Mediagazer: Patten faces national newspaper heat over Entwistle's generous pay-off (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

7:05 AM ET, November 12, 2012

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BBC:

BBC head of news ‘steps aside’ — The BBC's director of news and her deputy have “stepped aside”, the BBC understands. — The move by Helen Boaden and Steve Mitchell comes after director general George Entwistle quit on Saturday. — The BBC said it was not commenting yet, but there will be an announcement within hours.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Patten faces national newspaper heat over Entwistle's generous pay-off — Oh dear! The BBC staggers from one crisis to another by having decided to pay the outgoing director-general, George Entwistle, a full year's salary after his lamentable 54-day term in the job.

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Emily Bell / CJR:

What's happening at the BBC — The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence — “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — A very British crisis needs a very British epigraph.

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John Ware / Guardian:
A personal tragedy, and a hammer blow for an honest institution

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John Plunkett / Guardian: Newsnight insiders fear it will not survive scandal

Reuters:
BBC must reform or die, says Trust chairman

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

MSNBC, Its Ratings Rising, Gains Ground on Fox News — On Tuesday night, with a minute to go until the polls closed in the battleground state of Virginia, the MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews received word through their earpieces that the state was too close to call …

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David Carr / New York Times:

Fox News's Election Coverage Followed Journalistic Instincts — It has been suggested, here and elsewhere, that Fox News effectively became part of the Republican propaganda apparatus during the presidential campaign by giving pundit slots to many of the Republican candidates and relentlessly advocating …

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Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:

The Sins Of General David Petraeus — Petraeus seduced America. We should never have trusted him. — The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated on America started many years before the general seduced Paula Broadwell, a lower ranking officer 20 years his junior, after meeting her on a campus visit to Harvard.

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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:

How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus — Gen. David Petraeus gives the thumbs up with his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony. Photo: DOD — When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Changing Channels: YouTube Will Pull the Plug on at Least 60 Percent of Its Programming Deals — YouTube has helped fund about 160 “channels” as part of a new strategy to make the video site more TV-like. — And just like the TV world, YouTube isn't going to renew all of last season's programs.

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Responsive design: Opportunities and challenges for news sites — Digital experts from the Guardian, Time.com, the BBC and the Midland News Association share some key considerations for news outlets planning a responsive redesign — Copyright: By Sue Adair on Geograph. Some rights reserved.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Luring developers into the newsroom: A new class of Knight-Mozilla fellows tries to bridge a cultural divide — The laws of supply and demand are working very differently in two different parts of major newsrooms. — In the United States, at least, there's a surplus of people who want to make phone calls …

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race — As Americans' modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seems to be changing as well. In last Tuesday's presidential election, a number of polling firms that conduct their surveys online had strong results.

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Jessica Bruder / Christian Science Monitor:

Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? — The death of newspapers - by cutbacks, outright disappearance, or morphing into lean websites - means a reduction of watchdog reporting and less local information. Some say it has caused a crop in civic participation. Is it a blow to good citizenship?

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Can NowThis News Crack Mobile Video? — News clearly needs a healthy dose of reinvention. NowThis News is an ambitious attempt to do just that with news video made for a mobile world. — NowThis, founded by former Huffington Post execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau and backed by $5 million …

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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Spotify Is Having A Good 2012: Revenues Could Reach $500M As It Expands The Digital Music Market — Spotify, the streaming music startup, was having serious trouble paying its bills, if you believed reports from earlier this year. Its 2011 financials showed a loss of nearly $60 million on revenues of $244 million.

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