Mediagazer: Tom Mockridge's resignation email to News International staff (Guardian)

10:40 AM ET, December 3, 2012

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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 …

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George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp.'s Entertainment Business to Be Called Fox Group After Company Split — Dow Jones editor-in-chief Robert Thomson will become the CEO of the new publishing company, while Chase Carey's and James Murdoch's roles at Fox Group will remain unchanged. — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp …

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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 …

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Gerard Baker Named Wall Street Journal Editor; Robert Thomson CEO Of News Corp. Publishing Company — News Corp. made a dizzying series of high-level personnel changes on Monday, naming a new editor at the Wall Street Journal and officially making current editor Robert Thomson the CEO …

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:

The Daily Staffers To Meet At 11 AM, 6 PM To Discuss Details Of Closure — The Daily's editor in chief Jesse Angelo and publisher Greg Clayman will meet with staff today at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. to discuss details of the iPad-only newspaper's closure later this month.

Guardian:

BSkyB's Mike Darcey appointed News International chief — Tom Mockridge to be replaced by BSkyB's No 2 in part of a wide-ranging corporate announcement — BSkyB's No 2 is to become chief executive of News International, replacing Tom Mockridge who confirmed his resignation from running …

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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”. — The newspaper had a high profile launch in February 2011, but had apparently struggled to pay its way …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

2 major lessons from the demise of The Daily — The publisher of News Corp.'s The Daily said earlier this year that the iPad-only publication might need a few more years to be profitable. Today the company announced it won't get that chance. — Although it has been one of the most-popular …

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Jim Romenesko:

Why The Daily Failed — Trevor Butterworth, who wrote about tech and other matters for The Daily iPad publication, writes on his Facebook wall: … * The Daily to cease publication Dec. 15 (wsj.com)

Discussion: The Awl and Digits

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.

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

30 More Buyouts Coming to the New York Times — The New York Times, like the rest of the newspaper industry, went through a painful series of buyouts after the 2008 financial collapse exacerbated the already ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry. In 2009, they cut 100 positions.

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Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

The Heiress — On Saturday, July 2, 2011, a high-society traffic jam descended on the cobblestoned town square of Burford, a village sixty-eight miles northwest of London, not far from the market town of Chipping Norton. Hundreds of chauffeured cars approached a gated stone wall …

Discussion: Adweek, Guardian, Broadcasting & Cable and The New Yorker Blog

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Buzz Media Swaps Out CEO, Looks for More Money — Buzz Media, a pop culture Web publisher with dozens of sites, has a new CEO: President Stephen Hansen has taken the top spot, replacing Tyler Goldman, who moves up to executive chairman after six years. — The Los Angeles-based company …

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: TechCrunch, paidContent and Pocket Blog