Mediagazer: The newswire quandary — Questions: should newswire agencies serve consumers

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.

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 …

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.

Guardian:

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: Bagehot's notebook, Daily Mail, Reuters, BBC, Independent.ie and The Independent

Discussion: The Daily Beast and BBC College of Journalism Blog

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: TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb

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: New York Times, CNN and Gawker

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, TechCrunch, PopEater and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »

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

David Rothman / The Solomon Scandals:

TBD hyperlocal site's traffic pops up during hostage crisis at Discovery Channel's headquarters — TBD's new hyperlocal Web site for the D.C. area is no great shakes so far in the visitor count department, but it's too early to pass judgment. That's what I wrote last month.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary

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 …

Andrew Ferguson / Commentary:

PRESS MAN: Pundit (Declined) — Peter Beinart is one of those journalists, common in Washington, who is less interesting for what he says than for who he is, or who he wants to be thought to be. He's an exemplar, and when, this May, he published an essay in the New York Review of Books announcing that …