Mediagazer: Media Blackout in China After Wreck (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)

10:20 AM ET, August 1, 2011

Top News:

CNN's Morgan Tries to Fend Off Scrutiny — CNN said it is standing by television host Piers Morgan amid growing media scrutiny over his past as a tabloid editor in Britain, where a widening scandal over reporting tactics has led to a re-examination of the tabloid-newspaper industry.

Discussion: The Wire, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Murdoch Hacked Us Too — The News Corp. scandal already exposed just how thoroughly the company had corrupted Britain. Now it's time to look on this side of the pond. — When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Media Myth Alert and New York Magazine

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Gauging Impact of a Scandal — How worried is The Wall Street Journal that it could be tainted by the scandal roiling Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers? — Worried enough that it is asking its readers point-blank: What impact, if any, do the illegal acts by News of the World journalists …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Al Jazeera English Breaks Into NYC Market — NEW YORK — Six months after New York City news junkies flocked to Al Jazeera Englishâs website for up-to-the-second coverage of the Egyptian uprising, theyâll now have a chance to watch the 24-hour news network on its original platform: television.

Discussion: New York Times, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, The Wire and Future of Journalism

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Inside Sports Illustrated: Building a Magazine for the Digital Age — Among magazines, Sports Illustrated has emerged as a leader in the digital age. — In addition to its print edition, the title has produced a tablet edition for the iPad every week since it debuted last June …

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CNN's iReport at Five Years: “Core of How We Tell Big, Breaking Stories” — On Tuesday (August 2), hundreds of citizen reporters around the world will attend Meetups organized by CNN to mark the fifth year anniversary of its iReport. — CNN iReport has over 800,000 registered contributors …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing — When magazine publishers began pouring their resources and hopes into the iPad, their thinking was that readers wanted something substantially more than just words on a screen. A simple PDF of a page just would not do. The app had to dazzle the senses.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:

PBS Plans a British Outlet — PBS, known as the American television outlet for many British programs produced by the BBC and others, is looking to turn the tables by starting a digital channel in Britain. — The channel, which would be distributed via cable and satellite …

Discussion: Adweek

Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:

Media Blackout in China After Wreck — BEIJING — After days of growing public fury over last month's high-speed train crash and the government's reaction, Chinese authorities have enacted a virtual news blackout on the disaster except for positive stories or information officially released by the government.

David Carr / New York Times:

Bringing Comfort Food to Print Fans — After an improbable rise as a chef who took a tiny noodle shop in New York and parlayed it into a kind of punk rock culinary movement and five wildly successful restaurants, David Chang seemed destined to become a television star.

KABC-TV:

ABC7 reporter Leanne Suter struck by BB gun fire in Fontana — FONTANA, Calif. (KABC) — ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Leanne Suter was injured by a pellet fired from a BB gun while covering a story in Fontana on Saturday. — Suter was struck in the hand. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and will be OK.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Gawker, NY Daily News, BuzzFeed, L.A. NOW and msnbc.com

Jon Slattery:

Guardian: ‘Journalistic success but losses up’ — Guardian News & Media, publisher of the Guardian and the Observer, has had another challenging year financially with a sharp fall in recruitment advertising and has reported an operating loss of £38.3 million, compared to £37.8 million in 2010, for the year to April 3.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:

Leak With Care — Pro tips for whistle-blowers-to-be. — Whistle-blowing is now a fact of life," Stephen M. Kohn said last week. He was sitting in Langan's, a News Corp. haunt in midtown where Rupert Murdoch has been known to pop in, when his company is not facing a whistle-blower-induced crisis. "

Barry Malone / Photographers:

Me and the man with the iPad — I never know how to behave when I go to write about hungry people. — I usually bring just a notebook and a pen because it seems somehow more subtle than a recorder. I drain bottled water or hide it before I get out of the car or the plane.