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4:50 AM ET, October 31, 2012

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Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:
With Lucasfilm Deal, Disney Spends Big to Land a Lucrative Franchise  —  With its $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm, the Walt Disney Company is proving yet again that it is willing to pay up to land a big franchise.  —  Disney's takeover of Lucasfilm, keeper of the the Star Wars franchise …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4.05B including ILM, LucasArts and other tech, Star Wars VII coming in 2015  —  Media giant Disney has purchased movie and TV production house Lucasfilm for $4.05B in cash and stock.  Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga.
StreetInsider.com:
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.  —  Global leader in high-quality family entertainment agrees to acquire world-renowned Lucasfilm Ltd, including legendary STAR WARS franchise.  —  Acquisition continues Disney's strategic focus on creating and monetizing the world's best branded content …
David Holmes / PandoDaily:
Meet the man behind “Is Twitter Wrong?” who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurricane Sandy  —  Yesterday was a big day for citizen journalism.  At one point during the storm users were posting 10 pictures to Instagram every second, and check out this dizzying website that displays in real …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Councilman Pushes For Charges Against Twitter User Who Spread Falsehoods  —  “I hope the fact that I'm asking for criminal charges to be seriously considered will make him much less comfortable and much less smug,” says Vallone  —  New York City Councilman Peter Vallone told BuzzFeed Tuesday …
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Tweeting fake news in a crisis — illegal or just immoral?  —  When Hurricane Sandy battered their city on Monday night, New Yorkers looked after each with courage and generosity.  Unfortunately, a few people behaved badly and one person was downright despicable.
Jack Stuef / BuzzFeed:
Shashank Tripathi, Last Night's Twitter Villain @ComfortablySmug  —  During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before ConEd, the MTA …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Newspaper Circulation Holds Steady Again  —  Digital Circulation Now 15.3% of the Total  —  Paywalls still seem to be paying off for newspapers.  —  The industry's average weekday circulation over the six months ending in September slipped just 0.2% from the equivalent period a year earlier …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:   Washington Post Sunday circulation drop bad, but not quite as bad as it looks
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Right Man for the Job?  —  The position of chief executive of The New York Times Company is not the easiest to fill.  —  There are, to start with, the obvious business challenges: like all newspaper companies, the Times Company has struggled financially as the Internet has eroded its traditional revenue sources.
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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
The Jimmy Savile scandal, Mark Thompson and the New York Times
Jim Romenesko:   NYT publisher to NYT columnist: No comment on Mark Thompson
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Vimeo launches tips jar for content creators.  More of this, please, media industry  —  Vimeo has just launched a tip jar to help content creators earn money from their videos.  A “pay to view” option is coming soon.  These are the first steps in what could become a widespread micropayments ecosystem on the video-sharing site.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Yelp Launching Visual Menus With User-Contributed Photos  —  Yelp is announcing a new feature today that allows users to browse restaurant menus (with accompanying food porn) directly from the Yelp website and mobile app.  —  Last year, the company added the ability for businesses …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Barnes & Noble inks video deals in time for Nook HD, HD+ release  —  20th Century Fox and NBCUniversal programs will be available as the new tablets launch this week.  —  Barnes & Noble is expanding its Nook video content to include NBCUniversal and 20th Century Fox programs as it also begins shipping its HD and HD+ tablets this week.
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NBC Chicago:   First Lawsuit Filed in Barnes & Noble Hacked PIN Pad Case
Danah Boyd / Wired:
Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story  —  Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San Francisco in 1975 when a woman attempted to shoot him.  A former marine named Oliver Sipple grabbed the gun, preventing the assassination attempt.
Charlie Osborne / CNET:
EFF: TV networks use ‘craven’ tactics against streaming service  —  Startup Aereo's free broadcasting service remains the target of television networks as they try to shutter it based on copyright infringement.  —  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is backing startup Aereo …
 
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Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
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