Mediagazer: Google's Blog Strategist and Manager, Karen Wickre, Departs After Nine Years (Pamela Parker/Search Engine Land)

12:00 AM ET, October 11, 2011

Top News:

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Geraldo Greeted By Occupy Wall Street Protestors Chanting ‘Fox News Lies’ — Fox News weekend host Geraldo Rivera went to Zucotti Park this weekend toreport on the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that has been going on for a number weeks and host his eponymous show remotely.

Discussion: The Wrap, Erik Wemple, Capital New York, The New York Observer, Forbes, Future of Journalism, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Link by Link: Pastebin Helps Occupy Wall Street Spread the Word — A STRENGTH of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement has been its flexible organization and nondoctrinaire agenda: “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”

Discussion: CNBC, The Raw Story, NYConvergence.com, The Huffington Post, Betabeat, Forbes, Poynter, Boing Boing and Runnin' Scared

Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:

Occupy Wall Street coverage reveals some financial journalists still mired in Wall Street culture — The first story on the first show of CNBC anchor-turned CNN star Erin Burnett's new series OutFront was a snarky put-down of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Discussion: Mediaite

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:
FED UP WITH WEAK REPORTING ON OCCUPY WALL STREET, THIS GUY WENT DOWN THERE AND DID THE JOB HIMSELF

Discussion: The New York Observer and Brooklyn Mutt

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Jessie LaGreca, Occupy Wall Street Protester, On ‘This Week’: Media Has Failed Working Class People

Discussion: Daily Kos, Runnin' Scared and The New York Observer

David Carr / New York Times:
A Protest's Ink-Stained Fingers

Discussion: Chickaboomer, Mashable! and Credit.com News + Advice

Guardian:

An experiment in opening up the Guardian's news coverage — Help shape the Guardian's news coverage by talking to editors and reporters about upcoming stories as we work on them — We often report big breaking stories as they happen, but have you ever wondered what stories we're working on - and what's about to drop?

Discussion: 10,000 Words, Mashable!, Rhetorica, Press Gazette, Magforum, Poynter and Jon Slattery

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to newspapers: Let your readers inside the wall — The Guardian, the U.K. newspaper that has been one of the biggest mainstream-media champions of a “digital first” approach and a proponent of “crowdsourcing” the news, says it's now going to experiment with allowing readers to help decide what news to cover.

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Guardian

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Netflix, in Reversal, Will Keep Its Services Together — Updated — The New Coke experiment lasted less than three months. Qwikster did not even make it make it out of the bottle. — In a swift reversal, Netflix said Monday that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail …

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:

Conservative Writer Admits ‘Infiltrating’ 99 Percent Movement To ‘Mock And Undermine’ It — Museum guards warn off demonstrators from entrance (AP) — An assistant editor with a right-wing magazine admitted in a column Saturday evening to posing as part of the 99 Percent Movement in D.C. “in order to mock and undermine” it.

Discussion: CJR, Business Insider, cgrapski's FDL blog, The Week, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Editors Weblog, Gawker, cgrapski's FDL blog, The Raw Story, Lake County News Sun and Boing Boing

TBD:
Pepper-sprayed provocateur Patrick Howley: Does he really exist?

Discussion: Gawker, Guardian, On Media's Blog and New York Magazine

Katie Feola / Adweek:

News Corp. Shareholders Advised to Oust Rupert Murdoch — Another top independent proxy advisory service is recommending News Corp. investors take a hard line with their voting shares at the upcoming annual meeting—and this time, Rupert Murdoch is the target.

Discussion: Bloomberg and Guardian

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Keller on public editors: ‘Even proctology has its good results’ — In an hourlong-plus conversation with Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, Bill Keller acknowledged he's still making the transition to former New York Times executive editor: … Keller, who reads the paper in print and on his iPad …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

For Magazines, the Recession Is Back — After a strong first half of 2011, ad spending in magazines fell back on its face in the third quarter, according to official tallies by the Publishers Information Bureau. Total advertising pages for the industry fell 5.6% in the third quarter versus …

Discussion: Folio, MPA, paidContent and FishbowlNY

Felix Salmon:

How the New Yorker monetizes old content — I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from its back issues. — It started* with “At the Ballpark”, an iPad-only collection of New Yorker baseball writing from 1929 to 2011 …

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Piers Morgan Isn't Sleeping Well — CNN's new Larry King made his name in the scandal-chasing, privacy-invading British tabloid gutter. He's now ascended to cable-news royalty, though his past is casting a shadow over the coronation. — Piers Morgan used to have anxiety dreams about Rupert Murdoch.

Discussion: TVNewser and The Huffington Post

MediaShift:

Students Go Old School, Create Newspaper with Typewriters, Xactos, Film Cameras — Education content is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate …

Discussion: BusinessJournalism.org … and Future of Journalism

David Pakman:

The media knowledge gap — During a recent publicity trip to Los Angeles, I confirmed that independent non-corporate media is alive and well in the United States ... kind of. My visits to The Young Turks, several KPFK/Pacifica radio shows and other local Los Angeles media brought in more website traffic …

Discussion: FishbowlLA

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

TV and Film, From Condé Nast — LOS ANGELES — Condé Nast is coming to Hollywood. — The magazine publisher's biggest titles, especially Vogue and Vanity Fair, have long been hardwired into the movie capital. But Condé Nast as a company has been notably absent …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, AdAge, Publishing Executive …, Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post, Adweek, Multichannel, FishbowlNY, paidContent and The New York Observer

James Robinson / Guardian:

News International donates £2.8m to charity from final edition of News of the World — News of the World's final edition - which sold 3.8m - will benefit charities including Barnardo's and Forces Children's Trust — News International will donate £2.8m from the sale …

Discussion: Media Diary and The Huffington Post

Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:

Secret Orders Target Email — The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Techdirt, Digits, Threat Level, Boing Boing, Mashable!, @wikileaks, @csoghoian, CNN, Free Press, msnbc.com, Agence France Presse, The Daily Caller, The New York Observer and Fast Company

Patrick Smith / themediabriefing.com:

Huffington Post UK editor: 'We're not in competition with newspaper websites' — It might have one billion monthly page views but The Huffington Post isn't going after your traffic, it wants to work with you. At least that's the message from the editor of the blogging network's UK outpost Carla Busazi …

David Kaplan / paidContent:UK:
HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition

Discussion: Poynter, Associated Press, Press Gazette, Agence France Presse, Business Wire, Softpedia News, The New York Observer, On Media's Blog and TechCrunch

Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:

Google's Blog Strategist and Manager, Karen Wickre, Departs After Nine Years — In an announcement fittingly posted on her own blog, Karen Wickre, Google's senior manager of global communications & public affairs, says she has left the company. Wickre launched and masterminded …

Discussion: KVOX