Mediagazer: Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

9:30 AM ET, October 12, 2011

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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 — 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

Discussion: Deadline.com, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

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

Paul Krugman:
Why I'm Not In Zuccotti Park

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

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

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

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 »

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

Discussion: Street Fight

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