Mediagazer: TechCrunch to fold CrunchGear, MobileCrunch into its main domain (Courtney Boyd Myers/The Next Web)

2:45 AM ET, July 9, 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 …

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Catastrophic ‘News of the World’: Some salvage jobs are impossible, even for Rupert Murdoch — News of the sudden closure of Rupert Murdoch's most successful British paper, the Sunday tabloid News of the World, has riveted the upper end of British and American media alike.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Poynter, New York Times and Guardian

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 and Globe and Mail

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

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

Telegraph:
News of the World to close: Andy Coulson arrested at police station

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

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

Discussion: Adweek, paidContent:UK, The Huffington Post, Reuters, AdAge, Guardian, The Independent, MarketBeat, Guardian, paidContent and New York Times

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

Discussion: NevilleHobson.com and AllThingsD

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

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

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, rbr.com, Media Decoder, The Wrap, The Corsair, On Media's Blog, Mediaite, TVWeek.com, 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: NewscastStudio Blog, Future of Journalism and Jen Lee Reeves

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.

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

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, mediabistro.com and The New York Observer

Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

TechCrunch to fold CrunchGear, MobileCrunch into its main domain — TechCrunch's Mike Arrington just announced that his technology blog will be rolling out significant enhancements to the site next week including a new design, new logo and new content from its sister sites CrunchGear …

Discussion: TechCrunch and CrunchGear, more at Techmeme »

Joy Mayer / rjionline.org:

Highlights from the 2011 journalists engagement survey — While editors at U.S. daily newspapers overwhelmingly say they think audience engagement has become an important part of practicing journalism, they're often not sure what that means or how to go about it.

Discussion: Poynter

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 …

Discussion: Philly.com