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7:30 AM ET, December 3, 2012

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
News Corp to split as top executive Tom Mockridge poised to go  —  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.
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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 …
Josh Halliday / @joshhalliday:
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Is Said to Pick Thomson as CEO of Spinoff  —  Rupert Murdoch's choice of Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson to lead his publishing spinoff would put the company in the hands of a close lieutenant while underscoring the Journal's role in setting strategy.
Discussion: Guardian and @alansmurray
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
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" …
Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:
Mistaken Nation  —  In journalism, as in real life, stuff happens.  It happened to Ben Smith on March 22, 2007.  That morning, Smith, then a crack reporter and blogger at Politico, got a dynamite tip: John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, would be announcing the suspension …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Frontline makes the documentary interactive with 'David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal'  —  From stories on voter targeting to car design, the PBS program Frontline has been actively exploring innovative ways to bring its content to online audiences.  Its latest project …
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket  —  While most of the punditocracy was chattering earlier this month about Mitt Romney's “gifts” gaffe, another Republican took an unexpectedly bold stand about a huge and controversial special-interest handout that largely benefits Democratic constituencies.
Discussion: Dynamist
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Atlantic Media Tries Turning Twitter Into a Bigger Ad Platform  —  140 Proof System Gathers Audience From Atlantic Followers and Others  —  Atlantic Media is taking publishers' latest stab at making social media good for something besides gaining traffic.  —  The company …
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian's N0tice platform gets a live-music mapping tool, showing fans' tweets and Instagram snaps  —  N0tice is one of the Guardian's testbed projects, which we've previously noted has real potential to take news reporting, and news gathering, in new directions.
 
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Discussion: Gawker and @mathewi