Mediagazer: Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches (hosted2.ap.org)

2:50 AM ET, July 16, 2011

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down — Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton is leaving the company in the wake of the PhoneGate hacking scandal. Hinton is the second high-ranking News Corp. executive to step down today, and the first major figure from the company's American operations.

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Dow Jones CEO Hinton to Resign — Les Hinton, who headed News Corp.'s News International unit when the phone-hacking allegations roiling the media empire first arose, on Friday will resign his post as chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., according to a person familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Guardian, On Media's Blog, Salon, USA Today, TheStreet.com, NPR, The Raw Story, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post and The Huffington Post

Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:

Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’ — Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Gawker, Mediaite, Company Town, The Daily Dish, The Daily What, The Huffington Post, Media Matters for America, On Media's Blog, Erik Wemple and The Wire

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: paidContent, Guardian, Forbes.com, Poynter, AdAge, Gothamist, Hillicon Valley and http://www.Stinkyjournalism …

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

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: Future of Journalism, Erik Wemple, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, The Wire, TVNewser, Guy Fawkes' blog, On Media's Blog, Inside Cable News, Media Matters for America and The Huffington Post

Wall Street / @wsj: Breaking: Les Hinton, chief executive of News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co. unit, is to resign today. http://wsj.com

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chief in Phone-Hacking Scandal

Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter

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

Discussion: Financial Times and Associated Press

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

Discussion: blogs.ft.com

Telegraph:
Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks resignation statement

Discussion: CNET News, Washington Post, Epicenter, AllThingsD and Poynter

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Facebook Is Getting Into the News Business — 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 to a thriving community with over 10 million members.

Discussion: Poynter, CNET News, VentureBeat, All Facebook, @mathewi, Inside Facebook, MarketingVox News & Trends and The Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

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: Adweek, The Wire, Media Decoder, @andrewrsorkin, The Big Picture, Multichannel, The Wrap and MediaPost

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

John Paton's Big Bet — Will “Digital First” bring home the bacon? … e're no good at this," John Paton says, sitting in a midtown Manhattan conference room on a gray, rainy spring day. “ We” is the news business, and “this” is designing a viable future for it. “ We have to figure it out.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, Future of Journalism and Digital First

Nosheen Iqbal / The Independent:

The long-form resurrection: Will snappy websites kill off lengthy magazine reads? — A new set of online curators that collect the best non-fiction suggests otherwise. — Last summer, the editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired wrote and ran a cover story declaring, “The Web is Dead”.

hosted2.ap.org:

Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches … BRUSSELS (AP) — Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its search listings Friday in what the papers alleged was retaliation by the internet giant over a court case dealing with copyright infringement.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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: The Trentonian and NYConvergence.com

Michael / Petrelis Files:

Bay Citizen, NYT Partner in SF, — Evasive on $17M Fiscal Transparency — As a 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.