Mediagazer: AN OPEN LETTER TO LOS ANGELES TIMES WRITER PATT MORRISSON (Zooey Deschanel/Hello Giggles)

12:25 AM ET, July 13, 2011

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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.

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, Gawker, mediabistro.com, Splice Today, Company Town, Gothamist, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY, Bloomberg, The Wire, Forbes.com, Future of Journalism and The New York Observer

David Cay Johnston / Reuters:

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
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New York Times:
News Corporation Moves to Delay BSkyB Deal to Avoid Its Collapse

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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
In Defense of Murdoch — NEW YORK — Fair warning …

Discussion: Media Research Center and Mediaite

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Thanks for the Apology, Huffington Post. Now Please Apologize to the Writer You Suspended — An Open Letter From Our Media Guy to Peter S. Goodman … Dear Peter, — My sincere thanks to you for your gracious apology. Your incredibly swift response to my column was heartening.

Discussion: The Wrap, digiday:DAILY, Erik Wemple, Future Journalism Project, Poynter, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The New York Observer, CJR, Silicon Valley Watcher, AdAge, Erik Wemple, Fortune, Poynter, Editors Weblog, AllThingsD and Poynter

Yahoo! News: HuffPo controversy highlights cavalier online editorial culture

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.

Discussion: News Desk, New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared, Mashable! and Guardian

Jana Winter / Fox News:
Gawker Tries to Reveal Identity of CIA Agent Behind Bin Laden Kill

Discussion: The Wire

Steve Myers / Poynter:

U.S. has same number of newspapers now as in 1890s — Stanford has used data from the Library of Congress to illustrate the spread of all kinds of newspapers across the U.S. from 1690 to 2011. Users can see which cities had multiple papers and click on them to learn more about them.

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

Zooey Deschanel / Hello Giggles:

AN OPEN LETTER TO LOS ANGELES TIMES WRITER PATT MORRISSON — This is an open letter in response to a piece entitled Downtown LA: Good enough for the royals, but not for Zooey Deschanel?, written by columnist Patt Morrison, which appeared in the publication on July 10, 2011. — Dear Ms. Morrison,

Discussion: Kempton, Mediaite, The Informer, ZOOEY'S MISCELLANY, LA Observed, Opinion L.A., Washington Post, Gawker and FishbowlLA

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Gawker on Drugs (Literally!) — On Monday, Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio unrolled a fairly epic foray into the world of stunt journalism: an attempt to re-create Major League pitcher Dock Ellis' infamous no-hitter of June 12, 1970 against the San Diego Padres, pitched while tripping on LSD.

Discussion: Deadspin and The Wrap

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 Wire

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

With NBCU Digital Studio Closure, What's Next for Network-Backed Web Series? — Why Comcast Wanted the No. 4 Broadcast Network to Change Its Digital Strategy — Comcast's decision to close NBC Universal's Digital Studio was only the latest attempt to answer questions about making …

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, CyberJournalist.net, GigaOM and FishbowlLA

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.

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Press Gazette and blogs.telegraph.co.uk