Mediagazer: Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench (Gabriel Sherman/New York Magazine)

11:35 AM ET, December 5, 2012

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R. Umar Abbasi / New York Post:

Anguished fotog: Critics are unfair to condemn me — I was on an assignment, waiting for a train at the 49th Street subway platform, when I suddenly heard people gasping. The announcement had come over the loudspeaker that the train was coming — and out of the periphery of my eye …

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David Carr / Media Decoder:

Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover — “It all happened so fast.” — That's what R. Umar Abbasi, a freelance photographer for The New York Post, said of the fatal subway incident on Monday that he caught with his camera. One man threw another into harm's way, causing him to be run over by an oncoming train.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism?

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Tom McGeveran / The New Republic:
The New York Post Was Tasteless. That's the Point.

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ but calls changes ‘really confusing’ to users — Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom just took the stage at the LeWeb conference and is speaking directly to this morning's controversial change that removed Twitter card support.

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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Instagram cuts off Twitter cards integration, further souring relationship — Twitter and Instagram have been straying further apart from each other ever since the latter was acquired by Facebook, and now it looks like competition is getting into play more than ever.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench — The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network's brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox …

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Erik Wemple:
Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy

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Rachel Pannett / Wall Street Journal:

Elisabeth Murdoch, Mother of News Corp. Chief, Dies at 103 — Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp . Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and one of Australia's most generous philanthropists, died Wednesday at age 103. — She had suffered a fall in September at her home southeast of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Newspaper editors sign up to Leveson recommendations — Bosses of every significant Fleet Street paper back 40 out of 47 measures, but not proposals for statutory intervention — National newspaper editors signed up to implement all Lord Justice Leveson's non-statutory recommendations …

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Nick Allen / Telegraph: Wikipedia, the 25-year-old student and the prank that fooled Leveson

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Why BuzzFeed Still Doesn't Cover Business News — Took Pitches From Business Journalists Earlier This Year — “The goal is to build the next great news organization.” — That's BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith reflecting this week on his first year at the social-news publisher and the future he sees for it.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why does the paywall debate always have to become a religious war? — If there's one topic that is guaranteed to turn a roomful of mild-mannered journalists into a snarling mass of teeth and fur, it is the question of paywalls — specifically, the increasing number of paywalls that are being erected …

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Erik Maza / WWD:

Ambassador Anna Wintour? — with contributions from Samantha Conti, Evan Clark, Lisa Lockwood — Wondering what Anna Wintour wants has become a cottage industry of its own. Does she want to be a diplomat? A theatrical impresario? A grand dame? Have a broader corporate editorial role?

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Hachette enters into new ebook contracts with retailers post-DOJ settlement — Hachette's new contracts with ebook retailers following the publisher's September settlement with the Department of Justice are now place. As of Tuesday, Amazon had begun discounting some Hachette ebooks slightly …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Verizon CEO: Redbox Streaming Video Venture Launch Pushed Back to Early 2013 — He says Redbox Instant by Verizon, which will compete with Netflix, will be available by early in the second quarter, after previous estimates for a late 2012 start. — Verizon and Redbox will bring …

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Los Angeles Times:

Netflix takes Disney pay-TV rights from Starz — Netflix in 2016 will feature recently released movies from Walt Disney Studios. (Netflix) — Netflix has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios films, beginning in 2016, in a three-year deal that catapults …

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Brad Reed / BGR:
Netflix signs deal with Disney to deliver movies to your living room while they're still in theatres

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Pandora Beats, Q3 2013 Revenue Up 60% To $120M, Net Income Of $2.1M; Q4 Forecast Much Lower Than Expected — Internet radio service Pandora released its financial results for the Q3 2013, ending October 31 2012. Revenue is up 60 percent compared to Q3 2012 to $120 million.

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