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Charlie Osborne / CNET:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal shed paywalls for Hurricane Sandy — As people go online to get more information on Hurricane Sandy, news outlets are responding by making their content free. — Two major publications have stripped away their paywalls to give consumers unfettered access …
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Shows Go On for Letterman and Fallon, but Kimmel's Brooklyn Broadcast Won't — The arrival of Hurricane Sandy changed plans Monday for several television shows that tape in New York. — ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, who had planned a week of shows from Brooklyn, will not go forward with Monday night's show, he announced about noon.
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TVNewser, Gawker, Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, Speakeasy and Tampa Bay Times
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Hurricane Sandy Media Coverage Competes With Final Week Of 2012 Election — NEW YORK — On Monday, CNN plans to kick off its end-of-the-election series, “The Final Battlegrounds,” with over two-dozen correspondents dispatched across eight pivotal states for the 2012 campaign's eight remaining days.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Capital New York, Mediaite, Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, mediabistro.com, SocialTimes and Mashable!
Dave Larsen / Dayton Daily News:
DirecTV launches Hurricane Sandy info channel
DirecTV launches Hurricane Sandy info channel
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Penguin revenues declined in 2012, says Pearson — Pearson's confirmation that it is offloading Penguin comes as it revealed that the book publisher's revenues declined 2% in the first nine months of 2012, despite healthy growth in its ebook business. The company confirmed on Monday …
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MediaShift, NetNewsCheck Latest, CNET, Forbes, Media & Entertainment and PublishersWeekly.com
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Jessica Hodgson / Wall Street Journal:
Penguin, Random House Ink Deal — LONDON—Pearson PLC and Bertelsmann A.G., two of the world's biggest media groups, agreed Monday on a plan to combine their book-publishing operations, Random House and Penguin. — German media giant Bertelsmann said Monday that it plans to create …
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Anderson Cooper Talk Show Won't Return for a Third Season — The syndication arm of the Warner Brothers studio has decided that there will not be a third season of “Anderson,” the daily talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper. — Citing disappointing ratings, a studio executive …
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mediabistro.com, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Wrap, TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable, Mashable!, The Huffington Post and TVLine
Sky News:
Jimmy Savile: Thompson's Office ‘Was Warned’ — The Jimmy Savile child abuse allegations were flagged up to the office of former BBC boss Mark Thompson at least twice, according to new claims. — The then director-general's office was formally alerted by journalist Miles Goslett …
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Forbes, The Wrap, Poynter and The Huffington Post
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Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Arrest of '70s Rock Star Widens Sexual Abuse Case Tied to BBC
Arrest of '70s Rock Star Widens Sexual Abuse Case Tied to BBC
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BBC, Daily Mail, Telegraph, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal and BBC
Media Decoder:
Times Reaches Tentative Deal With Newspaper Guild — The New York Times said Sunday night that it had reached a tentative agreement with the Newspaper Guild, setting the stage for a new labor contract after more than 18 months of negotiations. — In a message to the staff, the executive editor …
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Jim Romenesko:
New York Times and union reach ‘conceptual agreement’ on 5-year contract — Newspaper Guild of New York president Bill O'Meara sends this email: The Guild and The Times have reached conceptual agreement on a new five-year contract. The tentative compromise reached late today with the aid …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
FT digital subs pass 300,000, growing readership and revenue — Most Financial Times readers are now digital subscribers, after another spurt in online subs pushed the publisher to 313,000 digital subscribers this September. — The 17 percent annual subs jump means FT Group has a combined print …
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Folio, Pearson, NetNewsCheck Latest, Journalism.co.uk and Talking Biz News
Paul Krugman:
The War on Objectivity — Brad DeLong points me to this National Review attack on Nate Silver, which I think of as illustrating an important aspect of what's really happening in America. — For those new to this, Nate is a sports statistician turned political statistician …
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Globe and Mail, Princeton Election Consortium, The Daily Caller, @carr2n and @dangillmor