Mediagazer: How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

4:40 PM ET, July 31, 2011

Top News:

Daily Caller cheap-shots the New York Times — The Daily Caller has just published a story showing how far it'll reach to allege liberal media bias. The grabby headline: “New York Times reporter advises White House media staff on Twitter.” — Aha, collusion! — Now for the evidence.

Discussion: The Caucus and The Daily Caller

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

@BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A Twitter Teapot — Yesterday, President Barack Obama concluded his address to the nation by urging Americans to contact their representatives and urge action on a debt ceiling resolution. “If you want to see a bipartisan compromise …

Discussion: Change The Ratio, Future of Journalism, Washington Post, Reuters, Mashable! and Michelle Malkin, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry — Newspapers and magazines used to publish content into a kind of void: they knew how many people subscribed, but that was about it — everything else was guesswork based on consumer surveys and other mumbo-jumbo.

Thanks:mathewi

Josh Gerstein / The Politico:

Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources — A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled. — In May, federal prosecutors subpoenaed Times reporter James Risen to testify …

Discussion: Salon and Future of Journalism

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC faces new 24-hour news strike on Monday — Stoppage over redundancies will be followed by ‘indefinite’ NUJ work to rule — The BBC is facing another day of disruption to its news programmes on Monday with many of its journalists due to go on a 24-hour strike before beginning an “indefinite” work to rule.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Media groups eye reporters' Twitter fans — Twitter and other social media sites are creating new tensions in traditional newsrooms as broadcasters and newspapers grapple with individual reporters' attempts to use the web to create a personal brand. — The question of who owns …

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea — TWO weeks ago, I raised questions about a New York Times article that warned of a bubble or Ponzi scheme in the development of shale gas energy. Today I want to look closely at the front page shale gas article that appeared one day later …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Old allegations of spying could haunt News Corp. in U.S. — Even though lawsuits have been settled, that wouldn't prevent the government from revisiting such allegations in investigations of possible phone hacking in America. — As British lawmakers and Scotland Yard investigate allegations …

Erik Wemple:

Business Insider's Zeke Miller: All over Washington, from New York Hill — Business Insider's Zeke Miller (at left) covers the debt crisis the same way many Beltway reporters do. He gets up before 5 a.m. to read up on the news and commentary. He arrives in the office at around 7 a.m. and spends the day reporting and aggregating.

Emily Witt / The New York Observer:

New York Germinates Stories for Hollywood Harvest — Two stories from New York have been optioned through the recent arrangement signed between the ICM agency and the magazine. ICM already represented The New York Times in Hollywood when it added New York as a client in June to better facilitate …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert for the Associated Press — In its modern, digital forms, writing has become something like an untended garden. It's overgrown with text-speak and crawling with invasive species like tweets and dashed-off e-mails. OMG, it's a mess.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Poynter and FishbowlNY

Mat Honan / Gizmodo:

Meet the Dozen Tech Publicists who Secretly Control the Media — The publicists and communications managers in the technology industry have tough jobs. They have to spin crap products into good stories. And let's face it, most of them are powerless. But not these dozen PR pros.