Mediagazer: The Daily Meal offers advertisers money-back guarantee (Steve Myers/Poynter)

10:10 AM ET, October 12, 2011

Top News:

Spitzer wants a petition to dump Geithner; has no plans for another TV show — Azi Paybarah. — Standing before a white lectern (and in front of a vintage advertisement for “hosiery and underwear") former governor and former CNN talk-show host Eliot Spitzer told a crowded room …

Discussion: Poynter and Forbes

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 and On Media's Blog

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, @jamesro47 and @benfenton

James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post

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

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Deadline.com

Steve Myers / Poynter:

The Daily Meal offers advertisers money-back guarantee — The Daily Meal is promising companies that buy $200,000 of ads over three months that they will get their money back if the ads don't result in a “statistically significant increase” in one of five measures of brand influence.

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

The Daily Beast and Amanda Knox's Trial By Media — Knox. — Over the past two years, while most American coverage of the Meredith Kercher murder case either played the story straight or raised questions about the competence of the Italian justice system, Tina Brown's The Daily Beast followed …

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.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NYConvergence.com, Thanks:mathewi

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

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Gitlin: Media coverage of Occupy Wall Street is predictably lazy, but likely to improve

Discussion: Rolling Stone, Forbes, Mediaite, RBR, The New York Observer, Columbia University …, Media Matters for America and NY Daily News

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?

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, Threat Level and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

Demand Media's Army Of Freelancers Is Furious After Getting Its Workload Cut Down — Demand Media's freelance writers are up in arms after Demand Media decided to slim the number of writing assignments it offers. — The company once known strictly as a “content farm,” is cleaning up is content …

Josh Stearns / @jcstearns:

In my new update, tracking journalist arrests at #occupy protests http://t.co/Rx4zqCJF reporter @bobplain shows the marks from his handcuffs

Fred Schruers / The Wrap:

Conde Nast's New Mogul Dawn Ostroff: Forget Cable, Digital Is the Future — Conde Nast's new president of entertainment Dawn Ostroff saw the potential in cable TV before many of her peers. Nowadays, she's excited about the digital future. — In an interview with TheWrap …

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

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Paywalls Spread To College Newspapers — Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons—and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing national and local newspapers in many ways, it's probably never too early for a crash course in revenue models.

Discussion: Poynter and Knight Foundation

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, MediaVidea and Knight Foundation