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12:20 PM ET, November 8, 2012

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rove's On-Air Rebuttal of Fox's Ohio Vote Call Raises Questions About His Role  —  It was 11:13 p.m. on Tuesday, the moment that Fox News had called Ohio for President Obama.  Karl Rove stood just off camera, his phone glued to his ear.  On the other end was a senior Romney campaign official …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File  —  Nate Silver was right.  His ideological antagonists were wrong.  And that's just the beginning of the right's self-created information disadvantage.  —  Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, “What went wrong?” …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Times Was Slower, but Sure, in Calling the Presidential Election
Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap and paidContent
BBC:
Trinity Mirror demands hacking allegation details  —  Trinity Mirror newspapers has demanded alleged phone-hacking victims reveal their case, saying it has received no formal claim from their lawyers.  —  Last month former England football boss Sven-Goran Eriksson and three others were said to be taking legal action.
Discussion: Guardian
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BBC:   Operation Tutela: Woman arrested in privacy breach probe
Jessica Wohl / Reuters:
Target to showcase CNET reviews as it courts gadget shoppers  —  (Reuters) - Target Corp is bringing reviews from tech news website CNET into its aisles in time for the holiday season as it tries to stand out from a crowd of stores and websites selling a mix of new gadgets.
Discussion: GigaOM
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Book publisher earnings roundup: HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster  —  HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster's parent companies both reported earnings Wednesday.  While News Corp shared little about HarperCollins' performance, CBS noted that digital made up 21 percent of Simon & Schuster's revenues for the quarter.
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Crowdfunding Citizen Journalism in Cairo  —  Mosireen, a media collective in downtown Cairo that offers equipment and training to citizen journalists, was born out of the effort by activists to document the Egyptian revolution online.  As the group's mission statement says …
TBO.com:
Maas leaving as Tampa Tribune's executive editor  —  TAMPA — Tampa Tribune executive editor Richard “Duke” Maas said today he will be leaving the position at the end of this month.  In an email to employees, Maas said that he and publisher William Barker mutually agreed to the move …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
David Elstein calls for breakup of BBC news in wake of Jimmy Savile scandal  —  David Elstein, the former Channel 5 and BSkyB executive, has called for the BBC Trust to be abolished and for the corporation's news and current affairs operation to be broken up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Is Tumblr the new GeoCities?  VC Fred Wilson says no, points to ads  —  In the late 1990s, web-hosting site GeoCities burst into the world's top ten websites and attracted $3.5 billion from Yahoo — then quickly became internet road kill.  As investors drool over a new generation of sites …
Discussion: NYConvergence.com
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Bradley Manning Offers To Admit To Leaking Secrets To WikiLeaks In Court Plea  —  In the more than 900 days since Bradley Manning was first jailed as the suspected source of the WikiLeaks' bombshell releases of 2010 and early 2011, his legal defense has never disputed that the young Army private leaked …
Kelly McBride / Poynter:
What Nate Silver's success says about the 4th and 5th estates  —  Many are declaring the 2012 presidential election a victory for Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight blog.  His success this political season — in both predicting the electoral college vote and in driving traffic to the New York Times …
Discussion: WBUR and Forbes
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Man Behind Anti-Islam Video Gets Prison Term  —  LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the man behind “Innocence of Muslims,” the anti-Islam YouTube video that ignited bloody protests in the Muslim world, to one year in prison for violating parole.
Discussion: Deadline, L.A. NOW, Wired and Gawker
Alan D. Mutter / Editor & Publisher:
Newsosaur: Publishers Fail to Diversify Digital Audience  —  Though newspapers have been pretty good over the years at growing traffic on their websites, they are shockingly bad at capitalizing on the social power of digital media to broaden their audiences.
Discussion: mediabistro.com
 
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L. Wayne Hicks / Denver Business Journal:
Denver Post to sell share of Colorado Rockies
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Photographers Will Soon Be The Most Valuable People In The News Room
Discussion: TechCrunch
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CBS posts 15.7% profit increase in third quarter
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
BuzzFeed's First Election Night
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Cord-Keeping: Pay TV Shrinks for the Quarter, Stays Steady for the Year
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Candidate who received free ads from Seattle Times won't concede race
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