Mediagazer: Redstate Digs up WaPo Writer's Criminal History (Betsy Rothstein/FishbowlDC)

10:00 AM ET, October 6, 2011

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Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD:

The Steve Jobs I Knew — That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple's CEO in August. He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or a Henry Ford, and set the mold …

John Markoff / New York Times:

Steven P. Jobs, 1955-2011: Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56 — Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday.

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Apple Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs has died, the company said late Wednesday. He was 56. — Jobs stepped down from his longtime role as Apple CEO in August, after years of suffering from complications related to pancreatic cancer.

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How Steve Jobs changed (but didn't save) journalism — Editor's note: With news of Steve Jobs' passing on Oct. 5, we thought it was appropriate to republish this story, written when he resigned as CEO of Apple, about his impact on journalism. — Steve Jobs resigned Wednesday as CEO of Apple Inc. …

Discussion: Charles Apple, The Next Web, Forbes, Naked Security, @brianstelter, Telegraph, MyFox New York, TeleRead and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Ex-Gizmodo editor: I wrote my apology letter to Steve Jobs three weeks ago — Brian Lam, who was editor of Gizmodo during the 2010 iPhone 4 leak saga, says that “sometimes, I wish we never found that phone at all” because in the end “it caused me a lot of grief, and stopped writing almost entirely.”

Discussion: Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

‘Time’, ‘Businessweek’ Plan Special Steve Jobs Coverage — The media has gone into full swing to cover Steve Jobs' death, with Time and Bloomberg Businessweek among those preparing special coverage. — Time's regular weekly issue, which goes on stands Friday, will devote its whole feature well …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, TVNewser, TechCrunch, paidContent and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

Andy Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:

Steve Jobs' Biography Sales Jump 42,000 Percent Upon Death … The untimely death of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday at age 56 has given a boost to sales of the upcoming authorized biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. — The book is No. 1 on Amazon's “Movers & Shakers” list …

Discussion: VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Erin Burnett's New Show Getting Brutal Response After Her Mockery Of Occupy Wall Street — We mentioned yesterday how Occupy Wall Street folk were angry at Erin Burnett for mocking their protest. — And it's not just them. — Hedge funder Eric Jackson weighed in and called her “vapid.”

Discussion: Forbes.com, Brooklyn Mutt and The Huffington Post

MyFox New York:
Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons

Discussion: New York Times, The New York Observer, Viewfinder BLUES, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Forbes, Gawker and Hit & Run

Drew Grant / The New York Observer:
Jesse LaGreca: The Smartest Man on Wall Street?

Discussion: Capital New York, The New Yorker Blog, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Betabeat, The Atlantic Online, GalleyCat, Quote and Comment and The Atlantic Wire

Ben Berkowitz / Reuters:
To occupy Wall Street, occupy the internet first

Discussion: GigaOM, MediaPost, Change of Subject and Felix

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
WSJ has nothing to say about Occupied Wall Street Journal

Discussion: Breaking Copy, The Huffington Post and J-School

Katherine Travers / Editors Weblog:
Citizen journalism thrives in Occupy Wall Street coverage

Discussion: The News About The News

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Not So Much on a Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (They're Crazy, But Not That Crazy) — Is this investment-banker-hype week and nobody told me? — It certainly seems so from all the almost ridonkulous rumors about everyone and their mother being “imminently poised” to make a bid for Yahoo.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Marketing Pilgrim, NetNewsCheck Latest, BGR, Business Insider, The Next Web, New York Post and Tech Trader Daily

Reuters:
Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo

Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:
Should Disney just buy Yahoo?

Discussion: CNET News and Wall Street Journal

Microsoft:

Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV — AT&T, BBC, Comcast, HBO, Rogers, Telefónica, Televisa and Verizon are among providers rolling out new TV entertainment services on Xbox LIVE. — A new era in television begins this holiday where your entertainment …

Discussion: Forbes, Business Insider, The Windows Blog, TechNet Blogs, PR Newswire, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, The Seattle Times, The Next Web, EON, VentureBeat, Multichannel, PC Magazine, GeekWire, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Electronista, Adweek, GigaOM, Bits, VideoNuze, CNET News and Comcast Voices

Jay Greene / CNET News:
Microsoft to bring cable programming to Xbox

Discussion: TechNet Blogs, GeekWire and The Next Web

Dylan Byers / Adweek:

Huffington Post to Launch Detroit and Miami Sites — The Huffington Post will launch two new city pages in November, Adweek has learned: HuffPost Detroit and HuffPost Miami. — HuffPo has been launching a lot of new topic pages lately, enough so that the announcement of two new ones might normally not be newsworthy.

Discussion: Mixed Media

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Politics Daily founder Henneberger joins Washington Post — Melinda Henneberger will write portraits of key political players and crucial campaign moments for the Washington Post. “She also will anchor a new blog on politics and culture that will highlight the voices of some of the country's …

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Redstate Digs up WaPo Writer's Criminal History — As it happens, WaPo's Stephanie McCrummen has an alleged criminal past. She's the reporter who wrote about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry's “Niggerhead” hunting camp that has gained traction nationwide.

Discussion: mikerobinsonpc's blog, The New York Observer and New York Magazine

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Jay Carney's Message To Reporters ‘Screamed At’ By Sources: Toughen Up — At Wednesday's White House daily briefing, Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry asked Press Secretary Jay Carney to respond to a report that a White House official had “screamed and cussed at” …

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:

Google to launch YouTube Politics — Google-owned YouTube is launching a special site Thursday that it hopes will be a one-stop online spot for political junkies to watch the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2012 presidential campaign. — The site, YouTube Politics …

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Conan O'Brien Returns To Studio 6B In Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Walk-On — Conan O'Brien returned to the NBC studio at Rockefeller Center last night in a surprise walk-on comedy bit on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. O'Brien had basically hosted the very same show now hosted by Jimmy Fallon for 16 years …

Richard Jones / The Richard Jones Journalism Blog:

Thirteen Lessons I've Learned From Running A Hyperlocal Site — I set up Saddleworth News in February 2010. — I thought it would be a good way to keep myself involved in journalism while I stayed at home as a full-time dad to my young daughter, and I hoped it would become a source …

Discussion: Street Fight and Poynter

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Wild Times: TWT, NPR, PBS to Co-Host Debate — What do you get when you cross the conservative TWT with the progressive NPR and the objective PBS? — No doubt, strange bedfellows. — The trio will host a nationally televised GOP presidential debate on March 19.

Discussion: Multichannel and FishbowlLA

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Tom Robbins, post-'Voice': Today's piece in the ‘Times’ won't be his last, and a book about ‘a mobster’ is coming — Tom Robbins. — It's been nine months since veteran investigative journalist Tom Robbins resigned from his longtime job at The Village Voice after a round of downsizing claimed …

Discussion: New York Times

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC cuts: nearly 2,000 jobs to go — More repeats on BBC2, fewer entertainment shows and smaller BBC3 and BBC4 as corporation seeks to save £670m — The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning.

Discussion: Guardian and Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and media standards - live — Full coverage of the first seminar in the inquiry into media standards and ethics, where those appearing include former News of the World editor Phil Hall — 1.00pm: Well, this incident in newspaper history was always …

Claude Brodesser-Akner / New York Magazine:

Hulu Is Also Making a Play for the Arrested Development Mini-series — In a move to outflank fierce rival Netflix, Hulu has jumped into the bidding war to exclusively distribute a new batch of Arrested Development episodes, greatly increasing the chances of a Bluth family reunion.