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Top News:

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.

Discussion: Media Nation, Poynter, New York Magazine, CJR, The Huffington Post, @andrewphelps, Boston Globe, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @craigsilverman, @myersnews and WBUR

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.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlDC, NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, The Wrap, mediabistro.com and The Daily Beast

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.

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true

Discussion: Forbes and City Desk

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.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, City Desk, BuzzFeed, FishbowlDC, Poynter, Garcia Media, LA Observed, Daily Download, Speakeasy, Los Angeles Times, Pressing Issues and The Huffington Post

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.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Random Pixels, Mediaite, Betabeat, Gawker, The Daily Caller, TheDenverChannel.com, HyperVocal, The Latest Word, The Raw Story, Ostrow Off The Record and The Huffington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private — FBI investigators stumbled across Gen. David Petraeus' affair with Paula Broadwell by tracking harassing emails she allegedly sent to another woman, Jill Kelley. It's not clear whether those emails were sent from a Gmail account …

Discussion: Forbes, Poynter, Wired, WorldViews, @csoghoian and Hit & Run

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, Poynter, Daily Dot, BBC and Telegraph

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder

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

Discussion: TheMediaBriefing, Guardian, National Updates and Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

David Leigh / Guardian: Investigative journalism must live on despite the Newsnight crisis

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter Hires ‘Broadcasting & Cable’ Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations — Ben Grossman, editor-in-chief of long-lived trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, announced this morning that he's joining Twitter as Head of Global Operations, Twitter Media. — Naturally, the announcement was made via Twitter.

Discussion: Lost Remote and Broadcasting & Cable

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

First female editor named at Broadcasting & Cable — Melissa Grego, currently executive editor, has been named editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable, replacing Ben Grossman, who stepped aside as editor-in-chief of Broadcasting & Cable and will join Twitter as head of global operations, Twitter Media.

Bloomberg:

NBC Universal Said to Cut About 450 Jobs Across Units — Third-Quarter Ad Sales at Cable Networks Grew 1% — Comcast's NBC Universal is cutting about 450 jobs at several divisions of the broadcast, film and cable company, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Moves to Shake Up ‘Today’ Leadership

Discussion: Business Insider, Mediaite, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Media Law Prof Blog

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.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Poynter, TVNewser, The Huffington Post and @sganim

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