Mediagazer: TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

3:00 AM ET, September 24, 2011

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

Sky News:
Andy Coulson To Sue News Group Newspapers

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

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David Bowden / Sky News:
Phone Hacking: Lawyers To Launch US Action

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

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 …, VentureBeat, Adweek and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.

Discussion: Future of Journalism 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, The Awl and Marco.org, more at Techmeme »

John Carney / CNBC:

Here's the Real Reason Business Insider Is Doing So Well — Business Insider, the hyperactive online media company run by Henry Blodget, announced on Thursday another $7 million in funding. — The news of a cash infusion was actually broken by the site's start-up reporter, Allyson Shontel, a week earlier.

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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: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, JackLail.com, Gallup, Regret the Error, Kirk LaPointe's …, MediaPost, Mediaite, Free Press, Erik Wemple, Big Journalism and Reportr.net

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.

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

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CNN Managing Editor Mark Whitaker: We are Reaping the Benefits of Global Expansion — CNN's sizable investment in international coverage has paid off with increased television ratings and digital consumption, says Mark Whitaker, EVP and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV

Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:

Journalist Is Detained in China for Article on Sex Slaves — BEIJING — For a nation not yet inured to lurid and senseless crime, a report that a former civil servant in central China kept six women enslaved in an underground bunker — and that he killed two of them — was shocking enough.

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Blockbuster Movie Pass: Dish Network's $10/Month Answer To Netflix — Dish Network has the answer to Netflix: Blockbuster. The company bought the bankrupt Blockbuster six months ago at auction for $228 million and apparently wasted no time integrating Blockbuster's current streaming service into Dish's satellite TV plans.

Discussion: CNET News, Forbes, Multichannel, MediaFile, MediaPost, The Consumerist, The Wrap and CNNMoney.com, more at Techmeme »

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

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

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.

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