  It's also in line with Wall Street's consensus forecast of $904 million.
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Times Must Aggressively Cover Mark Thompson's Role in BBC's Troubles  —  One of the most difficult challenges for news organizations is reporting on what goes on inside their own corporate walls.  Two global media companies, the BBC and The New York Times, are dealing with that challenge right now …
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John Plunkett / Guardian:   Mark Thompson offers to appear before MPs
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Journalism and the truth: More complicated than it has ever been  —  When former New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane asked earlier this year whether reporters for the paper should be “truth vigilantes,” the response was immediate and decisive: of course they should, readers said …
Discussion: Poynter, craigconnects and The FJP
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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 …
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
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Jon Henley / Guardian:   Jimmy Savile row: is it really the BBC's biggest crisis ever?
Press Gazette:
‘Five to 10’ staff in BBC sex probe during ‘Savile period’, says DG George Entwistle
Discussion: Guardian and Channel 4
Telegraph:
Jimmy Savile: BBC's lawyers blocked emails on decision to drop Newsnight expose
Discussion: BBC
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Mel Karmazin Stepping Down As Sirius XM CEO  —  No one can say they didn't see this coming: Mel Karmazin is out as CEO of Sirius XM Radio.  Karmazin will step down on Feb. 1, 2013, after the expiration of his current contract, the company has announced.  —  This concludes a months-long …
Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing  —  One way to measure how well a website is doing is by the number of pageviews it's gotten.  Another still — and the au courant metric of a website's success — is unique visitors, because it reveals how many people are actually going there.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and Poynter
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Paid Blogger  —  Hey.  —  My name is Michael Arrington.  For newer readers who don't know, I founded TechCrunch back in 2005.  —  Last year I was fired and began writing on Uncrunched.  —  Today AOL unfired me.  —  I am a venture capitalist and have all sorts of conflicts of interest.
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Sexed-up StumbleUpon.com goes live for all  —  As of today, users of content-discovery site StumbleUpon have no choice but to take its radical new web experience for a spin.  —  The company announced Tuesday that it was ready to shake off the beta label and introduce all 25 million …
Discussion: WebProNews and AllThingsD
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Yahoo teams up with CBS, renames news magazine “The Insider” to “omg!  Insider”  —  Yahoo has announced a new partnership with CBS Television Distribution that will extend the reach of its syndicated news magazine The Insider.  As a result, starting in January 2013, the newsmagazine will be renamed omg!
Discussion: TechCrunch and @jaredbkeller
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Pew surveys young Americans on e-reading, but the data is old  —  A new report (PDF) from the Pew Internet and American Life Project surveyed 16- to 29-year-olds on their reading habits and library usage.  —  That's obviously a broad group, including both high schoolers and twenty-somethings …
Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago:
Editor Elder quits DNAInfo Chicago on eve of launch  —  With the launch of DNAInfo.com Chicago just around the corner, Robert K. Elder suddenly resigned this week as managing editor of the hyperlocal digital news service.  Elder, who recruited most of the 20 or so reporters and editors …
Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
New UK phone-hacking claims target Mirror newspapers, lawyer says  —  London (CNN) — The ripples of the UK phone hacking scandal have spread further afield, with ex-England soccer manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and others filing claims against the Mirror newspaper group, their lawyer said.
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Reuters:
Trinity Mirror says has not received phone hacking legal claims
Discussion: The Independent and Sky News
 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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