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9:35 AM ET, November 7, 2012

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills The Great White Fail Whale  —  In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly.  —  “RIP Fail Whale.”  —  Indeed, all throughout November 6th, that cutesy …
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Discussion: Quartz
Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Diane Sawyer's Election Night performance left some viewers asking if she had begun celebrating Tuesday's election a bit early.  Co-anchoring ABC News' coverage, the veteran journalist struck a different manner from her practiced, straight-news-delivering style.
Discussion: Gawker and The Atlantic Wire
Julie Moos / Poynter:
25 election front pages let pictures speak louder with words  —  Photography dominated most of today's front pages, with very few words announcing President Obama's re-election.  Several of the papers below illustrate the power of a single word.  A few papers (shown at bottom) …
Bloomberg:
Pearson Said Exploring Financial Times Sale as CEO Leaves  —  Pearson Plc (PSON) is planning to explore a sale of the Financial Times newspaper, as the company focuses on its faster-growing education business, people with knowledge of the situation said.  —  The company has decided …
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
The FT in play  —  This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but the Financial Times is going up for sale, according to Bloomberg, with an asking price of £1 billion.  (Pearson has denied the story, in less than convincing terms.)  —  That's big number.
Michael de la Merced / DealBook:
F.T. Up for Sale, Report Says, but Pearson Says Not So Fast
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Maddow Rips Karl Rove On Fox News  —  Rachel Maddow ripped Karl Rove for disputing President Obama's victory on Fox News on Tuesday night.  Fox News had called the election for Obama when Rove, a Fox News contributor, began to argue with the network about the announcement.
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Amy Willis / Telegraph:
Republican Karl Rove calls Barack Obama Fox News projection ‘premature’  —  Karl Rove, George W Bush's former deputy chief of staff, called a projection that Barack Obama had won the US election “premature” last night and disputed early results in Ohio.  CNN, the Associated Press …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:   Fox News Election Coverage: Questions Turn From President Obama's Victory To 2nd Term Mandate
Samuel Rubenfeld / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp Takes $67 Million Charge on Phone-Hacking Scandal  —  News Corp . said Tuesday that it took a $67 million charge on its quarterly results related to an ongoing investigation into a series of scandals that it initiated when the company closed its weekly tabloid, News of the World.
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists  —  So Nate Silver won in 50 states; big data was the winner; and Nate Silver and data won the election.  And somewhere along the lines some guy called Obama won something, too.  —  Elections set the pace …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If Facebook isn't thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be  —  It might seem a little early to start talking about potential Facebook acquisitions considering the social network just completed its $736-million purchase of Instagram, and its share price is still 40 percent lower than it was when the company went public.
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Bloomberg:
Fewer Cords Cut but Higher Customer Acquisition Costs for Dish  —  Blames Subscriber Losses on Telecom Rivals, Poor Economy  —  Dish Network, the second-largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, reported a surprise third-quarter loss and revenue that trailed analysts' estimates.
Discussion: Cable Television News
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Reuters:
Dish Network reports loss on litigation costs
Wall Street Journal:
Apollo in Talks on McGraw-Hill Unit  —  McGraw-Hill Cos. has entered into exclusive discussions to sell its education unit to Apollo Global Management LLC, and the two sides could reach an agreement within a few weeks, people familiar with the matter said.  —  The final price …
Discussion: DealBook
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Based on network traffic alone, Netflix handily beats Amazon, HBO & Hulu  —  Netflix may have had a tough time with investors, but it's still a big hit with consumers, with none of its competitors even coming close to it in terms of usage: That's one of the key take-aways of Sandvine's …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Betaworks Launches Tapestry, A Way To Author Beautiful Smartphone Essays  —  About half a year ago, futurist, novelist and former Twitter media manager Robin Sloan meditated on what the future of storytelling might look like on smartphones.  —  The product of that was 'Fish …
Discussion: AllThingsD
Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:
AOL: Patch Remains on Path to Profitability, Expenses Cut 30%  —  Patch saw a 19% year-over-year bump in traffic during September, bringing monthly unique visitors across the property to 11.9 million, according to AOLs second quarter earnings report.  During its Q3 earnings call Tuesday …
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
How video will provide a third act for AOL
Discussion: Beet.TV
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times is trying to make its mobile apps more than simple containers for news stories
Discussion: Wired and ReadWrite
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!:
Obama Makes 11th Hour Election Day Plea to Reddit
Discussion: Betabeat, Forbes, MediaPost and AllThingsD
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Click Facebook's “I'm Voting” Button, Research Shows It Boosts Turnout
Discussion: CNET and The Atlantic Online
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Shadow of 2008 looms over CNN
Discussion: CNN
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Roll Call names new editor
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Reuters:
Spain's El Pais journalists strike over job cuts
David Carr / Media Decoder:
A Last Fact-Check: It Didn't Work  —  As so many media outlets promised …
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Amazon Prime tests $7.99/month option to compete with Hulu+, Netflix