Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:55 PM ET, July 12, 2011

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s Lost $7B Shows Investor Concern  —  News Corp. (NWSA)'s loss of $7 billion in market value over four trading days shows investor concerns that a probe into alleged phone hacking by journalists at one London newspaper could have a broader impact on the company.
RELATED:
David Cay Johnston / Reuters:
RPT-COLUMN-It pays to be Murdoch.  Just ask US gov't: DCJohnston  —  David Cay Johnston is a Reuters columnist.  The opinions expressed here are his own.  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch may not garner as much attention for his financial savvy as he does for his journalistic escapades …
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB bid is slipping with David Cameron's U-turn  —  The PM's remarkable decision to follow Ed Miliband's opposition day motion could signal sea change for Murdoch's UK plans  —  It has taken David Cameron to do what Jeremy Hunt couldn't or wouldn't.
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
In Defense of Murdoch  —  NEW YORK — Fair warning: This column is a defense of Rupert Murdoch.  If you add everything up, he's been good for newspapers over the past several decades, keeping them alive and vigorous and noisy and relevant.  Without him, the British newspaper industry might have disappeared entirely.
Discussion: Media Research Center and Mediaite
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
WSJ Ex-Editor on Scandal: News Corp. ‘Incompetent or Complicit’ (Exclusive)
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
HuffPo Fires Writer for Doing ‘What We Were Taught and Told to Do’  —  The Huffington Post indefinitely suspended a young blogger today for rewriting too much of someone's news article.  This is pretty ridiculous, given HuffPo's systematic, officially-sanctioned approach to rewriting too much of people's news articles.
RELATED:
Yahoo! News:
HuffPo controversy highlights cavalier online editorial culture  —  What began presumably as an innocent post by a cub reporter has ballooned into one of this week's media controversies.  Here's the basic time line of events: A young and green Huffington Post journalist named Amy Lee borrowed quite liberally …
Aaron Gell / The New York Observer:
Bin Laden Hunter ‘CIA John’ Identified  —  The Man in the Yellow Tie, with Clinton and Panetta, and in a college yearbook photo.  —  Anyone who's ever logged in to a social network while in a jubilant, possibly intoxicated, frame of mind knows the dangers.
RELATED:
Jana Winter / Fox News:
Gawker Tries to Reveal Identity of CIA Agent Behind Bin Laden Kill
Discussion: The Wire
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Journalism students must bridge 'digital divide 2.0′ to become less old-school  —  Assistant professors Alexa Capeloto and Devin Harner say young journalism students “know how to act the part of digital natives,” but “they're inclined to see the Internet as a tool for entertainment and socializing …
Discussion: USA Today and MediaShift
Guardian:
Johann Hari suspended from the Independent following plagiarism row  —  Interviewer and columnist has been suspended for two months pending outcome of internal investigation  —  Johann Hari, the Independent interviewer and columnist accused of plagiarism, has been suspended for two months pending …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Reuters' Digital News Chief: “This is the Most Amazing Story Around”  —  The appointment of Anthony De Rosa, a product manager at Reuters who quickly became the company's Social Media editor, is “the most amazing (journalism) story around,” says Jim Impoco, Executive Editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, in this inteview with Beet.TV
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Chris Ariens / FishbowlNY:
Lance Ulanoff Leaving PCMag.com, Dan Costa Upped to Editor-in-Chief  —  After 16 years with the PCMag — first in print and later solely online — Lance Ulanoff (left) is leaving the Ziff Davis brand for “other interests.”  —  Dan Costa, who has been Executive Editor of PCMag.com …
Discussion: Folio and PC Magazine
Alysia Santo / CJR:
Q&A: Luke Stangel, Co-Creator of TapIn Bay Area  —  “Mobile could make us focus again on what we do really well as reporters.” … You quit your job to start Tackable, a social networking company, with Ed Lucero, a tech startup veteran.  Where did the original idea for a location-aware social network come from?
Discussion: Newsonomics, GigaOM and FishbowlLA
New York Post:
Kutcher's son of Sun Valley  —  Ashton Kutcher created his own Sun Valley-like conference for cool kids after the older moguls headed home.  —  The “Two and a Half Men” star has been bolstering his rep as a tech entrepreneur by investing in a host of start-up companies through a partnership …
Discussion: Gawker and Betabeat
MediaShift Idea Lab:
Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Build a ‘Maker Space’ for News  —  Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold.  The most exciting part about it is that it's entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 6:55 PM ET, July 12, 2011.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Radhika Jones / Nieman Storyboard:
“Why's this so good?” No. 3: André Aciman on the geography of longing
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Bloomberg Promotes Doctoroff To CEO
Chip Bayers / Adweek:
The Original Internet Adman
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Web-only studios mature by mimicking ‘old media’
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Big Media Thinks Its Future Is in Your Phone
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:mikepilarz
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Sends Signal to Wall Street With $5 Billion Share Buyback
Discussion: News Corporation and Media Decoder
 Earlier Picks: 
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:
Publisher Penguin Waddles Into Social Media Experiment With Peer Index
R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal:
HT Media Scouting For Hindi, Regional Language Newspapers
David Kaplan / paidContent:
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Rise A Bit, As Food Category Starts To Stumble
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
We've got to do something about pre-rolls