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4:35 AM ET, November 8, 2012

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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?” …
Discussion: Forbes, Slate, bookforum.com and The Week
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Times Was Slower, but Sure, in Calling the Presidential Election  —  A few observations on Tuesday night's online coverage and Wednesday's print edition:  —  The Empire State Building was in blue lights, Mitt Romney's Boston crowd was looking despondent, and even the careful Associated Press …
Discussion: The Wrap
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Twitter Stands Alone  —  In case you missed it, the United States elected a president yesterday.  I try to stay away from politics — it's only fun in Chicago, anyway — but last night, I anxiously tuned in.  —  Election night television, it seems, hasn't changed much in the past four years …
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Sam Youngman / Reuters:
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Karl Rove Fought With Fox News Over the Ohio Call  —  Megyn Kelly in Fox's decision room.  —  Shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes assembled his network's election team in a second floor conference room at Fox's midtown headquarters to discuss the night's coverage.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Nate Silver's Biggest Critic Blames Botched Prediction, Romney's Loss On Hurricane Sandy  —  Correctly predicting the results of the presidential election in 50 out of 50 states makes Nate Silver look pretty smart — unless you're a dug-in critic, in which case maybe you just think it makes him look pretty lucky.
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Trevor Butterworth / The Daily Beast:   Revenge of the Nerd: Nate Silver Is 2012's Other Winner
Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:
Nate Silver's Model Proves To Be Stunning Portrait Of Logic Over Punditry
Discussion: Slate and The Huffington Post
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Another election-night victory: CNN clocks most viewers in cable news  —  During last night's election coverage from Fox Broadcasting Network, which was airing on local Fox affiliates simultaneous to the coverage on Fox News, anchor Shepard Smith likened the American election system to cable news ratings.
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Richard Lawson / The Atlantic Wire:
Fox News Lost the Election Too, But Let's Not Gloat
Discussion: AdAge and TVNewser
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: GigaOM
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 …
Discussion: Firedoglake, CNET, Wired and Techdirt
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
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Producer Sentenced To Year In Prison  —  The producer of the anti-Islam film The Innocence Of Muslims has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for probation violations.  Mark Basseley Youssef, aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, admitted in a hearing in Los Angeles today …
Discussion: Gawker
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Cord-Keeping: Pay TV Shrinks for the Quarter, Stays Steady for the Year  —  What with the crazy weather and Nate Silver's ascension to geek heaven and everything else, not a surprise that we didn't get to this yesterday.  But, for the record: The pay-TV business lost 127,000 subscribers last quarter.
L. Wayne Hicks / Denver Business Journal:
Denver Post to sell share of Colorado Rockies … The Denver Post is putting its minority stake in the Colorado Rockies baseball team up for sale.  —  New York-based Digital First Media, which operates Post owner MediaNews Group, announced Wednesday the selloff of the 7.3 percent stake …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Photographers Will Soon Be The Most Valuable People In The News Room  —  Photographers will soon be the most valuable people in the newsroom, and it won't be long before they put writers out of jobs.  —  Why?  —  Because, when you're on the go, the easiest stories to consume, create or share aren't text based.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Diane Sawyer Has Read Your Tweets, ‘The Good, Bad and the Funny’  —  ABC's Diane Sawyer, trending for a time on Twitter last night for what some are calling oddball behavior during election coverage, has taken to Twitter herself, acknowledging the chatter about her.
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Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse
Discussion: Gawker and The Atlantic Wire
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Denies Injunction Against Dish ‘AutoHop Ad-Skipper’ (Exclusive)  —  Judge Dolly Gee makes a secret ruling on a technology that Fox argues will irreparably harm the television industry.  —  On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles refused to grant Fox Broadcasting's …
Discussion: The Verge and Los Angeles Times
Erik Wemple:
MSNBC's Matthews says he's ‘glad we had that storm last week’  —  Last night on MSNBC, Chris Matthews took a moment to deliver a lofty summation of election night.  He professed to be “proud of the country.”  He credited President Obama for overcoming “all this assault on him.”
Discussion: Mediaite
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
25 election front pages let pictures speak louder with words
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Arrested Sun journalists are between a rock and a hard place  —  Arrested Sun journalists are finding themselves caught between a rock and hard place as they contemplate their dilemma while on police bail.  Some of them would like to help Scotland Yard police who are investigating …
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Guardian:   Mirror Group journalists questioned by company lawyers over alleged hacking
 
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CBS posts 15.7% profit increase in third quarter
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
BuzzFeed's First Election Night
Matthew DeBord / DeBord Report:
Could Rupert Murdoch buy both the LA Times and the Financial Times?
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
NBC Universal and American Express Try to Bring Dawn of ‘Television Commerce’
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Maria Miller faces calls for independent inquiry into BBC journalist's death
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Candidate who received free ads from Seattle Times won't concede race
Discussion: The Seattle Times and Civil Beat
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
DC Comics Announces Deals To Sell Digital Comics In Big Three E-Bookstores, Says Digital Sales Have Grown 197%
Discussion: CNET, TUAW, The Verge and paidContent
 Earlier Picks: 
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Apollo in Talks on McGraw-Hill Unit
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Fox News Election Coverage: Questions Turn From President Obama's Victory To 2nd Term Mandate
Discussion: The Wrap and New York Times
Samuel Rubenfeld / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp Takes $67 Million Charge on Phone-Hacking Scandal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
Bloomberg:
Fewer Cords Cut but Higher Customer Acquisition Costs for Dish