Mediagazer: Why USA Today's Declines Led to Radical Restructuring (Rick Edmonds/The Biz Blog)

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: Press Gazette, BBC, The Independent, Financial Times, Jon Slattery, Editors Weblog, The Staggers, The Dispatch Box, Daily Mail, Bagehot's notebook, Independent.ie, Reuters and Liberal Conspiracy

New York Times:

In Britain, Labour Politicians Call for New Look at Scandal — LONDON — Senior opposition politicians are calling on the government to respond to renewed accusations that Downing Street's chief communications officer, Andy Coulson, encouraged reporters to illegally intercept messages …

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Liberal Conspiracy and The Staggers

Jack Shafer / Slate:
Team Murdoch on Ethics

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast, Gawker and The Independent

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.

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

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

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mediaite

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, Gawker and Advocate, more at Techmeme »

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.

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

Felix Salmon:

When short sellers fund journalists — I'm as much of a fan of insidery media navel-gazing as anybody, but Cary Spivak and the AJR have gone way too far with their 3,200-word thumbsucker on the ethics of funding investigative journalism with the proceeds from short-selling.

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Apple Faces Many Rivals for Streaming to TVs — SAN FRANCISCO — When Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple's first iPod in 2001, it held more music and was easier to use than the handful of rival products already in the market. But it had a big shortcoming: it worked only with Macintosh computers …

Paola Totaro / Sydney Morning Herald:

To catch a cheat: behind the scenes of ‘gotcha’ journalism — But the tabloid is facing serious allegations of its own, writes Paola Totaro in London. — The sensational investigation by the News of the World into the Pakistani match-fixing scandal in London began in Sydney nine months ago …