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1:05 PM ET, November 13, 2012

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Marcus Brauchli to step down as editor of The Washington Post  —  The Washington Post announced Tuesday that Martin Baron, the editor of the Boston Globe, will become its new executive editor, replacing Marcus Brauchli, who is resigning to take a new position within the company.
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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron  —  The Washington Post, facing steep financial challenges and striving to find profitability as readers abandon print papers for digital formats, changed its newsroom leadership Tuesday.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Baron: ‘No road map’ yet for the Post  —  Marty Baron, who has just been named executive editor of the Washington Post, says he has “no road map” for the paper's digital future, but promises to position it for success.  —  “I don't have a road map.  I want to spend time talking to the staff.
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
BBC news chief pleads with staff not to Tweet about ‘our problems’  —  Fran Unsworth, the new temporary head of BBC News, has appealed to staff not to Tweet about “our problems” as she tries to sort out the mess of the Newsnight scandal.  Referring to the “tumultuous and very sad events of the past few days” …
Discussion: mediabistro.com, Daily Dot and BBC
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New York Times:
BBC Begins Disciplinary Action After Reporting Debacle  —  LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that disciplinary action was beginning against unidentified news personnel linked to a scandal over reporting of child abuse that wrongly implicated a senior Conservative Party politician.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ
Discussion: The Times
Brendan O'Neill / Telegraph:
This isn't the first time that Angus Stickler and Newsnight have made OTT claims about secret child abusers
Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:
The institutional paranoia of the BBC and its unsure future
David Leigh / Guardian:   Investigative journalism must live on despite the Newsnight crisis
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
BBC trustees keen to offer DG job to outsider
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
BBC turmoil worsens as Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell hire lawyers to deny they willingly ‘stepped aside’
Discussion: BBC
Vernon Loeb / Washington Post:
Petraeus ghostwriter ‘clueless’ to affair  —  My wife says I'm the most clueless person in America.  —  I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Confirmed: ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book: “All up in my snatch”  —  Oh my.  —  A reader just sent me something that I didn't believe.  Then he sent me a photo.  Then he sent me a video.  Then I found a comment on ABC Denver's Web site from another viewer who saw the same thing.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Moves to Shake Up ‘Today’ Leadership  —  NBC is completing a plan to change the leadership at the “Today” show, the longtime first-place morning show that slid to second place this year during the controversial removal of Ann Curry.  —  Alexandra Wallace, a senior vice president of NBC News …
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Bloomberg:
NBC Universal Said to Cut About 450 Jobs Across Units
Discussion: Deadline.com
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Inside Forbes: Journalists Need to Understand the Ad Business, Not Sulk and Go Home  —  I can get very frustrated with editors and reporters who prefer to live in their own little world.  When it happens, I do my best to remember I used to be one of them — until their stubbornness makes me incredulous all over again.
Discussion: Big News Network.com and AdAge
The Patriot-News:
Sara Ganim, who won Pulitzer Prize for Sandusky coverage, accepts job with CNN  —  Sara Ganim, The Patriot-News crime reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, has accepted a position as a correspondent with CNN.  —  Ganim started with CNN this week.
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Government surveillance on the rise says new Google report  —  Google has issued new findings on government requests for information, and once again, the results are not cheerful.  The search giant says that requests to remove content have “spiked” and that “one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise.”
Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette:
Sun investigations chief: Bribery Act has forced us to turn away whistleblowers  —  Brian Flynn addressing the Society of Editors conference in Belfast  —  Sun investigations editor Brian Flynn has warned that the fear of arrest is stopping journalists from pursuing public interest stories provided by public sector whistle-blowers.
Discussion: Guardian
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Bookboard tries Netflix-like model for kids' ebooks  —  Former Adobe executives Fang Chang and Nigel Pegg know that kids love iPads, and they wanted to offer them something more educational than YouTube or Angry Birds.  So they are launching Bookboard, an iPad app that gives parents …
Discussion: AppNewser and Digital Book World
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The GOP's media cocoon  —  A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
The New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback?  —  It's not exactly the entrance Mark Thompson had planned for his first day at the Times, but it's an entrance.  —  Call it dis-harmonic convergence.  In the days leading up to and including his first day on the job …
Discussion: Guardian and CJR
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Book publisher earnings roundup: Hachette, Random House
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Wanderful Media Acquires Mobile Newspaper Shopping Ads Platform iCircular From The AP
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Is Now Live In 17 Countries After Quietly Adding Ireland And Luxembourg Today
Discussion: The Next Web and hypebot
Andrew Romano / The Daily Beast:
How a nerd named Nate Silver changed political reporting forever
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Wikipedia's for-profit cousin Wikia unveils its new Lightbox video player and a slew of syndication deals
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
MTV Hires New President of Programming
Discussion: The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FilmOn Countersues Fox Over Aerokiller
Discussion: Cable Television News
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John Koblin / Deadspin:
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Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
Look Out, New York: Randi Zuckerberg Is Casting for a New Techcentric Bravo Show Set in the Big Apple
Discussion: PC Magazine and Digits
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
The Wall Street Journal launches The Accelerators and Startup Journal to cover entrepreneurship
Discussion: Talking Biz News and The Wrap
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Businessweek: Polls of student attractiveness were “in poor taste”
Daniel D'Addario / The New York Observer:
The Simpsons Mocks Karl Rove, Corporate Partner Fox News
Discussion: Deadline.com
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Daily News’ scrambling to relocate staff as storm-drenched downtown headquarters dry out
Discussion: Media Decoder
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times union members ‘deeply divided’ on contract vote