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9:35 PM ET, November 20, 2012

Top News:

Former Murdoch Aides to Be Charged With Bribery — LONDON — In a dramatic new turn in the scandals swirling around Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper outpost, prosecutors said on Tuesday that two former top executives — Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks — will be charged with making corrupt payments …

Discussion: ProPublica, Media Decoder, Chickaboomer, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Vanity Fair, Guardian and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Kate Holton / Reuters:
Ex-Cameron aide charged over royal family details

Discussion: New Statesman, Channel 4, Metro.co.uk, BBC, Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent and Guardian

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson charges set new context for Leveson

Al Jazeera Blogs:

Al Jazeera office damaged in Gaza City airstrike — Al Jazeera's bureau in Gaza City has been damaged after an airstrike hit the nearby Abu Khadra government building. A residential building in the area was on fire after the strike.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Abigail Hauslohner / @ahauslohner:

IDF just hit right next to us, blew out the windows in our hotel room #Gaza. AP, AFP, Jazeera bldgs also hit tonight

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Mark Regev, Israeli Spokesman, Spars With Al Jazeera Over Strikes On Media Buildings (VIDEO)

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, Mediaite and Reuters

Wall Street Journal:

News Corp., CBS in Talks Over Merging Book Businesses — News Corp ., owner of HarperCollins Publishers, has expressed interest to CBS Corp. about acquiring its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks. — The people described the talks as preliminary and cautioned that a deal isn't imminent.

Discussion: Quartz, Deadline.com, Business Insider, The New York Observer, GalleyCat, paidContent, The Huffington Post and New York Times

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Social Curation Site Storify Gets A Search- And Media-Centric Redesign — Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center. — The site — which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram …

Discussion: Poynter, Groundswell and The Next Web

Lauren Indvik / Mashable: Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery

Jill Goldsmith / Variety:

Jeff Bewkes inks 5-year pact with Time Warner — Extension keeps CEO at helm of conglom through 2017 — Time Warner said Tuesday it has reupped with chairman-CEO Jeff Bewkes, inking a five year contract extension that will keep him at the media giant through 2017.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Media & Entertainment, Media Decoder, TVNewser, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press

Nadine Schimroszik / Guardian:

FT Deutschland to close, say staff — Journalists at the FT Deutschland claim that Wednesday's edition will be the last, with its owners due to meet the same day — Wednesday's edition of Financial Times Deutschland is expected to be the last published, according to staff at the title.

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Roger Ailes: ‘My life would be so much easier if I were just more liberal.’ — When Roger Ailes was a kid he used to watch Roy Rogers movies. He used to love the part where “the cattle would all start heading toward the cliff in a stampede. And one poor son-of-a-bitch had to go out there and ride …

John Hopewell / Variety:

Disney Movies on Demand launches in Spain — Wuaki.tv deal marks Europe's second bow for SVOD offer — MADRID — The Walt Disney Company Spain and Portugal and Spanish portal Wuaki.tv, owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, have teamed to launch a Disney-branded subscription video …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
iTunes-like Disney Movies Online service shuttered because there weren't enough users

Discussion: Deadline.com

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

@NYTOnIt author Benjamin Kabak ‘zero percent interested in picking a fight’ with NYT — New York lawyer Benjamin Kabak's @NYTOnIt Twitter account was reinstated Tuesday morning after a complaint from The New York Times took it offline overnight. — “I'm zero percent interested in picking …

Discussion: City Room, Guardian, Daily Dot and New York Magazine

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Twitter Restores @NYTOnIt Parody Account

Discussion: @juliemmoos, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Betabeat, PC Magazine, Guardian, @bkabak, The Huffington Post and Gothamist

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Pot calls kettle black in New York Times piece on Washington Post business troubles — I am a huge David Carr fan. Great writer, great eye for news-about-news, a shoe-leather reporter when he needs to be (as when driving the frat boys from the Tribune Co. executive suite).

Discussion: CNET and Media Decoder

Allison Hoffman / Tablet Mag:

The ‘Kids’ Behind IDF's Media — After the first night of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, now almost a week ago, a photograph began circulating around Twitter of a grinning 11-month-old who had been killed by an Israeli missile that landed on his house. Within hours, Avital Leibovich …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Daily Download and Poynter

Bloomberg:

News Corp. to Acquire 49% of YES Network at $3 Billion Value — News Corp. (NWSA), the media company led by Rupert Murdoch, agreed to buy 49 percent of the YES Network, the cable channel that carries New York Yankees baseball games, in a deal that values the pay-TV outlet at about $3 billion.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Raises $800 Million, Analysts See Potential for Acquisitions

Discussion: Fox Business

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Pubs That Go Digital-Only Face New Requirements — Newsweek might have been the most high-profile magazine to go digital-only, but it's probably not the last. And so the Alliance for Audited Media—as the Audit Bureau of Circulations has renamed itself—has endorsed new guidelines for print publications that go digital-only.

Discussion: Sacramento Bee and NetNewsCheck Latest

Jim Romenesko:

Newspaper owner tells critic: No reviews of films featuring strong women — Michael Calleri wrote film reviews for the Niagara Falls Reporter for seven years — “a wonderful experience,” he says, until the weekly paper was sold earlier this year and then “veered so far off the cliff that it collided with itself.”

Discussion: Niagara Falls Reporter