The Media Equation: Despite Report of Her Firing, Nikki Finke Is Still Standing

Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood, feared in the industry for having the best gossip, was said by a longtime competitor to have been fired — a blog report that turned out to be false.

    

Shareholders Approve Plan to Split News Corp.

The vote was something of a foregone conclusion because the Murdoch family controls almost 40 percent of the voting shares.

    

Guardian Reaps Benefits From N.S.A. Scoop

Last week’s scoop by The Guardian about N.S.A. surveillance is a major coup for a news organization that established a beachhead in the United States less than two years ago.

    

Campaign Spotlight: ‘How’ Now, Time Warner Cable Media?

Time Warner Cable is starting a campaign to raise awareness of its Media unit and will use the theme “That’s how.”

    

Singapore Clamps Down on News Web Sites

Sites that attract at least 50,000 visitors a month are now required to obtain annual licenses and must remove any content considered objectionable by the government within 24 hours of notification.

    

Conservatives as Defenders of the Media

A Justice Department inquiry of a Fox News reporter has spurred outrage from some reliable critics of the press.

    

Media Decoder: Kelly Wallace to Return to CNN

Ms. Wallace will be a digital correspondent, working primarily for CNN.com and appearing regularly on television.

    

Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak

Glenn Greenwald, a blogger who opposes government surveillance and has supported whistle-blowers, has published a top-secret order on the monitoring of phone logs.

    

Turks Angry Over Dearth of Protest Coverage by Established Media

As protesters took to the streets across the nation, Turkish TV channels stuck to scheduled programming, and people turned to social media to find out what was going on.

    

Andy Coulson Denies Hacking Charges

The arraignment of Andy Coulson, a former spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron, came after other charges against former employees of Rupert Murdoch.

    

Martin Arnold, Former Journalist at New York Times, Dies at 84

Mr. Arnold was an editor for The New York Times Magazine, earned a George Polk Award for his reporting, explored municipal corruption and wrote a column about the publishing industry.

    

Bloomberg Begins Fund to Invest in Start-Ups

Bloomberg Beta is the first time that Bloomberg L.P. will reap profits from investments in some of the technology companies that its news operation covers.

    

Justice Department Defends Holder’s Testimony

House Republicans were told that the attorney general’s Congressional testimony was “accurate and consistent.”

    

Jordan Blocks Local Access to 300 News Web Sites

The sites were blocked inside the country under a law that was enacted in September as opposition to King Abdullah II grew more outspoken.

    

Media Decoder: Politico Expands Coverage Areas and Adds an Editor of Note

An editor who ruffled some feathers at The Washington Post will head the new territories.

    

Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News

The network experienced a ratings decline in the last two months, as viewers turned away from Washington and toward disaster coverage.

    

Don Oliver, NBC Correspondent, Dies at 76

Mr. Oliver covered major world events, like the conflicts in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, the Middle East peace talks in 1977 and the Civil War in El Salvador, for NBC News for more than 25 years.

    

DealBook: Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together

Suspicions that reporters were monitoring bank executives never amounted to much until an official at Goldman Sachs called his counterpart at JPMorgan.

    

Holder May Rein In Prosecutors on Leaks

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics at the Justice Department, has opened internal discussions over new limits on seeking information that could identify reporters’ sources.

    

Reuters Names New Head of News Operation

Andrew Rashbass, chief executive of The Economist Group, will become C.E.O of Reuters.