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3:15 PM ET, November 19, 2012

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Rajeev Syal / Guardian:

BBC execs face grilling by MPs over £450k George Entwistle payoff — Commons committee to question BBC managers over payoff for former director general who resigned over Newsnight affair — MPs are to question BBC executives on Thursday over the £450,000 payoff agreed …

Discussion: exaronews.com/feed/latest and Media Law Prof Blog

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Lord McAlpine and ITV near settlement over Phillip Schofield blunder

Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette: Journalists among 10,000 who could face legal action over McAlpine Twitter messages

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Twitter is safer in America: lessons from two sex scandals

Discussion: New York Post and Telegraph

Guardian: BBC begins search for (another) director general

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

GetGlue Acquired by Viggle for $25M, Stock — Viggle Inc. has purchased GetGlue for $25 million in cash and 48.3 million shares in stock, with the goal of making the merged companies the dominate force in social TV. Together, the two companies will have more than 4 million users.

Discussion: Forbes, Lost Remote, AdAge, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Multichannel.com, VentureBeat, GigaOM, mediabistro.com, App Advice, Hollywood Reporter and Mashable!

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

GetGlue + Viggle Is a Big Bet Based on Small Numbers — Viggle, which pays users to “check in” to TV shows, says it will shell out more than $70 million for GetGlue, which lets users “check in” to TV shows, but doesn't pay them. — The combined company, according to a Viggle press release …

Discussion: Lost Remote

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viggle's Deal To Buy GetGlue Hinges On $60M Of Financing ‘From 2 Strategic Investors’, Expected To Close In Next 30 Days

Michael Kinsley / New York Magazine:

In Conversation: Tina Brown — Days after the election and a month before she'll retire the print edition of Newsweek, the pioneering editor talks with Michael Kinsley about the future for newsweeklies, American Anglophilia, and personally presiding over the end of the twentieth century.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Capital New York, The Wrap, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Guardian:

Operation Elveden: CPS to decide whether to bring charges — Prosecutors due to announce decision on criminal charges after investigation into payments by journalists to public officials — Prosecutors will announce on Tuesday if they believe they have enough evidence to bring criminal charges following …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Leveson inquiry: press intrusion victims to meet party leaders

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch and the Jews — His Twitter slip about the ‘Jewish-owned press’ was revealing - of prejudice, paranoia and neoconism - and none of it is pretty — Whoops. — Rupert Murdoch's unchaperoned tweeting was bound to get him into trouble. On Saturday, he slipped into an antisemitic usage …

Discussion: The Wrap, @christhilk, The Inquisitr, The Raw Story and The Daily Beast

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rupert Murdoch sorry for Jewish tweet

Discussion: CNN, Media Decoder, Poynter, The Huffington Post, @rupertmurdoch, @rupertmurdoch, The Daily Beast, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Hollywood Reporter, Slate, @pkafka, The Moderate Voice, Capital New York, The Raw Story, New York Magazine, Gawker and Mediaite

Reuters:

Israel bombs Gaza media building for second day — Israeli missiles blasted a tower block that houses many international media for a second straight day on Monday, targeting a computer shop in the building, witnesses said. — Medics said one person died in the attack while several people were wounded.

Discussion: AJE

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza answers questions on Reddit

Discussion: @pdanahar and Reuters

David Carr / New York Times:

Washington Post's Chief Falters Anew — At 11:45 a.m. last Tuesday, the editorial staff of The Washington Post was summoned on short notice to an announcement on the fifth floor of its building to hear something they already knew — that Marcus Brauchli would be leaving after four years as executive editor.

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, CJR and Washington Post

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Four things the Washington Post's new editor can do to avoid disaster

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Tom Rosenstiel to leave Pew's PEJ for API — Project for Excellence in Journalism director Tom Rosenstiel is leaving the organization to become executive director of the American Press Institute. API and the Newspaper Association of America announced in January they would merge.

Discussion: @vivianschiller

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

LEAKED: MySpace's Master Plan To Raise $50 Million And Relaunch As A Spotify Killer — The parent company of MySpace is trying to raise $50 million in order to re-launch MySpace as a direct competitor to Spotify and Pandora in 2013. — This is according to documents obtained by Business Insider, which we have included in this post.

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET and The Next Web

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Dyle Brings Legal, Live TV to Your iPad, With Many Strings Attached — Want to watch live TV on your iPad? You don't have many options. — A handful of networks, including Disney and ESPN, will stream shows to your tablet, but you'll need a cable subscription to make them work.

Discussion: Mashable!

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Slate Scales. But Is It Too Late to the Game? — Since Slate launched in 1996, there's always been the question of whether an online news magazine can attract enough advertising to support high-quality original content without a companion print product. Signs were pointing to “no” …

Guardian:

Sky magazine tax loophole saved broadcaster up to £40m a year — A magazine for satellite TV customers published by BSkyB was used as a tax avoidance scheme that saved the company up to £40m a year. The broadcaster had been saving millions in VAT by charging satellite customers …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Major Garrett Named CBS Chief White House Correspondent — Major Garrett, the former veteran Fox News White House reporter, has become the new chief White House correspondent for CBS News, the network announced Sunday morning. Bob Schieffer made the announcement on Sunday's “Face The Nation.”

Discussion: Chickaboomer, Politico, Mediaite, @brianstelter and TVNewser

The Hollywood Reporter:

The Hollywood Reporter, After 65 Years, Addresses Role in Blacklist — Billy Wilkerson was nervous. it was July 1946, and The Hollywood Reporter owner, editor and publisher was preparing to embark on a landmark campaign that would expose communists working in Hollywood.