Mediagazer: Ofcom dismisses PLO complaint against Al Jazeera English (Joel Gunter/Journalism.co.uk)

8:40 AM ET, October 11, 2011

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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: Forbes, The Raw Story, Future of Journalism, NYConvergence.com, The Huffington Post, Betabeat, Poynter and Boing Boing

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

Deggans / St. Petersburg Times: Occupy Wall Street coverage reveals some financial journalists still mired in Wall Street culture

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

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

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Runnin' Scared and The New York Observer

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

Discussion: Breaking Copy, Garcia Media, Mashable! and Chickaboomer

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: FleetStreetBlues, Mashable!, 10,000 Words, Rhetorica, Magforum, Press Gazette and Poynter

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

MediaMonkey / Guardian:
Telegraph correspondent launches Twitter offensive | Media Monkey

Discussion: @benfenton

James Hibberd / Inside TV:

Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE — Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host. The network is teaming with NBC's Peacock Productions for iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, a one-hour special.

Discussion: Fast Company, Softpedia News, TUAW, Business Insider and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg: Jobs's Death Leaves Hollywood Without Tech Envoy

Gianna Caserta / WALB-TV:

Political blog buys The Albany Journal — A political blog is buying an Albany newspaper. — In what appears to be a first of its kind move, Knighton Media, Inc. signed a contract to purchase the community-based paper The Albany Journal. — Knighton is a company formed to run the Albany political blog called Laws-N-Sausages.

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 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and bookforum.com

Paul Hamilos / @paulhamilos:

The best Irish reporter working for the Guardian in Pakistan @declanwalsh is leaving us for the NYT. Oh, Declan! How could you do it?

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Ofcom dismisses PLO complaint against Al Jazeera English — Complaint made by negotiator on behalf of Palestinian Liberation Authority not upheld by regulator, which rules Al Jazeera English programmes were fair and in the public interest — Complaint against Al Jazeera's English-language channel …

Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs — Say for this for UltraViolet: It actually launched. — When word first got out that most of Hollywood and the tech industry was working on a “Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney” …

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

The Shorter-Form Journal — The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch — Story length in journalism by itself doesn't mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned long. — But, on the other hand, without going long, it's hard to achieve greatness.

Discussion: Poynter

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

Boston Globe Takes Heat for Blowing ‘Whitey’ Bulger Informant's Cover* — For anyone who followed the unlikely capture of James “Whitey” Bulger in Santa Monica, Sunday's front page Boston Globe feature article was a must-read, full of new details about the gangster's life on the lam.

Discussion: L.A. NOW, LAist and newsfeed.time.com

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: cgrapski's FDL blog, CJR, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Editors Weblog and Washington Post

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

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

Steve Yelvington / Yelvington's Blog:

Getting ‘digital first’ right in the ‘newsroom’ — “Digital First!” is a great battle cry, and thank you, John Paton, for giving it to us all. It is pure leadership, a flag planted forward declaring that newspapers now see print as the past and digital as the present and future.

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism

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: WWD Media Headlines, MPA, Folio, FishbowlNY and paidContent

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Networks Reportedly Go To Extremes For Amanda Knox Interview — Network producers have reportedly resorted to babysitting Amanda Knox's half-sisters in an attempt to score exclusive interviews with now-freed American exchange student, according to the New York Post.

Discussion: The News About The News and New York Times

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

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

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 and Kirk LaPointe's …

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: Press Gazette, Media Diary and The Huffington Post