Mediagazer: News Corp names new head of publishing division, new Dow Jones leader, WSJ editor (Julie Moos/Poynter)

8:40 AM ET, December 3, 2012

Top News:

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

News Corp to split as top executive Tom Mockridge goes — News Corporation's most senior executive in Britain is to leave the company, as the media behemoth controlled by Rupert Murdoch accelerates plans to split into two, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. — Tom Mockridge …

Discussion: @joshhalliday, Bloomberg, Guardian, Media Decoder, Nieman Journalism Lab, AllThingsD, Financial Times, @davidfolkenflik, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine and Wall Street Journal

Julie Moos / Poynter:

News Corp names new head of publishing division, new Dow Jones leader, WSJ editor — In advance of the company's formal split, News Corp has named Robert Thomson the new CEO of its publishing division, while promoting Gerard Baker to lead Dow Jones and become managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Guardian:

Tom Mockridge's resignation email to News International staff — Chief executive's message to company personnel following formal announcement by Rupert Murdoch — First, I apologise that this message comes to you after the formal announcement by Rupert Murdoch late last night of my resignation …

Discussion: The Wrap

Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:

Tom Mockridge, News International CEO, Steps Down After Being Passed Over — Tom Mockridge, the CEO of News International, the U.K. newspaper unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has resigned, the company announced Sunday night. — His exit, effective at year's end, comes amid reports …

Discussion: Media News, Media Week, NetNewsCheck Latest and Guardian

Adam Taylor / Business Insider:

News Corp Is Shutting Down iPad-Only Newspaper The Daily — The latest News Corp press release says that the Daily, its standalone daily iPad newspaper, will “cease standalone publication”. — Here's what the press release says: — News Corporation also announced that effective immediately …

Rupert Murdoch / @rupertmurdoch:

Congratulations to Robert Thomson, incoming CEO of our publishing company. A special leader and great friend. Also an Aussie!

Mark Sweney / @marksweney:

Mike Darcey, BSKyB coo, to replace Tom Mockridge as CEO of News International

A Edgecliffe-Johnson / @edgecliffe:

Jesse Angelo becomes publisher of the NY Post. The Daily ceases publication.

David Carr / New York Times:

A Stalwart of Time Inc. Packs Up — In the decade I've covered John Huey, I'd never once been to his magisterial office on the 34th floor of the Time & Life building. It is large and imposing in a way its occupant is not, an unlikely landing spot for an old newspaper hack.

Discussion: @megan

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Pocket partners with Matter, brings deep journalism to its read-it-later platform — Read-it-later platform Pocket has closed its first publisher partnership with Kickstarter-funded media outlet Matter, the company announced today in a blog post. — Following the agreement …

Discussion: Pocket Blog

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of going deeper — The news industry appears to be having another one of its Admiral Stockdale moments. Who am I? Why am I here? — From Columbia's “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” report ("A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe" …