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12:50 PM ET, November 9, 2012

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times to welcome new CEO Monday  —  Incoming CEO Mark Thompson is scheduled to start work on Monday.  Thompson “missed opportunities” to address a sex abuse scandal while he was director general of the BBC, the paper has reported.  Joe Hagan has written “one senior executive I spoke …
Discussion: New York Post
Noreen Malone / The New Republic:
Megyn Kelly Can Save Fox News  —  Tuesday night's election results may not have been good for Republicans, but they were very good for Fox.  CNN, riding a tide of normally-cable-avoidant viewers, won the evening, technically, but Fox came in a close ratings second and won YouTube—thanks …
Discussion: Poynter
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Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette:
Guardian journalists opt for strike vote as showdown looms over compulsory redundancies  —  Guardian journalists yesterday voted to hold a strike ballot in response to management proposals to cut up to 100 editorial jobs.  —  The decision was taken at a packed meeting of the Guardian News …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Election night traffic, trends and strategies from The New York Times, CNN, BuzzFeed, and more  —  Video, data, and mobile news were the big themes for election night coverage in 2012.  Though it's no longer unusual to see a media outlet blur the lines between TV, online news …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Plain Dealer journalists plan pre-emptive campaign against reduced print, staff cuts  —  Advance Publications hasn't said whether it intends to reduce the publication schedule or staff at The Plain Dealer, but journalists at the Cleveland paper want to get ahead of any decision their owners might make.
Discussion: WKYC-TV
Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWrite:
Toward A Digital Code Of Ethics For Journalists & Researchers  —  The rise of the Internet has created a real need to define a code of digital ethics and privacy.  I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I attended the second annual International Digital Ethics Symposium last week.
Discussion: @mattbuchanan, Thanks:@michaelroston
Economist:
Newspapers versus Google: Taxing times  —  IN 2009 Rupert Murdoch called Google and other search engines “content kleptomaniacs”.  Now cash-strapped newspapers want to put legal pressure on what they see as parasitical news aggregators.  In Germany politicians are considering a bill …
AAN:
Voice Media Group Settles Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against Yelp  —  Voice Media Group has settled its trademark infringement lawsuit against Yelp.  —  The suit, filed in Arizona on October 25, accused Yelp of a trademark infringement after Yelp's use of the federally registered trademarks …
Jonathan Russell / Telegraph:
News International could face charges over bribery allegations  —  News International, the owner of The Sun and The Times newspapers, could face corporate corruption charges over alleged bribery of public officials, it has emerged.  —  Police working on Operation Elveden have been investigating allegations …
Agence France Presse:
US sanctions Iran over Internet, media censorship  —  WASHINGTON — Washington unveiled sanctions Thursday against top Iranians and national bodies, including the communications minister and the culture ministry, hitting back for media and Internet censorship.
Discussion: ZDNet, Ars Technica and Media News
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Jury says journalist arrested while videotaping police is not guilty  —  Miami man plans to sue department over unauthorized deletion of his footage.  —  A jury acquitted a Florida photojournalist who was arrested on January 31 while documenting the eviction of Occupy Miami protesters.
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
No More Media ‘Disruption,’ Just Some Slow-Melting Icebergs  —  “Be disruptive” is a continued cry for many media companies, both traditional and new.  CBS might be taking much of this to heart.  Years after major TV-based media companies committed to partnering and selling programming …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Why did Amazon turn off buy buttons on Big 6 ebooks last night?  —  Amazon mysteriously turned off the buy buttons on big-six publishers' Kindle books for several hours on Thursday night, in what the company later said was a glitch.  —  The problem began around 10:30 p.m. ET and seemed …
Discussion: Digital Book World
New York Business Journal:
News Corp. buys out ESPN Star Sports venture  —  News Corp. has completed the purchase of ESPN Star Sports, a 50-50- venture it had with ESPN Inc.  —  Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed.  —  The companies on June 6 announced their agreement on the acquisition, made through a News Corp. subsidiary.
Discussion: MediaNama
Ben Kersey / The Verge:
Google TV brings music and movies to Europe on November 13th  —  Available in the UK, France, and Germany  —  Google blessed American Google TV owners with the ability to buy or rent content from Google Play last month, and now it's extending the same courtesy to international devices.
Discussion: CNET, Pocket-lint and The Next Web
 
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
PR and the price on a blogger's head
Discussion: TechCrunch
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Ex-Cameron Aide Coulson Appeals News Corp. Legal Fees Ruling
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Netflix and the threat to digital media businesses from hostile investors
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don't Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future
Politico:
The new ‘no comment’: F— off
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
What's Going to Kill the TV Business?
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Peter Chernin Rounds Up Another $100 Million, This Time From Qatar
Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:
ESPN Spurs Disney Gains, but Forecast Is Cautious
 Earlier Picks: 
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Right's Jennifer Rubin Problem: An Information Disadvantage Case Study
Bill Adair / PolitiFact:
The value of fact-checking in the 2012 campaign
Discussion: Politico
Michael Mechanic / Mother Jones:
Power Down Your Smartphone—the Magazine is About to Begin
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study)
Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:
In Deal With Wiley, Houghton Acquires Cookbooks and CliffsNotes
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran accused of torturing blogger to death