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10:40 PM ET, November 20, 2012

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New York Times:
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 …
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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.
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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.
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
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Another Big YouTube Bet: Time Warner Leads $40 Million Maker Studios Round  —  Here comes more money for YouTube videos.  But these dollars don't come from YouTube: Time Warner is leading a big round of financing for Maker Studios, a startup that specializes in creating and distributing clips for the video giant.
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.
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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
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
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.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Raises $800 Million, Analysts See Potential for Acquisitions
Discussion: Fox Business
 
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