Mediagazer: Plain Dealer journalists plan pre-emptive campaign against reduced print, staff cuts (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

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 …

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

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

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 …

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, Ars Technica and Media News

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: Adweek, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

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

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

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 …

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