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GOP Candidate Cain Cancels Dinner With NYC Media Elite (NY1.com)
As word comes that Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain is "reassessing" his campaign, he has abruptly canceled a private dinner with New York's media elite planned for this Sunday. FishbowlDC: Wednesday morning TV guidance: ABC Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos will interview the now-infamous Ginger White, the woman who claims she had a 13-year consensual affair with Cain. TVSpy: Shortly after rival station WAGA aired a big-time exclusive interview with White Monday evening, WSB caught up with White outside of her apartment. HuffPost: The ladies of The View approached the news in their typically outspoken fashion. Of all the hosts, Whoopi Goldberg was the most creative in discussing the issue, by using bleep-worthy language and singing Motown. AllFacebook: Facebook users are discussing whether Cain should withdraw from the presidential primary now that a fifth woman has come forward alleging an affair with him. FishbowlDC: Here's a look at some of the selections used to illustrate Monday night's news that Cain allegedly had a 13-year extramarital affair with White.

First-Quarter Furloughs Just Announced; Unpaid Time Off Will Be Fifth Big Round Since '09 (Gannett Blog)
As expected, Gannett just announced another round of unpaid first-quarter furloughs for most of its employees, the fifth such round imposed on the work force over the past three years.

Cable Networks Cover Conrad Murray Sentencing (TVNewser)
Shortly after 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the 2009 death of Michael Jackson. HLN, which has seen ratings success with its Murray trial coverage, was the first cable network to go to the sentencing, at 12:14 p.m. Fox News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC all went to the trial just before the sentence was read, at 12:30 p.m., and stayed with it until just before 1 p.m. CNN International also simulcast CNN coverage of the sentencing.

Journalists Give Explosive Testimony At Phone-Hacking Inquiry (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
A pair of central figures in the News of the World phone-hacking case -- Nick Davies and Paul McMullan -- gave some explosive testimony Tuesday in the ongoing U.K. inquiry into alleged spying activities at the late British tabloid's parent company, News International, and at other newspapers. NYT: After McMullan, a former deputy features editor at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid, had finished his jaw-droppingly brazen remarks at a judicial inquiry Tuesday, it was hard to think of any dubious news-gathering technique he had not confessed to, short of pistol-whipping sources for information.

Condé Nast Finds A Spot For Wagenheim As New Teen Vogue Publisher (AdAge / MediaWorks)
Condé Nast is creating an opening for Jason Wagenheim atop Teen Vogue, according to people familiar with the situation, resolving a situation created when it abandoned a brief effort to have him lead Glamour. NY Post: There will be no "January surprise" at Condé Nast in 2012 -- at least not one that was initiated at the whim of chairman Si Newhouse Jr.

Former CBS Evening News Producer Dick Meyer Tapped To Lead BBC News, America (TVNewser)
The BBC has tapped former CBS News producer and executive Dick Meyer as its executive producer of BBC News, America. Meyer was most recently executive editor of NPR, and before that led CBSNews.com. He was also a producer for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. B&C: He replaces Rome Hartman, who left to join NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams as executive producer.

Ex-Al Jazeera Chief: Governments Were 'Scared' Of Us During Uprising In Egypt (Yahoo! News / The Cutline)
Wadah Khanfar, former top executive of Al Jazeera, told editors at a conference in Hong Kong Tuesday that during the uprising in Egypt earlier this year, other governments in the Arab world were "scared" that the network's coverage of the revolution was "[training] people in their countries how to revolt."

40 Most Viral Articles On Facebook During 2011 (AllFacebook)
We've still got another month left of 2011 and already Facebook has supplied a list of the 40 articles shared the most on the site this year. Inside Facebook: Facebook has posted a Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011 page that links more often to parenting-related topics, human-interest pieces, and odd trivia stories than it does to the major news stories of the year. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: The New York Times owns the top spot with "Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami," which was shared roughly 600,000 times on Facebook. The second-most shared article, CNN's "What teachers really want to tell parents," was shared 585,908 times. TechCrunch: Articles about natural disasters and parenting advice from CNN, Yahoo! News, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post topped Facebook's new list of the most shared articles in the United States for 2011. AllFacebook: Yahoo! News, The Washington Post, The Independent, and The Guardian have amassed millions of readers for social editions of the publications that launched in September.

Time Warner Cable Comes To Android Tablet, Without Live TV Streaming (Multichannel News)
Time Warner Cable debuted a free app for tablets running Google's Android operating system to let subscribers program their DVRs and check TV listings -- but for now, it doesn't provide access to live TV channels, a service that some programmers have objected to. CNET: Verizon's live-television offering for Xbox Live is coming next month.

Fire Alarm Interrupts NBC Nightly News (TVNewser)
It was an eventful night at 30 Rock, where apparently there are still some kinks in the new Nightly News facilities. A fire alarm went off in the studio a few seconds into the live 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT broadcast and continued throughout the entire show. HuffPost: Williams didn't flinch, even for a second. The anchor simply finished his statement, alerted viewers to the situation, and kept talking.

Ann Curry To Interview VP Joe Biden In Iraq (TVNewser)
NBC Today anchor Ann Curry is currently in Iraq, where she will interview Vice President Joe Biden.

Politico Hires Globe Reporter To Pick Up The Slack (FishbowlDC)
Politico has hired the Boston Globe's Donovan Slack to be a senior reporter on its 44 page, which chronicles President Barack Obama.

Moody's Warns Station Groups Of Revenue 'Threat' From Reverse Comp (B&C)
Coughing up the reverse compensation will put station groups in an increasingly tight spot, according to a new report from Moody's. Increasing network payments dampens the local broadcasters' cash flow, and will force them to put more pressure on subscription-TV operators to grow the retrans pie.

Spot.us Merges With The Public Insight Network (10,000 Words)
Crowd-funded reporting organization Spot.us announced that it has been acquired by American Public Media's Public Insight Network. FishbowlLA: Day-to-day operations of Spot.us will now be overseen by PIN's Joaquin Alvarado. MediaJobsDaily: After three years of crowd-funding freelance journalists' pitches to cover everything from corruption to crime to the environment, Spot.Us has been acquired.

Facebook Settles Federal Trade Commission Charges That It Tricked Users on Privacy Settings (Inside Facebook)
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Facebook Tuesday morning over charges that the social network deceived users by failing to honor privacy agreements. AllFacebook: FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz said in a statement that the settlement of an eight-count complaint requires Facebook to warn users about privacy changes and to get their permission before sharing their information more broadly. TechCrunch: In a blog post regarding Tuesday's FTC settlement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also announced that the company has officially split the chief privacy officer role into two parts, to be filled by existing Facebook employees Erin Egan and Michael Richter. CNET: In reality, the agreement is likely to have little, if any, actual impact on Facebook users. TechCrunch: You know what Zuck (and around 400 Facebook employees, including PR rep Caryn Marooney) do take lightly, according to this comment thread on a Facebook internal network? The fact that the FTC ironically asks readers to "like" them on Facebook at the bottom of the release statement outlining Tuesday's Facebook settlement.