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6:50 AM ET, November 19, 2011

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What happens when journalism is everywhere?  —  When the Arab Spring demonstrations were under way in Egypt's Tahrir Square and reports were streaming out through Twitter and Facebook and text messages and cellphone videos, it was easy to feel superior to the Egyptian government.
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Elizabeth Spiers / The New York Observer:
Notes on the NYPD Press Credentialing Process, from the (Ineligible) Editor-in-Chief of the New York Observer  —  In a note responding to an earlier post from TheAwl detailing the various media organization associations of 26 reporters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests …
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Ed Rollins To Join Fox News  —  Veteran GOP political consultant Ed Rollins is joining Fox News as a political contributor, the Daily News has learned.  —  Fox confirmed the hire to our Alison Gendar, but declined to release the dollar amount or terms of the contract.
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Dan Hirschhorn / AdAge:
Fox News Eyes Bigger Ad Haul in This Election Season
John Koblin / WWD:
Tough Times at Newsweek  —  Photo By Jonathon Ziegler/Patrickmcmullan.Com … On Nov. 7, a memo was handed out to Newsweek reporters and editors.  The note detailed a new process in how to pitch stories.  —  “Stories are generated in a variety of ways, from chance conversations with Tina or other senior editors...” the memo began.
Steve Smith / MediaPost:
“FT” Web App Delivers 1 Million Users  —  ‘FT’ Web App Delivers 1 Million Users 2 hours ago  —  The Financial Times' big bet against Apple's in-app subscription model has paid off, to the tune of 1 million users served since its June launch.  FT pulled its native iOS app from the Apple App Store shortly …
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Iger Says No Hurry to Replace Regis Philbin  —  Now that Regis Philbin has completed his long run on his ABC morning show, attention will naturally focus on who might replace him alongside Kelly Ripa.  But Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC …
Discussion: TVNewser and TVWeek.com
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Rumors Are True.  I Am Leaving TechCrunch.  —  This won't come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I am leaving TechCrunch.  —  My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington's ouster two months ago, but it wasn't an easy decision for me.
Meg James / Company Town:
Key NBC executive Marc Graboff to leave the network  —  Marc Graboff, president of NBC's West Coast business operations and the TV network's longtime consigliere, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the situation.  —  The move was not a complete surprise …
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch Sells $62 Million in News Corp. Shares  —  News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch sold nonvoting shares in News Corp worth $61.7 million this week, according to a securities filing late Friday.  —  The sale, of about 3.6 million shares, represents about 1.1% …
Discussion: Financial Times and Bloomberg
Rob Davis / Voice of San Diego:
Erik Wemple:
AP gets steamed at Huffington Post, sources say  —  How irked was the Associated Press over the following tweet from Huffington Post social media guru Mandy Jenkins? … Well, irked enough that the AP's social media leader, Lou Ferrara, said this to the Erik Wemple Blog earlier this week:
Discussion: Mediaite
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Dennis' The Week Launches iPad App, New Web Site  —  Dennis has relaunched the website for its weekly printed news digest The Week after buying The First Post website to power its rolling daily news ambitions.  But, for its new iPad app, The Week is preferring weekly content.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Jon Stewart: Media can't pick a GOP frontrunner  —  On Thursday night's show, Jon Stewart relived the coverage cycle of the GOP presidential race, pointing out that Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain received the same surge-slump story treatment that Newt Gingrich — now surging again — received.
 
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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs
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Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
The unexpected impact of Facebook's “seamless sharing” on newspaper sites
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Discussion: Folio, Future of Journalism and Poynter
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Meg James / Company Town:
CBS' Moonves: Political rancor boosts broadcast TV business
Discussion: TVNewser and Media Decoder
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Media treat presidential campaigns like a game show
Discussion: Roll Call
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
11% Of Magazine Exposures Are Digital-Only, Survey Shows
Discussion: Folio and The FJP
 

 
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Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”

Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account

 
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