Mediagazer: Idaho newspaper publishes prominent fact-check of senator's press release (Steve Myers/Poynter)

8:25 AM ET, October 12, 2011

Top News:

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry seminar on phone hacking and media standards - live — Full coverage of the third seminar in the inquiry into media standards and ethics where today's star turns include Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail, Sly Bailey of Trinity Mirror and former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie

Discussion: Press Gazette, @jamesro47 and @benfenton

James Robinson / Guardian:

Daily Mail to launch corrections column — Editor-in-chief Paul Dacre tells Leveson inquiry column will run on page 2, and backs press self-regulation through the PCC — The Daily Mail will introduce a corrections and clarifications column on page 2 of the paper next week, its editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, has revealed.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire wants ‘persecution’ by victims to stop

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: Les Hinton to give committee evidence via video link

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Adweek, FishbowlNY, Guardian, On Media's Blog and Journalism.co.uk

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
News Corp Fires Back At Attacks On Board Candidates And Compensation

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, Press Gazette, Reuters and Bloomberg

Wall Street Journal:

Publisher of WSJ Europe Resigns — LONDON—The Wall Street Journal Europe Tuesday said that its publisher, Andrew Langhoff, resigned after nearly three years in the post because of the company's “zero tolerance for even the appearance of a breach of ethical standards.”

Discussion: Guardian and @dansabbagh

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
WSJ Europe Publisher Quits Over Possible Perceived Impropriety

Discussion: Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, Poynter and Talking Biz News

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: WSJ Europe Chief Langhoff Resigns Over Ethical Concerns

Discussion: @edmundlee

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Gitlin: Media coverage of Occupy Wall Street is predictably lazy, but likely to improve — Ask Todd Gitlin what stands out about the media's coverage of Occupy Wall Street, and he'll tell you: “Its predictability. The laziness. The knee-jerk preconceptions.”

Discussion: Mediaite, The New York Observer, Media Matters for America, Columbia University … and Forbes

Paul Krugman:

Why I'm Not In Zuccotti Park — Some readers have been asking me to go make a speech at one of the OWS demonstrations. If you think about it, however, you'll see why I can't. — I've been granted the enormous privilege of expounding my own views twice a week in the world's greatest newspaper.

Discussion: CNN, thenation.com/blogs/180 and Metropolis

Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes

Discussion: RBR, New York Magazine, Company Town, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Capital New York, Gannett Blog, Future of Journalism and Latest from Crain's …

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

7 keys to managing a great social media news team — As news organizations embrace Twitter and Facebook to distribute stories and engage their audiences, many have decided social media is no longer a one-person job. — Effective social media use now requires that you post and monitor almost …

CNET News:

How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal — The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday. — Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont …

Discussion: SlashGear and Threat Level, more at Techmeme »

James Isabel / The APPera:

iOS 5 Release Date News: Magazines Start Showing Up In NewsStand — In a few hours, Apple will finally unleash iOS 5 publicly to the world. One of the new features is a new app called NewsStand in which you can purchase and read digital magazines. For those in beta like me, you should now be able to see some magazines pop up.

Discussion: Business Insider

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Night owls read news on tablets, as mobile overtakes computer for at-home browsing — A new report from comScore shows nearly three out of five tablet owners (58 percent) consume news on their tablets at least occasionally. Twenty-two percent do so almost daily.

Discussion: Garcia Media

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead — The number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps for the iPhone and iPad continues to grow, and even some smaller regional newspapers are throwing up walls to try to protect their print subscriptions.

Thanks:mathewi

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

AOL Wants To Be The AP For Online Video; Offers “Editors Room” For Video Embeds — The problem with online video is that producing the high-quality stuff at scale is expensive and difficult. But what if there was a place online that licensed decent videos and made it available to other sites?

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Ex-Gannett Reporter Shreds Publisher Over Dubow's $37 Million Parting Gift — It may not be sporting to compare other CEOs to Steve Jobs on a lot of levels but corporate pay and performance is fair game. With that as a measure, the $37 million severance package for Craig Dubow …

Discussion: Gannett Blog and Words & Ideas

Matt Stempeck / MediaShift Idea Lab:

What If We Had a Nutrition Label for the News? — Alisa Miller's TED Talk brilliantly illustrates what news industry observers have been warning for years: Our news diet is distorted. We get very little news about places outside the United States, and that amount dwindles further when we remove Iraq from the equation.

Discussion: Poynter and Knight Foundation

Steve Rubel / AdAge:

In Battle Between Social and Mainstream, Hybrid Media Will Be the Winner — Social-media marketing is getting boring — at least by itself. It still largely sits in a silo and therefore fails to realize its full potential. — Need proof? Put down your Kindle and head to your local bookstore.

Thanks:steverubel

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything — Gannett's MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the content will be deleted. The move comes as the company prepares for more difficult economic times …