Mediagazer: Gawker was ‘hacked six months ago’ (Charles Arthur/Guardian)

3:45 PM ET, December 29, 2010

Top News:

Memo Pad: iPad Magazine Sales Drop — Remember when Wired's debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available …

/ Choire Sicha:
Magazines Are At War With Their Own iPad Apps

Discussion: New York Observer and The Next Web

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Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs — Editor's note: This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site's WikiLeaks coverage. — The Case for Privacy

Discussion: The Nation, Scripting News, Firedoglake, mediabistro.com, p2pnet, TechEye, GMSV, Boing Boing and WL Central, more at Techmeme »

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs — Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo. I wrote about this topic twice — first back in June and then again last Sunday.

Discussion: p2pnet and Firedoglake

Glenn Greenwald / Salon: Response to Wired's accusations

Floyd Abrams / Wall Street Journal:

Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers — Everyone knows that Daniel Ellsberg leaked top-secret government documents about the Vietnam War. How many remember the ones he kept secret, or why? — In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg decided to make available to the New York Times …

Discussion: Poynter and On Media's Blog

the nytpicker:

NBC's Brian Williams Declares NYT's “Discovery” of Brooklyn As Media Story Of 2010. “It's Like Marrakesh,” He Says. — NBC News anchorman Brian Williams has declared the NYT's “discovery of Brooklyn” as the media story of 2010. — “There are young men and women wearing ironic glass frames on the streets …

Discussion: Gothamist

David Weigel / Weigel:

Judith Miller Joins Newsmax — The New York Times reporter who quit the paper in 2005 — a casualty of the Valerie Plame scandal and a target of attacks on her pre-war reporting about Iraq's weapons programs — has a job in print journalism again. She's a contributing writer at Newsmax …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Poynter, On Media's Blog, The Daily Caller and Wonkette

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Media iPad Apps — I know that year-end “best of” lists are everywhere this week and the next, but since I've been downloading and trying out almost every media-related iPad app I can get my hands on since the tablet was first released, I thought the end of 2010 …

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Gawker was ‘hacked six months ago’ — Server was cracked using ‘local file inclusion’ weakness and hacking group then worked through system to access passwords and source code, sources say … Hackers had access to the gossip site Gawker's content management system (CMS) …

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Amy Gahran / Knight Digital Media Center:

“Show me the document!” should be the newsroom rule — On Dec. 20, the FCC passed its Open Internet Order—a high-profile rulemaking that tackles the highly controversial issue of net neutrality. The day before this vote, I began researching my mobile blog post for CNN.com about the rule.

Kevin Ding / Lakers blog:

ESPNEWS plagiarizes my Lakers column — Hey, Will Selva of ESPNEWS. Glad you liked my last column so much. Try not to plagiarize it next time. — I got back to my hotel room late Tuesday night after the Lakers-Spurs game and turned on ESPNEWS' “Highlight Express” show.

Discussion: SPORTSbyBROOKS, Mediaite, The Wrap and Poynter

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Sinclair and Time Warner in Fight Over Fees — The new year seemingly can't come without a fight over the fees paid for television programming. — Last year there was an end-of-the-year dispute between Time Warner Cable and News Corporation. This year Time Warner Cable is fighting again …

Discussion: TVNewsCheck, Company Town, TVWeek.com, Free Press and Wall Street Journal

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Q: What Does Quora Mean For The Future Of Blogging? A: Business As Usual — As many of you have noticed, we (and by “we”, I mainly mean “me") have been using Quora a lot as a source of inspiration for story ideas. Some people seem to think this is a great idea.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »