Mediagazer: MPs seek fresh inquiry into NoW phone hacking (Guardian)

6:05 PM ET, September 6, 2010

Top News:

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: BBC, Media Week, Newser, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, The Independent, The Dispatch Box, Editors Weblog, Independent.ie, Daily Mail, The Staggers, Reuters, Financial Times, Jon Slattery, Bagehot's notebook 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, BBC, Inforrm's Blog, Liberal Conspiracy, Telegraph, The Daily Beast and The Staggers

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: ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead and Fast Company

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: Editors Weblog, The Huffington Post, Kirk LaPointe's … and College Media Matters

David Carr / New York Times:

The Glut of Shows Unwatched — The great thing about modern technology is that you never have to miss anything on television. That's also the terrible thing about it. — Last Sunday, I was traveling and did not see “Mad Men.” As someone who cares about being in the know …

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Wetpaint Goes Pro With 15 New Sites On TV Shows — Wetpaint, which is best known for its user-generated fan sites, is making a big move into more premium content, with the launch of 15 new, professionally-produced sites dedicated to TV shows like Glee and Dancing With The Stars.

Discussion: TechCrunch

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.

Discussion: New York Observer

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

UK libel rules: Change the goddam law — Rupert Murdoch's biographer on the hefty legal challenges he faced when his book encountered British lawyers — One of the most confounding experiences a British visitor might have in the US is getting seriously sick without health insurance.

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: Change The Ratio, SocialTimes.com and SmoothSpan Blog

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Web Series Nigel and Victoria Successfully Shills Philips Products — By no means is Philips the first company to turn to web video as a means for spreading their brand — but the “online sitcom” Nigel and Victoria, launching internationally today, does bring a big burst of meta with it.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

FT Launching Seventh Niche Paid Site To Reduce Advertising Reliance — The Financial Times is increasingly launching specialist spin-off sites targeted at niche audiences of financial professionals. — The latest is SchemeXpert.com, a news and analysis site covering the pensions sector.

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 …