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9:20 AM ET, November 8, 2012

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 Top News: 
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 and The Wrap
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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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: Stephen Baker and Slate
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.
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 …
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
BBC:
Operation Tutela: Woman arrested in privacy breach probe  —  The woman is the 18th arrested in connection with Operation Tuleta  —  The Metropolitan Police have arrested a woman in connection with their probe into alleged privacy breaches.  —  Scotland Yard said the 45-year old had been arrested …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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.
Guardian:
Mirror Group journalists questioned by company lawyers over alleged hacking  —  Journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers are being formally interviewed by company lawyers in response to legal action launched last month over alleged phone hacking.  Several journalists working …
Discussion: paidContent
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:   Arrested Sun journalists are between a rock and a hard place
 
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Photographers Will Soon Be The Most Valuable People In The News Room
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
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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
Discussion: The Seattle Times and Civil Beat