Mediagazer: Back to the future: Is media returning to the 19th century? (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

3:25 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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, Poynter, Brand Republic, Telegraph, Guardian, TVWeek.com, Capital New York, Mixed Media, CJR, Adweek, The Atlantic Online, AdAge, The Wire, Journalism.co.uk, Gawker, ProPublica, BBC, msnbc.com, Rich Sutcliffe's Blog, FT Alphaville, BBC, The First Post, MediaShift and Economist

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, Associated Press and Reuters

Ken Auletta / News Desk:

What Murdoch Made — During the first full day of the Allen & Co. Conference in Sun Valley, Rupert Murdoch was almost invisible. He was not spotted at the morning panels or at the outdoor lunch where he usually arrives early and holds court. Presumably, he was holed up strategizing …

Discussion: Guardian, Poynter, New York Times, Bloomberg, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Editors Weblog, Slate, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Mixed Media

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.

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

At the Paper: Shock, Anger and a Retreat to the Pub — LONDON — Thursday afternoon, when the News Corporation executive Rebekah Brooks walked on to the floor of the News of the World newsroom and began speaking, many of the paper's 200 or so employees thought she would be announcing …

Discussion: BBC, The New York Observer, Guardian, bookforum.com, Future of Journalism, The Independent and News of the World

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

Discussion: Adweek, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Guardian and CJR

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

Discussion: AllThingsD and NevilleHobson.com

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

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

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

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

Felix Salmon:
Brand and crisis management, Murdoch style

Discussion: New York Times, FishbowlNY, paidContent and brandrepublic.com

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

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, Guardian and MarketBeat

Alison Frankel / MediaFile:
Is Murdoch free to destroy tabloid's records?

Discussion: Mediaite, National Review, News Desk, David Allen Green, Guardian, Crikey, New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared and Reuters

Emma Hall / AdAge:
News Corp. Closes News of the World as Scandal Threatens BSkyB Deal

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Online Journalism Blog, Guardian, Company Town, Globe and Mail, Magforum, CNNMoney.com and Future of Journalism

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

Economist:

Back to the coffee house — The internet is taking the news industry back to the conversational culture of the era before mass media — THREE hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets, newsletters and broadsides.

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

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: rbr.com, The Wrap, TVGuide.com, Mediaite, The Corsair, New York Magazine, The Wire, National Review, GalleyCat 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: NewscastStudio Blog, Jen Lee Reeves, GalleyCat, Forbes.com and Lost Remote

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: Editors Weblog

Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:

Court tosses FCC's relaxed media 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.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, New York Times, paidContent, CNET News, Bloomberg and 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, paidContent and Editors Weblog

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Radhika Jones promoted to Time executive editor — Romenesko Misc. — Radhika Jones joined Time from Paris Review three years ago today. As an assistant managing editor, she edited the last two TIME 100 issues and the Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year” issue.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Newsmotion wants to bring artistry and the wealth of networks to the coverage of international news — Some of the biggest challenges international news reporting faces have to do with time: the moment versus the long run. How, on the one hand, do you capture news items in real-time …

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.