Mediagazer: Investors Await News Corp. Meeting (Wall Street Journal)

Investors Await News Corp. Meeting — News Corp. executives will try to use an important board meeting and full-year earnings this week to steer attention away from the scandal at the media giant's U.K. newspapers unit and refocus investors on the company's core operations, people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: Poynter, Guardian, Betabeat, Deadline.com and The Wrap

News Corp.'s Soft Power in the U.S. — Over the last month, many Americans watched from a distance in horror or amusement as it became evident that the News Corporation regarded Britain's legal and political institutions as its own private club. — That could never happen in the United States, right?

Discussion: Free Press, On Media's Blog, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Magazine

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Q&A With UK Journalist Who Uncovered News Corp Scandal: Rupert Murdoch Likely To Outlast James Who's In “A Tight Corner”, The Guardian's Nick Davies Says — James Murdoch could lose his job as News Corp's deputy COO or BSkyB's chairman as soon as this fall.

Discussion: Adweek, The New York Observer, Company Town and Future of Journalism

Nat Ives / AdAge:

New York Times Introduces Beta620, a Public Site for its Experimental Projects — Consumers Can Test Smarter Search Bar, New Crossword App and Other Ideas — The New York Times has introduced its long-delayed Beta620, a public beta testing site where web surfers can experiment with new products …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter, beta620, VatorNews, Fast Company, eMedia Vitals, paidContent, the Econsultancy blog, Chrisgillbard.com and Future of Journalism, Thanks:steverubel

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France — PARIS — France has caused plenty of headaches for Google. Its politicians have denounced the U.S. Internet giant as a cultural imperialist; its publishers have called it a copyright cheat. — Yet France is suddenly the only country …

Discussion: VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:

The New Yorker Under the Microscope — Last week, The New Yorker ran a play-by-play about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was quickly accepted as one of the most impressive pieces of magazine journalism so far this year — ASME bait and bound to be a major motion picture screenplay.

Discussion: Adweek, FishbowlNY, Poynter and The New Yorker Blog

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Why 500 Channels Means 19 Shows About Pawnshops — As the FCC Considers New Rules to Grant Access, Networks Stick With What Works: Stealing Their Competitors' Shows — Five hundred channels and nothing to watch, unless of course you're into pawnshops, weddings, cupcakes or guys rummaging through attics, barns or storage units.

Discussion: Multichannel, Thanks:learmonth

Adweek:

First Mover: Frank Rich — How is it being back with New York editor Adam Moss? — It's great. Our editorial relationship dates back to when he was essentially a kid at Esquire in 1987, when he called me up out of the blue. I didn't want to do the assignment; he convinced me to do it.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

New York Times:

Ad Money Reliably Goes to Television — The economy is faltering and consumers are scared, but you wouldn't know it by watching television, where advertisers are still pouring in money. — Last week, companies like Viacom, CBS and Time Warner reported windfalls in television revenue, much of it from growing ad spending.

Discussion: Adweek

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Interview: Digital's Second Age Begins Now, FT CEO Says — Financial Times chief executive John Ridding tells paidContent that data and mobile will fuel digital publishing in to a 2.0 phase. But he may need to score a victory against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to get there.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Steve Outing:

The stupidity of our current media age (print-digital edition) — I just renewed my subscription to Wired magazine. $12 for another year of the print edition, plus I get the tablet edition for free to read an enhanced edition on my iPad. What a deal! — Alas, I don't want the print edition!

Discussion: Future of Journalism

SplatF:

Adventures in self-publishing: Here's what a month-old news site looks like — Last Friday marked the end of the first month since I started publishing SplatF. — When I launched the site in early July, I mentioned that one of the reasons I'm doing this is to see whether self-publishing online is a viable business.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Curation Tool Storify Partners With MSNBC's Breaking News For Sourced News Content — As you may know, content curation platform Storify, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, brings together Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, videos and more from social networking sites to create a realtime view into a story or issue.

Discussion: Real-time curation and BBC College of Journalism Blog