Mediagazer: A Business Insider retrospective (Marco.org)

4:25 PM ET, September 23, 2011

Top News:

David Bowden / Sky News:

Phone Hacking: Lawyers To Launch US Action — Lawyers acting for phone-hacking victims are planning to launch legal action in the US against directors of the News Of The World's (NOTW) parent company News Corp, Sky Sources have said. — It is another significant escalation in the phone-hacking saga …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Company Town and FishbowlNY

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: Dowler lawyer pursues US legal action against News Corp — Mark Lewis instructs lawyer of 20 9/11 families over allegations News of the World staff may have bribed police — The solicitor who represented the family of Milly Dowler in their phone-hacking claims …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, On Media's Blog, Adweek, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, Press Gazette and New York Magazine

Telegraph:

Phone hacking: News International paid Neil Wallis while he was at Scotland Yard — The former News of the World executive employed by the Metropolitan Police was secretly paid more than £25,000 by News International during his time at Scotland Yard, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: NI chief executive reneges on Rebekah Brooks promise to staff

Marco.org:

A Business Insider retrospective — After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers. — After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few years, often automatically by scraping Techmeme.

Discussion: The Awl, Future of Journalism, @marcoarment, @zee, @mathewi, Talking Biz News and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Dear Tumblr And Instapaper Genius Marco Arment: We're Sorry You're Not A Fan — We've read your criticism of our site, and we'd like to respond. — You don't like our headlines, our slideshows, our sharing buttons, and a bunch of other things. That's fine, we don't mind that our taste isn't your taste.

Discussion: Gawker

Ryan McCarthy / Felix Salmon:

Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic — The news that Business Insider raised approximately $7 million should be great news for those who follow the world of web media. Henry Blodget's got a flat-out growth story on his hands: his staff of 60 now attracts 12 million visitors …

Discussion: CNBC, Business Insider, Future of Journalism, MediaPost, @mccarthyryanj, PE Hub Blog, The Corsair, ITProPortal, Betabeat, AdPulp, eMedia Vitals, Daring Fireball, paidContent, Pulse2 and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources — Views of the News Media: 1985-2011 — OVERVIEW — Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985.

Discussion: Gallup, Poynter, Kirk LaPointe's …, Mediaite, Free Press, Erik Wemple, Big Journalism and Reportr.net

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store — (Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. — The business newspaper …

Discussion: MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, App Advice, 9to5Mac, GigaOM and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

HarperCollins to Allow Print-on-Demand Books — It's about to get easier to find more books at some small bookstores. — HarperCollins Publishers Inc. has agreed to make about 5,000 current paperbacks available to bookstores through On Demand Books LLC's Espresso Book Machine …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

The Guardian and Independent launch Facebook apps — Facebook unveils new type of app ‘which could be very interesting in terms of traffic’, according to the Guardian — The Guardian and Independent have become the first UK newspapers to launch a new style Facebook app …

Discussion: The Independent, naming blogs is easy, Guardian, Forbes, Gawker, Journalism.co.uk and Online Journalism Blog

Caitlin Johnston / American Journalism Review:

CNN Under Fire — Should the news outlet have cosponsored a GOP debate with the Tea Party Express? Fri., September 23, 2011 — Caitlin Johnston is a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't the only one under fire this primary season.

Discussion: TVNewser

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Jay Carney schools White House reporters — Jay Carney never lets the reporters he briefs each day forget that not so long ago, he was one of them. — Whether he's sidestepping a request to predict what can pass the House ("Well, I hung up my reporter cleats"), shutting down a line …

Discussion: Poynter

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

Ex-Yahoo VP Hired To Save Bloomberg.com Quits — Kevin Krim, the former Yahoo executive poached by Bloomberg in 2009, is leaving the financial giant, Business Insider learned on Friday. — His destination is unknown. — He had been tasked with turning Bloomberg.com into a more consumer-friendly site.

Discussion: paidContent and Talking Biz News

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Firm Offers Insight Into Tablet Mag Sales — Publishers have big hopes that tablet editions will help offset what have been soft sales of their ink on paper magazines. But digital magazine sales have been slow to take off. — Some are testing a new service that could help them get more out of their sales efforts though.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

New York Post:

Si's digital dollars creating Condé Niche — Armed with a $500 million war chest, Advance Publications, owned by the billionaire Newhouse family, has been quietly looking outside the Condé Nast tower to place bets on startups in the digital and tech world.

Discussion: Betabeat and Business Insider