Mediagazer: The $131M Ford Rollover Death Verdict That Twitter Broke (Adam Penenberg/Fast Company)

MPs seek fresh inquiry into NoW phone hacking — • Calls for parliament to order second inquiry into hacking — • Scotland Yard to examine allegations by former NoW reporter — News International and David Cameron's PR chief, Andy Coulson, face the prospect of a fresh parliamentary inquiry …

Discussion: Jon Slattery, New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, The Dispatch Box, The Independent, Liberal Conspiracy, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Bagehot's notebook, Reuters and Independent.ie

Team Murdoch on Ethics — Let's review the recent ethical conduct of Rupert Murdoch's London tabloid, News of World. — In 2007, News of the World reporter Clive Goodman, and a private investigator who worked with him, Glenn Mulcaire, went to jail for hacking the phone mail of aides to the royal family.

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast, BBC College of Journalism Blog and Gawker

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

New York Observer to Cast Its Net Beyond the Upper East Side — Listening to Kyle Pope, the editor of The New York Observer, discuss how he wants to re-energize his newspaper sounds a lot like someone describing a Broadway show or a television series that has run a little past its prime.

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

Rollover Minutes: How Adam Penenberg Has Legitimised New, New, New Journalism. Again. — Adam Penenberg. If you call yourself an online journalist, and yet that name doesn't immediately prompt a nod of recognition - a smile, even - then it's time to close your laptop and bow your head in shame.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:

The $131M Ford Rollover Death Verdict That Twitter Broke — Fast Company's Adam L. Penenberg tweets the breaking news about a verdict against Ford in the death of rising Mets star Brian Cole. As reporters lagged behind on the story, Penenberg discovered a new media use for the 140-character format.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Frances Martel / Mediaite: When Journalists Bury The Lede, Is Twitter The New Way To Dig It Back Up?

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

In an Age of Voices, Moving Beyond the Facts — WHAT some call opinion, others call interpretive journalism — a label as opaque as the practice. Call it what you will, nothing has generated more reader indignation in the past few weeks than when it has appeared on a news page.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Kirk LaPointe's …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The newswire quandary — Questions: should newswire agencies serve consumers - directly? And, to a broader extent, how does the current information shift impact the agencies' future? Two recent events lead me to explore these questions in today's Monday Note.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online — In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing …

Discussion: College Media Matters

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Regulating sex and speech — Let me start with a disclosure: I hope to think that Craig Newmark is a friend. He can be as hard for me to read as James Joyce or C++. But I know him as a decent and genuine man who believes that he is bringing a service to millions of people …

Discussion: CNN, New York Times and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation — If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works - the sausage making - to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is.

Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Kanye West and How Twitter Has Changed the Way We Communicate — If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West. — Just a few hours ago, the superstar rapper let loose a barrage of 70+ tweets …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Speakeasy, Mediaite, PopEater and TechCrunch

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Why USA Today's Declines Led to Radical Restructuring — When Gannett's USA Today announced 10 new executive appointments and a “pretty radical” restructuring August 27, the company left plenty of questions unanswered. — What exactly are these new “content rings,” which eventually …

Discussion: Leadership