Mediagazer: How to verify - and when to publish - news accounts posted on social media (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

8:10 PM ET, July 8, 2011

Top News:

Phone hacking: Police probe suspected deletion of emails by NI executive — • ‘Massive quantities’ of archive allegedly deleted — • Emails believed to be between News of the World editors — Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions …

Telegraph:

News of the World to close: Andy Coulson arrested at police station — Andy Coulson, the former communications chief for David Cameron, has been arrested by detectives investigating alleged phone hacking and illegal payments to police during his tenure as News of the World editor.

Discussion: BBC, Journalism.co.uk, ABCNEWS and Reuters

Guardian:

Message from Rebekah Brooks to all News International staff — News of the World closure: Email sent to staff in wake of phone-hacking scandal — Yesterday was a day of great sadness for the News of the World and I know all of you felt deep sympathy for colleagues.

Discussion: News Desk

Jacob Aron / New Scientist:
Voicemail hacking: How easy is it?

Discussion: AllThingsD and NevilleHobson.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
James Murdoch Takes Stage With Tabloid Closing

Discussion: Adweek, The Huffington Post, Reuters and Guardian

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
At the Paper: Shock, Anger and a Retreat to the Pub

Discussion: bookforum.com, The New York Observer, BBC, Guardian, Future of Journalism, Crikey and New York Magazine

Victoria Ward / Telegraph:
News of the World former royal editor Clive Goodman arrested

Discussion: Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette and Guardian

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
News Of The World's Closure Brings Abrupt End To One Murdoch Paywall

Discussion: Guardian, sans serif, The Next Web and mediabistro.com

Felix Salmon:
Brand and crisis management, Murdoch style

Discussion: New York Times, paidContent and FishbowlNY

Ken Auletta / News Desk:
What Murdoch Made — During the first full day of the Allen …

Discussion: Guardian, MinOnline, Poynter, Future of Journalism, New York Times, Press Gazette, Bloomberg, Editors Weblog, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, The Corsair, Slate and blogs.telegraph.co.uk

The Independent:
Jemima Khan: 'I'm a member of the hacked club'

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, AdAge, Guardian and MarketBeat

Economist:

Bulletins from the future — The internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan—as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media, says Tom Standage — EVEN IF YOU are not a news junkie, you will have noticed that your daily news has undergone a transformation.

Discussion: Poynter, MinOnline and Future of Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Back to the future: Is media returning to the 19th century? — In a series of articles looking at the evolution of media in a digital age, The Economist comes to the conclusion that new media — and in particular the explosion of blogs and other social media tools like Twitter and Facebook …

Discussion: Economist, Thanks:mathewi

Economist: Back to the coffee house — The internet is taking the news industry …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Harry Smith Leaving CBS News for NBC News — First on TVNewser: Harry Smith, who has been with CBS News for 25 years, is leaving the network, we've learned. In a note to the staff, obtained by TVNewser, CBS News president David Rhodes writes, “Harry Smith has been a fixture here at CBS News …

Discussion: Poynter, TVGuide.com, Media Decoder, rbr.com, On Media's Blog, The Wrap, TVWeek.com, Mediaite, The Corsair, New York Magazine and TVSpy

MediaShift:

KOMU-TV Puts Google+ Hangout Video Chat on the Air — As a reporter and anchor for KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, Mo., and the broadcast lab for the Missouri School of Journalism, I already chat with viewers via Facebook and Twitter on our “Livestream” behind-the-scenes webcam mounted on the news set.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, NewscastStudio Blog and Jen Lee Reeves

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Salon Founder Talbot Steps In Once Again As Interim CEO — Salon founder David Talbot is taking the CEO reins once again as CEO on an interim basis, according to an 8-K filing yesterday (via David Weir on Media). The return of Talbot, the one-time editor-in-chief and chairman has remained …

Discussion: The Wrap

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

WATCH: Why Frank Rich Left The New York Times — NEW YORK - Previously on The Backstory, Frank Rich spoke about this week's New York magazine cover story “Obama's Original Sin” and why he's been disappointed with the president over Wall Street accountability and gay marriage.

Economist:

Reinventing the newspaper — New business models are proliferating as news organisations search for novel sources of revenue — ON THE MORNING of September 3rd 1833 a new kind of newspaper went on sale on the streets of New York. With its mix of crime reports and human-interest stories …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Editors Weblog

New York Post:

AMI's secret OK! backer is Hudson News' Cohen — Ever since American Media and its financial backers emerged as the surprise acquirers of the US edition of OK!, speculation has swirled that AMI CEO David Pecker had found a secret new strategic partner to help him seal the deal.

Discussion: Adweek

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Big Soup: Anthony De Rosa on becoming Reuters social media editor and the ambient wire for news — It was a surprise that wasn't so surprising. When it was announced Anthony De Rosa would become social media editor for Reuters.com, it was hard to avoid thinking: Yeah, that makes sense.

Discussion: Cision and paidContent

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How to verify - and when to publish - news accounts posted on social media — A July 4 fireworks show in downtown Philadelphia was marred by a shooting that sent crowds scattering, according to hundreds of tweets sent that night. But when reporters at the Philadelphia Daily News followed up with police …

The ProPublica Nerd Blog:

Facebook for News Apps: How We Harnessed The Social Network for ‘The Opportunity Gap’ — Last week we published The Opportunity Gap, a news application that lets readers find out how equally their state provides poor and wealthier schools access to advanced classes that researchers say will help students later in life.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:

Court tosses FCC's relaxed ownership rule — A federal court rejected a rule change from the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday that would have made it easier for a single company to own both a newspaper and broadcast TV station in the same local market on technical grounds.