Mediagazer: Bay Citizen, NYT Partner in SF, — Evasive on $17M Fiscal Transparency (Michael/Petrelis Files)

2:35 PM ET, July 15, 2011

Top News:

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chief in Phone-Hacking Scandal — Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive officer of News Corp. (NWS)'s News International U.K. publishing unit, has stepped down amid a phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the News of the World tabloid she once edited.

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, Guardian, AdAge, Wall Street Journal, Poynter, Telegraph, Reuters, Mixed Media, The Wire, Mediaite, Guardian, CNN, CNBC, Business Wire, The Independent, Financial Times, The Times, C21Media and @benfenton

Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter — How News International's chief executive informed staff she was stepping down — Rebekah Brooks resigns over phone-hacking scandal — At News International we pride ourselves on setting the news agenda for the right reasons. Today we are leading the news for the wrong ones.

Telegraph:

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks resignation statement — Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News International following the phone hacking scandal. Here is the internal memo that was sent to NI staff: — Rebekah Brooks resigns in wake of NOTW phone-hacking scandal

Discussion: Washington Post, AllThingsD, Epicenter, Poynter and ShortFormBlog

The Daily Beast:

Murdoch Scandal Roils WSJ — Faced with sleazy corporate cousins, reporters at the august Wall Street Journal are grappling with how to cover their boss's scandal—and their own survival. By Nick Summers. — On Tuesday, July 5, bureau chiefs and editors at The Wall Street Journal dialed …

Discussion: Poynter, Hillicon Valley, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, Erik Wemple, Company Town and The Nation

Jane Martinson / Guardian:

Tom Mockridge: profile of News International's new chief executive — Rebekah Brooks's replacement started as a print journalist down under before moving to run pay-TV channel Sky Italia — Tom Mockridge started his career as a national newspaper journalist working for the chief rival to Rupert Murdoch's interests in Australia.

Discussion: Forbes.com, mediabistro.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Adweek

Bruce Orwall / Wall Street Journal:
In Interview, Murdoch Defends News Corp.

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Down with Murdoch: Rebekah Brooks is gone, but now it's Parliament that's in trouble

Discussion: Forbes.com, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Seize the chance for media reform

Discussion: blogs.ft.com

Sam Marsden / The Independent:
Murdoch to apologise in national newspapers

Discussion: Financial Times and Associated Press

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
For Murdoch Loyalist, Another Stint in the Spotlight

Discussion: Guardian and On Media's Blog

Brian Braiker / Adweek:
The Murdoch Maelstrom Comes West

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Natasha Mohanty / Google News Blog:

Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? — Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Andrew Ross Sorkin Joins CNBC as Co-Anchor of ‘Squawk Box’ — First on TVNewser: CNBC has hired New York Times scribe and DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin to be the new co-anchor of the signature morning program “Squawk Box,” TVNewser has learned. — Sorkin, who has been a contributor on CNBC …

Discussion: The Wire, Media Decoder, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, The Big Picture and @andrewrsorkin

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Facebook Working with Top News Brands on ‘Facebook Editions’ — If you're a leading news brand, this guy wants to be your friend. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife — Facebook has a war on its hands, and Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Practically overnight, Google+ has gone from a rumor …

Discussion: Poynter

D.M. Levine / Adweek:

CNN Keeping Mum About Piers Morgan Hacking Allegations — CNN hasn't been shy about covering the phone hacking related woes of News Corp., parent of rival news network Fox News. It's devoted more than 100 segments to the scandal, according to liberal press watchdog Media Matters.

Discussion: The Wrap, Media Matters for America, On Media's Blog, TVNewser, Guy Fawkes' blog, Inside Cable News, The Wire, The Huffington Post and All Things CNN

Rafe Needleman / CNET News:

Is Reddit the new Twitter? ‘Redditor’ reports live from apt. complex turned crime scene — A standoff between New Jersey police and a man who reportedly shot another man with a rifle is being reported live on the Web. But not on Twitter, from which previous real-time incidents …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com and The Trentonian

Steve Green / VEGAS INC:

Judge: Righthaven masquerading as a company — A judge today fined newspaper copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas $5,000 for misleading a federal court about its lawsuits. — A Righthaven attorney, Shawn Mangano, said after a hearing before U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt …

Discussion: Techdirt, Free Press, Ars Technica, paidContent, WebProNews and Righthaven Victims

BBC:

Guardian apologises to the Sun over Gordon Brown story — Gordon Brown questioned how the Sun came about information on his son's medical condition — The Guardian has apologised to the Sun for reporting that it accessed Gordon Brown's son's medical records.

Discussion: paidContent, Poynter and blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Jonathan / awe.sm:

Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does — Over the last few weeks, TechCrunch has run a couple posts using their own referrer logs to measure how sharing on various social services drives traffic. In these and other analyses based solely on referrer information …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, WebProNews, Future of Journalism, The Next Web, Both Sides of the Table, Editors Weblog, the Econsultancy blog, eMedia Vitals, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

Michael / Petrelis Files:

Bay Citizen, NYT Partner in SF, — Evasive on $17M Fiscal Transparency — As news junkie, I have followed the creation of the Bay Citizen, a regional online news service that twice-weekly provides content to the New York Times' print and online Bay Area section.