Mediagazer: Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS (Elizabeth Jensen/Media Decoder)

12:40 PM ET, August 23, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Journalists Kept in Hotel as Battle Rages Outside — With an 18,000-square-foot spa, helicopter service upon request and a self-described “culture of service perfection,” the Rixos is Tripoli's premier hotel. — But over the weekend, the 120-room oasis in the center of the war-torn Libyan capital became …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, New York Magazine and Adweek

Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Libya: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting

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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Covering Libya: Who Was There, Who Wasn't, And Who Aired Caught On Tape

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Heather Kelly / VentureBeat:

The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet — The biggest hurdle to enjoying The Daily Dot, a fun new online news site that launches today, is that its premise is based on a bad metaphor: The Internet is a community and The Daily Dot is its local paper.

Discussion: MediaShift, Adweek, Poynter, ShortFormBlog, Forbes, eMedia Vitals, Mashable!, SiliconFilter, Nova Spivack, NetNewsCheck Latest and Betabeat, Thanks:dmfreeman

Robert Peston / BBC:

Coulson got hundreds of thousands of pounds from News Int — Mr Coulson resigned from News International in January 2007 — Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking and bribing the police …

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Amy Wicks / WWD:

People Bets on Kardashian Ka-Ching — WILL KK GO KA-CHING? Kim Kardashian might have been Glamour's top-selling cover girl of the year so far, but will her upcoming People cover, for which the title is said to have paid $1.5 million to the reality star and her new husband, do as well?

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Bloomberg:

Billionaire Slim Boosts Stakes in NYT as Market Slumps — Mexican Tycoon Pays $6.83 to $7.09 for 553,000 Times Co. Shares — Billionaire Carlos Slim spent $8.8 million to boost his stakes in Saks, Inc. and The New York Times Co., adding to his biggest U.S. holdings as the stock market slumped last week.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com

Lynne Russell / MediaShift:

Teaching Journalism in an Age When News Comes to You — Does it matter where a story comes from, as long as it makes the news? Apparently it doesn't matter at all, to many of the latest crop of journalism students who believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:

Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS — Bill Moyers says he is returning to public television in January, but he won't be found on the PBS lineup. — His new hourlong weekly show, called “Moyers & Company,” will focus on one-on-one interviews with people not often heard on television …

Discussion: TVNewser

Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:

A Magazine Bets That Readers Play Tag — IS a cellphone the key to a Glamour reader's heart? — The Condé Nast magazine is hoping that readers will use their cellphones to connect to additional digital content through mobile codes. For example, readers intrigued by the pop star Rihanna …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Jonathan Stempel / Yahoo! News:

Spitzer sued for libel over his Slate column — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was hit with two libel lawsuits seeking $90 million by former Marsh & McLennan Cos executives over a column posted on Slate.com about an insurance bid-rigging scandal.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, On Media's Blog, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Wire and The New York Observer

Brooks Boliek / The Politico:

FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine — The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules. — Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts …

Discussion: Free Press, Washington Post, Future of Journalism, Mother Jones and Mediaite

Jasmin Melvin / Reuters:
Outdated US media rules to be taken off the books

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Katherine Travers / Editors Weblog:

Are live blogs as useful as we think they are? — It seems the political situation in Libya has reached a turning point. As Libyan rebels flood the capital, surrounding Gaddafi's compound and claiming to have captured his son Saif al-Islam, the world is watching, awaiting the outcome of this dramatic social upheaval.

Discussion: BBC and Press Gazette

Felix Salmon / CJR:

Hewlett-Packard and the M&A Scoop — The death of the M&A scoop is going to happen slowly, but frankly it should happen as quickly as possible — and the past 24 hours in the history of Hewlett-Packard is an excellent indicator of why. — Yesterday, just after noon, Bloomberg found itself …

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

The AP And Corbis Combine Image Libraries In Distribution Deal — The Associated Press and photo service Corbis Images are bring their respective trove of licensed pictures together as the two look for ways to reach each other's customers. The “multi-year” deal, which will bring together …

Discussion: Poynter

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The NYT's new education site with WNYC will be collaborative, experimental...and meter-free — This morning, The New York Times and WNYC announced a new collaboration: SchoolBook, a site for news, data, and conversation about New York City schools. Slated to launch September 7 …

Discussion: WNYC News Blog, Future of Journalism, The New York Times Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, rbr.com and NYConvergence.com

The Daily Beast:

Murdoch Scandal's Shadow Man — Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye who hacked phones for News of the World, has kept a low profile, but a lawsuit is pushing him into the spotlight—and demanding he name names. Brian Cathcart on why that's bad news for the Murdochs.