Mediagazer: News International could face charges over bribery allegations (Jonathan Russell/Telegraph)

11:05 AM ET, November 9, 2012

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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 …

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

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 …

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

PR and the price on a blogger's head — A small storm rocked the ever tense relationship between tech blogs and the PR industry today, when TechCrunch revealed that one firm was charging a specific amount to clients it successfully got covered there. — PRserve, TechCrunch noted …

Discussion: TechCrunch

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 …

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 …

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, Media News and Ars Technica

Al Barbarino / The Commercial Observer:

Daily News's 4 New York Plaza Offices Could Be Uninhabitable For a Year — It could be up to a year before the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report are allowed back into their 4 New York Plaza headquarters, which were “wiped out” by Hurricane Sandy, Mortimer B. Zuckerman said today.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

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 …

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.

Discussion: Poynter, PINAC, @carlosmiller, @jcstearns and Riptide 2.0

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don't Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future — For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. The concise guide is here. — My narrative has stayed pretty simple:

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

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

Ex-Cameron Aide Coulson Appeals News Corp. Legal Fees Ruling — Andy Coulson, a former editor of News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-press chief, asked an appeals court to make the company pay his legal fees in a criminal phone-hacking case.

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Netflix and the threat to digital media businesses from hostile investors — This is adapted from our Finance and Deals Newsletter, sent every Friday at 7am to subscribers. We have newsletters for all media sectors and they're all free - sign up at www.themediabriefing.com/newsletters.

Mark Cuban / The Huffington Post:

Fox News Should Watch Dancing With the Stars — I have to be honest, I watch Fox News more often than any of the other cable news nets. I watch CNN next, then MSNBC. So let's get that out of the way. I watched Fox and MSNBC during the election cycle because they told me the worst possible elements …

Discussion: Mediaite and New York Times