Mediagazer: What damage could Rebekah Brooks do to News Corp? (Felix Salmon)

10:20 AM ET, July 10, 2011

Top News:

For Years, the Tabloids' Sting Kept British Politicians in Line — LONDON — In 2004, Clare Short, a Labour member of Parliament, learned what could happen to British politicians who criticized the country's unforgiving tabloids. At a lunch in Westminster, Ms. Short mentioned in passing …

Felix Salmon:

What damage could Rebekah Brooks do to News Corp? — The implosion of the News of the World, and of News Corp's bluster surrounding hacking and bribery allegations, comes less than a week after the Bribery Act of 2010 finally became law in the UK. The Bribery Act had an unbelievably long gestation …

Discussion: BBC, BBC, On Media's Blog, Guardian and CJR

News of the World:

We recorded history and we've made history — “IT is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose and open the News of the World.”

Discussion: Charles Apple, FleetStreetBlues, Gawker and BBC

Telegraph:

James Murdoch ‘could face prosecution’ over his role in phone hacking scandal — James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, could be prosecuted over the telephone hacking scandal, a former home secretary said yesterday. — David Cameron also piled the pressure on Mr Murdoch …

Discussion: Guardian, The Business Insider, Future of Journalism and The Huffington Post

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

Another Digital Twist to the NWS Drama: A Tell-All Blog By Ex-NOTW Journos — News International is taking down its online paywall for the last edition of The News of the World on Sunday, July 10. But the scandal-ridden newspaper might just get scooped by one of its own.

Discussion: Guardian, Future of Journalism, The Next Web and sans serif

Associated Press:

Murdoch backs UK news operation CEO amid scandal … SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Rupert Murdoch has expressed his full support for the head of his U.K. newspaper division amid continuing fallout from an expanding phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.

Discussion: @cassvinograd

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: Press Gazette, Guardian, Jon Slattery, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Poynter and Guardian

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

Clay Shirky:

Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic — The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers. * This might just be a matter of transitioning from print …

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter Curation Grows Up: Storify Becomes Blog & SEO Friendly — Thirteen years ago this spring, Dave Winer's UserLand Software launched a technical protocol that made it easy to publish content from one Web page onto another. (Winer was the inspiration for ReadWriteWeb and countless other blogs.)

Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week — The Twitterverse was in a flurry this week, as early adopters and tech enthusiasts excitedly dissected Google's brand new social network, Google+. — According to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, SocialTimes.com and L.A. Times Tech Blog, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Thomson Reuters employees OK new contract — Romenesko Misc. — The three-year contract, which passed 252 to 68, includes a guaranteed 1.5 percent increase in each of its three years. The company had previously insisted that most or all raises be awarded solely at its discretion.

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