Mediagazer: CNBC drops ‘World Business’ (Keach Hagey/On Media's Blog)

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

CNBC drops ‘World Business’ — CNBC has pulled its weekend international business show, “World Business,” after a blog edited by Gordon Brown's sister-in-law found that the show's production company was doubling as a PR firm for Malaysian politicians. — The blog, the Sarawak Report …

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, Sarawak Report, The Wire, Inside Cable News and Media Matters for America

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Inc. Doubles Down on Tablets, Promises All Magazines on All Platforms by End of Year — Magazine publishers have veered back and forth on what tablets means for their business — Savior! Disappointment! Maybe sort of promising! — but here's Time Inc. making another bet on the technology …

Discussion: TechCrunch, MinOnline, PC Magazine, Poynter, Future of Journalism, Betabeat and mediabistro.com

Pentagram:

Inside The New York Times Building — One of the best-reviewed documentaries of the summer, “Page One: Inside The New York Times” is a new film directed by Andrew Rossi that takes viewers inside the newsroom of the world's greatest newspaper. The film portrays a particularly tumultuous year at the Times …

Discussion: Poynter

Nieman Journalism Lab:

Transparency, iteration, standards: Knight-Mozilla's learning lab offers journalism lessons of open source — This spring, the Knight Foundation and Mozilla took the premise of hacks and hackers collaboration and pushed it a step further, creating a contest to encourage journalists …

Discussion: P2PU (beta)

Greg Marx / CJR:

The NY Times's New Top Editor in D.C. — A conversation with incoming Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt … Let's start with the basics about your new assignment. What does a Washington bureau chief do? You had a pretty great job before, so what appealed to you about taking on this new role?

Discussion: Poynter and LA Observed

R. Scott Moxley / Navel Gazing:

Ex-Arnold Schwarzenegger Flight Attendant Files $40 Million Libel Suit Against Gawker, National Enquirer — Arnold Schwarzenegger's longtime personal flight attendant has filed a $40 million lawsuit that claims Gawker, National Enquirer, London Daily Mail and other news outlets libeled …

Discussion: The New York Observer, New York Magazine and The Informer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Warner Bros. Pulls Back the Curtain on Flixster Collections, Its Ambitious Digital Video Bet — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent a lot of yesterday's earnings call discussing the company's future in digital video. Here's one of his focal points: Flixster Collections …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The Atlantic Launches a Video Aggregator With a Twist — The Atlantic, which added a photo section to its brainy web site earlier this year, has taken the next logical step: A digital nook dedicated to moving pictures. — The site's new section joins many other sites' video verticals which bring you clips from around the Web.

Micheal Miner / News & Features, Chicago Reader:

To feed or not to feed the digital beast — How do investigative outlets like ProPublica and the Voice of San Diego keep Web traffic flowing? — “This is the core struggle of my human existence right now,” Andrew Donohue, editor of the nonprofit website Voice of San Diego, says of journalism's digital age.

Discussion: Poynter

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Carole Simpson: ‘Things have changed drastically’ for women & minorities in newsrooms — When Carole Simpson began her career in the 1960s, there was little diversity in newsrooms. Hoping to carve a path for women and minorities, Simpson became the first female to broadcast radio news in Chicago …

Discussion: Associated Press and Future of Journalism

Charlie Savage / Media Decoder:

Judge Explains Letting a Reporter Protect His Source — A federal court on Wednesday unsealed a judge's opinion from last week explaining why she had issued an order on July 20 largely quashing a subpoena to the writer of a book on the Central Intelligence Agency.

Discussion: New York Times

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Pete Hamill on His Tabloid and the Future of Journalism — Beloved newspaperman - from back when the term held significance - and novelist Pete Hamill spoke about his new book Tabloid City, the future of journalism (it will survive) and the good old days last night at The Museum of the City of New York.

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

“Community management in the newsroom” - The Guardian's Laura Oliver at Hack/Hackers London — I've said on many occasions that I am genuinely baffled how so many news organisations seem to think that they can grow an active community on their website, without investing in any community management.

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Hulu Enters Original Programming with Morgan Spurlock Series — Deal Shows Video Site Aspires to Be More Than Passive Distributor of Shows — Anyone seriously considering a $2 billion deal for Hulu will want to know it has a future beyond just distributing TV from networks such a ABC, NBC, Fox and Comedy Central.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Agence France Presse and Media Decoder

Matt Chaban / The New York Observer:

Telephonies, or Have You Been Phone Hacked? — Call me. (Sox First — If you live Uptown, odds are, you have not been phone hacked. The scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., half of Britain and CNN star Piers Morgan has yet to have much of an impact in New York …

Discussion: blogs.journalism.co.uk, CJR, Big News Network.com, The Daily Dish and Boing Boing

Carolyn Kellogg / Jacket Copy:

Facebook acquires Push Pop Press, but won't make books — Facebook has bought ebook publisher Push Pop Press. But that doesn't mean they're getting into the publishing business. In fact, it's exactly the opposite: Push Pop Press is getting out. — “Although Facebook isn't planning …

Discussion: Guardian, Gizmodo Australia, Nxtblog, Engadget and L.A. Times Tech Blog