Mediagazer: News Corp. Analysts, Who Are These Guys? (Adweek)

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

At The Times, Era of ‘111-111-1111’ Nears Its End — Known simply as “The Ones,” they have been one of the most distinctive — and peculiar — features of working at The New York Times. — Anytime someone inside The Times's Manhattan headquarters makes a phone call, the number that appears …

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

The Times Is Losing Its 1111111111 Caller ID Number — If you've ever wanted to avoid a call from the New York Times — and let's face it, many of you have — it's been relatively easy. Because whenever someone from the Gray Lady calls, the caller ID turns up as 1111111111.

Discussion: The Awl and mediabistro.com

Felix Salmon:

How the NYT paywall is working — When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in the comments and on Twitter. Here's a sample: … But of course the paywall is working — with the emphasis very much on the “pay” rather than on the “wall”.

Discussion: Felix

Somini Sengupta / Bits:

A Perp Walk on Twitter — Lifting a page from the hacker's handbook, the Greater Manchester Police are naming and shaming rioters on their Twitter feed. — “We promised we'd name all those convicted for their roles in the disorder — here we go ...” the police announced …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Adweek, The Wall Blog, CNET News and New York Times

Adweek:

News Corp. Analysts, Who Are These Guys? — While many in the press anxiously awaited News Corp.'s quarterly earnings call with analysts on Wednesday, the reality of the event quickly killed any anticipated drama after weeks of coverage of the company's phone hacking scandal.

Discussion: BtoB Magazine, Media & Entertainment and Media Week

Discussion: Reuters

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

Riots are an opportunity for long-form data journalism — It is easy to think of “data journalism” as being about the automatic computer analysis of large datasets, but good data journalism has story-telling at the centre. Over the coming days, weeks, and months there is a lot of data journalism …

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog and Journalism.co.uk

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

A Rogue Tweeter Titillates, Then Vanishes — For the last five days, fear has hushed the elevators at Condé Nast. Few dared say much for fear of having their words appear on a satirical Twitter feed called @CondeElevator, which purported to capture the banalities and inanities …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Yahoo! News, The Awl, Adweek, NetNewsCheck Latest, Mashable!, The Business Insider, Gawker, The Huffington Post and NYConvergence.com

Alysia Santo / CJR:

Borders' Newsstand Blues — Store closings spell trouble for niche magazine titles — Just like plenty of other Borders shoppers, Kevin Walter has been getting messages in his inbox from the bankrupt book behemoth, reminding him to hurry in and take advantage of the storewide clearance …

Discussion: Publishing Executive News

Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:

How SeeClickFix Built Revenue Streams From Potholes — SeeClickFix started humbly in 2008 — from potholes in New Haven, Conn. But it grew quickly as it mobilized citizens in thousands of communities around the U.S. to flag irritating and sometimes serious 311-type problems in their neighborhoods.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Mirror Group Digital Will Charge For Some Content To Recoup Bingo Losses — Trinity Mirror's national news wing is set to start charging for some content this autumn, to arrest falling digital revenue. — CEO Sly Bailey told City analysts: “Expect significant developments to the Mirror.co.uk …

Discussion: Guardian, Jon Slattery and Press Gazette

William Wheeler / CJR:

Building Haiti's Post-Quake Media — While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I often stayed—once the dominion of grassroots activists disdainful of reporters—was gradually overrun by journalists.

D.M. Levine / Adweek:

Joel Hyatt: ‘A Natural Thing’ To Re-Claim CEO Title New Current TV boss plays up network's tilt toward news By D.M. Levine — Current TV CEO Joel Hyatt says that the departure of Mark Rosenthal, his former co-chief at the network, a few weeks ago, came amidst a broader push to revamp Current …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Bloomberg Raids Tina Brown's ‘Newsweek’ — In another defection from the Newsweek Daily Beast Co., Newsweek general manager Alan Bone was hired away by Bloomberg Businessweek. As Businessweek's head of international circulation, a new position, Bone will be responsible for launching Businessweek's …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Alex / digiphile:

New digital journalism tools and platforms to connect, present and inspire — “It doesn't have to be like this,” said Alexis Madrigal. “You don't have to write bad stuff to get people to come to a website” — Tonight at the August meeting of the Online News Association in D.C. …