Mediagazer: Is The Daily About To Lose Its Best Investigative Reporter (And A Huge Booster)? (Noah Davis/Business Insider)

1:50 PM ET, October 12, 2011

Top News:

Kelvin MacKenzie / London Evening Standard:

I only checked the source of one story when I was Sun editor... and that landed me with £1m bill for Elton libel — So where is David Cameron today? Where is our great Prime Minister who ordered this ludicrous inquiry? — After all, the only reason we are all here is due to one man's action …

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian, @benfenton and @benfenton

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: Editor's Blog, Journalism.co.uk, @jamesro47, @jamesro47, @benfenton and Press Gazette

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

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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: The New York Observer, Forbes, Mediaite, Business Insider, The Wrap, Poynter, Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post, Columbia University …, Media Matters for America and Poynter

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

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive — Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to help boost sales figures — One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries …

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

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

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why floods couldn't break through Pennsylvania paywall, while New York Times created leaks in theirs — Newspapers spend a lot of time and energy erecting website paywalls, but are they thinking enough about when to take them down? — Even if a publisher commits to a paywall …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Homicide Watch D.C. uses clues in site search queries to ID homicide victim — Laura Amico, editor of Homicide Watch D.C., describes how she used site analytics to identify a homicide victim — again. Early Sunday morning, she saw a police department news alert stating that a juvenile male had been killed.

Discussion: One Reporter's Notebook

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: PC Magazine, SlashGear, The Consumerist, Threat Level and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

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.

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?

Discussion: Online Video News

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

The iOS Newsstand Is Open For Business — Folks who have upgraded to iOS 5 will note that the iOS Newsstand is now running and available as a standalone app. If you've already downloaded any of Apple's official magazines - most Conde Nast titles are using Apple's own service, for example …

Discussion: Softpedia News

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

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

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

Is The Daily About To Lose Its Best Investigative Reporter (And A Huge Booster)? — The Daily, which has lost Sasha Frere-Jones and Joshua Hersh in recent months, could be about to lose another big name. — We hear from a source that investigative reporter Josh Bernstein is being recruited by “several major news networks.”

The Huffington Post:

Jennifer Granholm Gets Current TV Show … Video , Current TV , Jennifer Granholm , Election Coverage , Jennifer Granholm Current Tv , Media News — Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is getting her own show on Current TV. — The network announced the show on Wednesday.

Chris Ariens / TVSpy:

WFTS Anchor & Health Reporter Linda Hurtado Shares Story of Breast Cancer Diagnosis — WFTS Tampa Bay anchor and health reporter Linda Hurtado always knew she was at risk of getting breast cancer. The disease took her mother's life in 1995, not long after Hurtado became an anchor at the ABC affiliate.

J. Harry Jones / SignOnSanDiego.com:

Borrego Sun editor killed in murder-suicide — BORREGO SPRINGS — The voice of Borrego Springs has died, the apparent victim of a murder-suicide at the hands of her estranged husband, and the small, unincorporated desert community is reeling. — Judy Winter Meier, 61 …

Discussion: FishbowlLA