Mediagazer: Tom Mockridge email to News International staff: “New structure does not offer me a role I am comfortable with” (Josh Halliday/@joshhalliday)

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 …

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Josh Halliday / @joshhalliday:

Tom Mockridge email to News International staff: “New structure does not offer me a role I am comfortable with”

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.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Robert Thomson to head News Corp's demerged publishing arm — Wall Street Journal managing editor will take post as Tom Mockridge steps down from UK publishing business — Rupert Murdoch is expected to give further details this week of the top management and structure …

Discussion: Telegraph

David Carr / New York Times:

John Huey, Editor of Time Inc., Prepares to Leave — 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

Angela Phillips / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Leveson proposals would safeguard investigative journalism’ — Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths, University of London — Lord Justice Leveson delivering his report on Thursday (29 November) — With two journalists jailed and a string of others awaiting trial we already have a legal system that controls press misbehaviour.

Discussion: Guardian, Big News Network.com, New York Times and TechCrunch

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" …

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 …

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 …

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