Mediagazer: Former BBC Boss Expresses ‘Shock and Sadness’ About Abuse Scandal (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

8:00 AM ET, November 6, 2012

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Dueling Bitterness On Cable News — As the cable news channels count down the hours before the first polls close on Tuesday, an entire election cycle will have passed since President Obama last sat down with Fox News. The network's standing request to interview the president is now almost two years old.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Facing an Election Night Clamor — This has been the year of the big media gaffe. — NBC News edited a 911 tape of George Zimmerman in a way that implied race as a factor in the Trayvon Martin shooting. CNN and Fox News falsely reported that the Supreme Court had struck down the individual mandate …

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
WSJ and New York Times Drop Paywalls for Election Day

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: Murdoch's Anti-Obama Twitter Drive: Christie, Petraeus and More

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
How Election Day Will Break Twitter

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Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo:

Samsung Teams Up With Yahoo For Interactive TV Service — Samsung has just teamed up with Yahoo, creating a multi-year partnership that will bring the search company's interactive Connected TV platform to Sammy's 2012 lineup of smart TVs — Connected TV—software that brings interactive content …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Marissa Mayer Will “Talk About Where She Is Taking Yahoo” in First Media Interview Since Becoming CEO — Marissa Mayer — the typically press-loving Silicon Valley exec who has avoided much media interaction since she took over as CEO of Yahoo — will be doing her first sit-down interview …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

As Instagram Debuts Web Profiles, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Facebook — Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook. — Instagram launched Web profiles on Monday morning, the first true attempt from the photo-sharing service to provide users with a more complete version …

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Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Instagram CEO: Sandy was probably Instagram's biggest moment — When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast last week, everyone from people trapped in the storm's direct path to New Yorkers observing their dark city pulled out their smartphones (assuming they had power to charge them), and uploaded their photos of Sandy to Instagram.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Former BBC Boss Expresses ‘Shock and Sadness’ About Abuse Scandal — LONDON - Former BBC director general Mark Thompson late Monday reiterated that during his tenure he was not aware of any wrongdoing by former Top of the Pops host Jimmy Savile at the U.K. public broadcaster.

Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
NYT leads coverage on incoming CEO

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL Beats the Street, But Domestic Ads Droop Again — If you bet on AOL at the beginning of the year, you ended up picking one of the hottest stocks in tech. Shares are up 135 percent this year. — Now we'll see if Tim Armstrong can keep it going with his third quarter results.

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Variety:

Amazon eyes original comedy series ‘Browsers’ — Netco close to greenlight for project originally developed at CBS — In a sign that Amazon is getting serious about fielding original programming, the Internet giant is said to be close to greenlighting a musical comedy series dubbed “Browsers.”

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Cablevision and NBCUniversal sign distribution deal — Cablevision signed a new distribution deal with NBC, home of “The Voice.” (NBC) — Cablevision Systems Corp. has signed a long-term distribution deal to carry broadcast and cable networks owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal unit.

Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:

Pandora Media Sues Ascap Seeking Lower Songwriter Fees — Pandora Media Inc. (P), the biggest Internet radio service, sued the organization representing songwriters and composers to seek lower license fees for playing their songs. — Pandora, which is also lobbying the U.S. Congress …

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

CBS Finally Does A Deal With Hulu, But Only For Older Shows That Are Off The Air — After years of speculation, Hulu has finally done a deal with CBS, bringing shows from the one broadcast holdout into its content library. Beginning in January, CBS content will become available through Hulu Plus.

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Michael Wolff / Guardian:

The New York Times adrift hands Margaret Sullivan the tiller — The New York Times' new public editor has made a splash. But her impact is largely a sign of the Old Gray Lady's frailty — The job of public editor at the New York Times - a position instituted at the paper to fortify …

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