Mediagazer: Conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz buys Colorado Springs Gazette (Jim Romenesko)

2:55 PM ET, November 30, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Jeff Zucker's memo to CNN staff — Incoming CNN president Jeff Zucker has sent a memo to the staff, promising to stay “committed to maintaining CNN's core mission” as the network evolves under his leadership. — “I don't have all the answers. No one does,” he wrote.

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Inside Cable News:
Reading Jeff Zucker and Phil Kent's Tea Leaves...

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Make CNN The Google Of News: Radical Unsolicited Advice For Jeff Zucker

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Carla Caldwell / Atlanta Business Journal:
Head of Atlanta-based CNN to be based in New York for first time

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Evidence Points to Cover-Up, Leveson Reports — News Corp. (NWSA)'s testimony about how a phone-hacking scandal was handled points to a possible cover-up at multiple levels within the organization, according to the findings of an inquiry into media ethics.

Discussion: Guardian, FishbowlNY and The New Republic

Guardian:

David Cameron accused of dismissing Leveson report too quickly — Madeleine McCann's father expresses concern over PM's reaction to judge's recommendations — David Cameron is facing accusations of being too quick to dismiss the Leveson inquiry's proposals after the culture secretary confirmed …

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Piers Morgan claims over phone hacking branded ‘utterly unpersuasive’

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Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:

Esquire in New Venture With Digital Publisher — Esquire magazine announced on Friday a partnership with Byliner, a digital publishing start-up, that will have three distinct components accessible to readers through e-books: collections of short fiction by undiscovered authors …

USA Today:

Cleveland paper braces for change — Ohio's largest newspaper, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, could soon face the end of its 170-year run as a daily print publication. But employees and community leaders aren't about to let it happen without protests. The “Save The Plain Dealer” campaign …

Angie Schmitt / Rust Wire: “Saving” the Plain Dealer

Keach Hagey / Digits:

ComScore To Include Mobile Traffic in New Measurement — One of the big downsides of an increasingly mobile online world, so far, is that mobile advertising has been slow to catch up to the amount of time people spend with their smartphones and tablets. — This year, for example …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Pew: 37% of cell phone owners use them to get news online — A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that more than one third of cell phone owners use the devices to get news online. — More men than women use their phones to get news online …

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Network Giants Argue In Appeals Court: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company — Today the Southern District Court of NY heard the oral argumentsfrom Fox, ABC, Univision and a handful of other cable broadcast providers who wish to see streaming network TV startup Aereo's business shut down.

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Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Editor Is Snared in Trading Probe — When Michael Baron's buddies passed on a hot stock tip at a basketball game last year, the senior editor for financial-news website TheStreet.com gave it little thought. — A year later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation came knocking and told …

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Jack Limpert / About Editing and Writing:

Why Marty Baron Should Not Listen to David Carr — Q, What's the difference between the New York Times and the Washington Post? — A. One is a monopoly newspaper. — Last week New York Times media columnist David Carr started a small battle with the Post when he slammed Post publisher …

Jim Romenesko:

Conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz buys Colorado Springs Gazette — Philip Anschutz's Clarity Media Group closed on its purchase of the Colorado Springs Gazette — formerly a Freedom Communications paper — and pledged to hire staff and increase the size of the paper.

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Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal:

King of TV for Now, CBS Girds for Digital Battle — When Showtime executives wanted to recast a female role in their blockbuster thriller “Homeland” early last year, they went to Leslie Moonves for his blessing. The chief executive of CBS Corp., which owns the cable network …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Response to Leveson report fills UK front pages — Sixteen months in the making, the report and recommendations from Lord Leveson's inquiry into the British press released Thursday were met with resistance from England's Prime Minister and rejected by many media watchers.

Discussion: Guardian, The Conversation and The Independent

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

BitTorrent's Plan for 2013? Go Legit — BitTorrent, the start-up behind the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing system of the same name, has an unusual resolution for 2013: to align itself with the entertainment industry and legally distribute movies, music and books online.

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Michael Wolff / GQ.COM:

How Leveson failed — Oh, for God's sake seems to me the fairest response to the Leveson report. — After nine months of hearings, the inquiry calls for a goopy, bureaucratic, obfuscating oversight board, which could be perilous to the freedom of the press or as likely toothless.

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