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3:05 PM ET, October 7, 2011

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James Robinson / Guardian:
News of the World phone-hacking settlement agreed by Kelly Hoppen  —  Interior designer accepts £60,000 plus costs from News Group Newspapers, as Ashley Cole joins list of compensation test cases  —  The interior designer Kelly Hoppen settled her phone-hacking claim against the publisher …
Discussion: Press Gazette
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Wapping's pseudo-union dog fails to bark as members face uncertain future  —  One dog at Wapping that has hardly barked since the phone hacking scandal broke is the in-house pseudo-union known as the News International Staff Association (Nisa).  —  It is, of course, a creature of News Int …
Discussion: Guardian
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
James Murdoch Must Leave News Corp. Board, Pension Body Says
Discussion: Digital Spy, Guardian and Guardian
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report ‘illegal activity’
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Steve Jobs and the continuing disruption of media  —  The products created by Apple and its iconic founder Steve Jobs have revolutionized a host of different industries in the past couple of decades, from personal computing to mobile telephony — but they have also had a substantial impact …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Steve Jobs stops the presses one last time
Discussion: Gawker, Poynter and Time
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Over 100 Newspaper Front Pages Around The World Mourn Steve Jobs [Gallery]
Discussion: Poynter
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Examiner.com editor: ‘Plagiarism is inexcusable and we try our best to guard against it’  —  Romenesko+ Misc.  —  Examiner.com vice president of editorial Travis Henry says he first learned about his contributors' plagiarism by reading yesterday's Romenesko+ post, “Examiner.com is caught ‘pulling a Daily Mail’.”
Discussion: Cops and Courts and Poynter
Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:
Netflix Strikes Multi-Year Licensing Deal with AMC  —  Prior seasons of ‘The Walking Dead’ available Friday; also acquires rights to shows from AMC, IFC, Sundance, WE tv  —  Netflix and AMC Networks announced a multi-year licensing agreement in which prior seasons of AMC's The Walking Dead …
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Disney CEO Bob Iger Inks New Contract, But Will Step Down in 2015  —  The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, ABC News and ESPN, among numerous other media properties, has unveiled an unusual succession plan for CEO Bob Iger.  Under the deal, Iger will step down as CEO in 2015 …
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Wall Street protests: liberal cable's tea party moment?  —  The two cable networks battling each other for the liberal mantle finally have a movement they can embrace with the kind of fervor Fox News reserved for the tea party:  —  Occupy Wall Street.  —  After more than two weeks …
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Denton pays debt on Gawker pageviews, makes new bet with Sorgatz  —  Just after settling a bet with Rex Sorgatz because the Gawker network fell 10 million page views short of their agreed-upon target, Nick Denton agreed to another bet — this time for 40 percent year-to-year growth.  Sorgatz explains:
Discussion: Fimoculous and Felix
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Interim CEO in Internal Meeting: “Time Is a Constraint” (Also, Blame the Media!)  —  Today, in an internal meeting of its VP-level execs, Yahoo's interim CEO Tim Morse said of the Silicon Valley Internet giant's strategic review that “we know time is a constraint and we are mindful we have to go quickly.”
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
New York Times Rises Most in Two Years After Carlos Slim Boosts Stake  —  New York Times Co. (NYT) climbed the most in almost two years in New York trading after Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim boosted his stake in the company.  —  The newspaper publisher rose 76 cents, or 13 percent …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How long can AOL stay committed to Patch?  —  Even before AOL's future started to look dodgy — with speculation about the future of CEO Tim Armstrong ramping up, as the company's financial underperformance continues — the rollout of the Patch.com hyperlocal news project seemed exceptionally ambitious.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Poynter and Forbes
 
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Bloomberg TV plays politics
Discussion: Inside Cable News
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Using A Familiar Model, ‘GMA’ Narrows Ratings Gap With ‘Today’
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Nicola Kean / Portfolio:
Content Still King For Media Industry
Ty McMahan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Data And Storytelling Come Together At Advertising Week
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What happens to books when the Kindle is free?
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Measuring The Facebook Effect: Are Content Services Gaining From New Apps?
Discussion: MediaPost
John Koblin / WWD:
Michael Wolff to Stay at AdWeek
Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle:
New Initiative Aims to Preserve Independent Public Television Stations Now On the Endangered List
Susan Currie Sivek / MediaShift:
Once Magazine Takes the Photo Magazine into the App World
Discussion: SivekMedia.com and eMedia Vitals
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Reasons ABC Tied Up With Yahoo: Facebook, Twitter
Discussion: The Corsair, Thanks:jaredbkeller
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Morris Communications merges print and online divisions during digital-first transition