Mediagazer: Sharpton Appears to Win Anchor Spot on MSNBC (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

2:30 PM ET, July 21, 2011

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In Court, Suggestions of Hacking Beyond The News of the World — LONDON — Front pages across Britain featured pictures of Rupert Murdoch apologizing for phone hacking at The News of the World. But further suggestions that the practice spread beyond his newspaper emerged in a small …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Telegraph, CNN, Free Press, The Independent and MediaFile

Journalism.org:

The Wall Street Journal under Rupert Murdoch — Although the scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch's media empire has focused on his British properties, it has also put News Corp's. U.S. outlets under a brighter spotlight—particularly the prestigious Wall Street Journal he acquired by purchasing Dow Jones for $5 billion in 2007.

Discussion: Poynter, Mixed Media, TVWeek.com, On Media's Blog, Chicago Reader, msnbc.com, Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post and Guardian

Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:

Scotland Yard Stint Lands Former Editor in Spotlight — One aspect of the tangled phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. is the alleged cozy relationships between tabloid editors and top police officers and leading politicians. Those connections are increasingly coming into view via the figure of Neil Wallis …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Guardian, N.Y. Times worked to break News Corp. hacking case

Discussion: Poynter, Business Week, Editors Weblog, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Chicago Tribune and CJR

Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Senate Dems Ask News Corp. to Investigate Itself

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Hillicon Valley, On Media's Blog and Bloomberg

The New York Observer:
Murdoch and His Critics

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Washington Times, Poynter, Guardian, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Nation, Erik Wemple, Slate, @gabrielsherman, News Desk, MinOnline, Forbes.com, Company Town and FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Sharpton Appears to Win Anchor Spot on MSNBC — After giving a nearly six-month tryout for the Internet talk show host Cenk Uygur, the cable news channel MSNBC is preparing to instead hand its 6 p.m. time slot to the Rev. Al Sharpton. — Mr. Sharpton's imminent hiring …

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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Cenk Uygur Is Out At MSNBC, Refused Alternate Time Slot

Discussion: Deadline.com, On Media's Blog and Inside Cable News

Business Wire:

The New York Times Company Reports 2011 Second-Quarter Results — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — NYT — 8.97 — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT - News) announced today a 2011 second-quarter diluted loss per share …

Discussion: New York Times, Poynter, Mixed Media, TechCrunch, Betabeat, AllThingsD, Media & Entertainment, Newsonomics, CNET News, Epicenter and FishbowlNY

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYTCo Swings To Loss; Digital Rises Double Digits, About Continues To Fall — In addition to seeing its advertising revenues continue to decrease due in part to the weak economy, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) swung to a loss on a $161.3 million write-down of assets at the Regional Media Group …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On Digital Mag Metrics — While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about the numbers. With that in mind, Condé Nast and its digital magazine partner Adobe …

Discussion: Adweek and The New York Observer

Lucia Moses / Adweek: Hearst, Bonnier Cave on MediaVest Demand for Tablet Data

Susan Candiotti / CNN:

9/11 families to meet with attorney general over phone hacking — (CNN) — Relatives of 9/11 victims will meet with the U.S. attorney general and other Justice Department officials to discuss allegations that a newspaper owned by News Corp. targeted phone conversations and voice mails …

Douglas Coupland / Guardian:

Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today — 100 years after the birth of the media visionary, ‘the medium is the message’ explains what Google and YouTube do to our souls — Over the years I've been asking people in my life who are old enough to remember which technological change felt …

Discussion: GigaOM

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Webs and whirligigs: Marshall McLuhan in his time and ours

Discussion: ZDNet, Brain Pickings, Daniel Bachhuber's weblog and Media Nation

Steve Safran / Lost Remote:

Guest Post: Google Plus pulls TV station account — This is a guest post from Kimberly Wilson, who founded SocialNewsDesk, a company that specializes in social media solutions for newsrooms. You'll find her on Twitter @kimberly_wilson and G+ at +Kim Wilson. — True to its word, Google has shut down the KOMU G+ account.

Discussion: Poynter, KCET, @poynter, Xeni Jardin and TVSpy

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

IAC's Vimeo Claims 50 Million Unique Users Worldwide, Cites Big Growth in Europe — Vimeo, the video sharing site of choice for many independent content creators, has reached 50 million users worldwide up from 30 million a year ago. — Big growth has occurred in Western Europe …

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Report: Online Video Will Replace Pay TV in 4.5 Million Homes by Year-End … NEW YORK - The cord cutting debate may move back into the spotlight. — Research firm SNL Kagan in its latest U.S. multichannel TV report on Wednesday predicted that while absolute pay TV subscriber numbers …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

New UK newspaper reportedly to be based on successful Daily Mail website — Norman Giller, from Sports Journalists, has reported that Associated Newspapers - home of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday among other newspapers - is on the verge of releasing a new Sunday red-top tabloid.

Discussion: Sports Journalists …