Mediagazer: Facebook's f8 livestream: 25 days in the making, a 40-person team, a milestone in online media (The Next Web)

5:25 PM ET, September 23, 2011

Top News:

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, Associated Press, Adweek, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, New York Magazine and Press Gazette

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: Company Town, mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY

Sky News:

Andy Coulson To Sue News Group Newspapers — Former News Of The World editor Andy Coulson is suing News Group newspapers, his former employer. — Mr Coulson is taking legal action over their decision to stop paying his legal fees. — Papers were reportedly served at the High Court …

Discussion: Adweek

Telegraph:
Phone hacking: News International paid Neil Wallis while he was at Scotland Yard

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, @marcoarment, Future of Journalism, @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

Discussion: CNBC, Business Insider, Future of Journalism, MediaPost, @mccarthyryanj, PE Hub Blog, The Corsair, ITProPortal, AdPulp, Betabeat, eMedia Vitals, Daring Fireball and paidContent, 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: NetNewsCheck Latest, Regret the Error, Poynter, Gallup, Mediaite, Kirk LaPointe's …, Erik Wemple, Free Press, 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 »

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Baltimore Sun to put up paywall next month — The Sun's paywall goes up October 10. “To encourage readers to sign up at launch, we will offer a special introductory rate of 99 cents for the first 4 weeks,” says publisher Tim Ryan's memo. “After that, digital-only subscribers will have a cost of $2.49 a week or $49.99 for 26 weeks.

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-TechCrunch Star Paul Carr Is Starting A New Company Backed By... Michael Arrington's CrunchFund! — Last week, TechCrunch columnist and author Paul Carr quit TechCrunch in spectacular fashion, accusing AOL management of royally screwing up everything and knifing founder Mike Arrington.

Discussion: Bringing Something …

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

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

The Next Web:

Facebook's f8 livestream: 25 days in the making, a 40-person team, a milestone in online media — For me, the biggest news from Facebook's f8 event today isn't social music, the partnerships or even the new Timeline feature - it's the livestream. — This was no live feed …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:martinsfp

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, ReadWriteWeb, Journalism.co.uk and Online Journalism Blog, more at Techmeme »

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:

Changes Coming to ‘Wall Street Journal’ — The Wall Street Journal is about to get a new look, one that will bring more color to the traditionally staid business paper, and that could help it attract advertisers. — This is one more in a series of changes to the feel of the look …