Mediagazer: Monitoring Murdoch's Meltdown (Adweek)

9:40 AM ET, July 25, 2011

Top News:

Scandal Splinters a Family Business — News Corporation, the global enterprise controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has a history of living by its own rules and operating beyond consequence. That ended last week. — Mr. Murdoch, long a spectral presence who made his plays on a chess board of his own making …

Discussion: New Yorker, South Bend Tribune and New York Times

Anthony Lane / New Yorker:

HACK WORK - A tabloid culture runs amok. — On March 21, 2002, a thirteen-year-old English schoolgirl took the train home. Usually, she took it all the way to Hersham, seventeen miles from London, where she lived, but on that day she got off one stop before, at Walton-on-Thames, to get something to eat.

Discussion: Guardian

Vikram Dodd / Guardian:

Letters cast doubt on NoW claim that it ‘co-operated fully’ with police — Police asked for full file of Glenn Mulcaire's work but NI said it had only a single piece of paper covering his years of work — Legal letters sent by the News of the World to detectives have cast doubt …

Discussion: Crikey

Alicia Shepard / Washington Post:

Rupert Murdoch, Juan Williams and the upside of media scandals — Ten arrests. An imperiled prime minister. Parliament under attack. Scotland Yard mortified and England's largest tabloid shuttered. The scandal unfolding around Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. finds a new victim or oozes …

Adweek: Monitoring Murdoch's Meltdown

Tim Castle / Reuters:
News Corp's James Murdoch under pressure over hacking testimony

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and New York Times

New York Times:
CNN Host Is Dragged Into Phone Scandal

Discussion: Chickaboomer and New York Times

Seth Mnookin / New York Magazine:

The Kingdom and the Paywall — Some people thought that on Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s watch, the New York Times could actually become extinct. They might need to issue a correction. — Two weeks ago, I went to the New York Times' gleaming, modernist, Renzo Piano-designed headquarters …

Discussion: Poynter and @jayrosen_nyu

John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:
Bill Keller Pulls Plug on New York Times Magazine Column

Discussion: Poynter

Wall Street Journal:

Kobo, WSJ Halt Direct Sales on Apple-Device Apps — In a pair of moves that suggest Apple Inc. is enforcing rules for selling content on its devices, Kobo Inc., the Canadian e-book retailer, and The Wall Street Journal said Sunday they will no longer sell content directly to customers through their apps for Apple devices.

Discussion: The New York Observer, TechCrunch, CNET News, Mobile Entertainment, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Good E-Reader Blog, Electronista, Kobo, eBookNewser, The Digital Reader, MacStories and App Advice, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Flipboard Kicks Off Its First Advertising Program With Condé Nast — Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express, are part of a deal …

Discussion: AllThingsD, mediabistro.com, AdAge, PR Newswire, Media Week, The inneractive Blog, Future of Journalism, AllTwitter and parislemon

Wall Street Journal:

‘What About the Journal?’ A Report from the Special Committee — Are 2,000 reporters self-censoring themselves when we ask if they are under ideological pressure? We don't think so. — As a condition of the acquisition of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Gawker Will Go to Court in Fox Investigation — Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. — On Monday, the company and one of its reporters, John Cook …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Nafissatou Diallo gives Newsweek, ABC News her exclusive account of what happened with Dominique Strauss-Kahn — The 32-year-old woman who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault at the Sofitel hotel has publicly identified herself in interviews with Newsweek and ABC News.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Mediaite, ABCNEWS, Speakeasy, Media Decoder, ABCNEWS, Newsweek, Agence France Presse, PR Newswire, Gawker, ShortFormBlog and Gothamist

Lauren A.E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal:

Pitching the Softer Side of Anderson Cooper — CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and his producers will kick off a campaign this week to persuade America that Mr. Cooper has a softer side. — On Tuesday, the 44-year-old Mr. Cooper will take the stage at the television industry's semiannual conference …

Michael Meyer / Street Fight:

The Hyperlocal Journalist and the Salesperson — Michael Meyer is a guest author. If you'd like to submit a guest post, click here. — I've been building the Columbia Journalism Review's News Frontier Database for more than six months now. In that time I've edited and written profiles …

Discussion: CJR