Mediagazer: Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage (Jesse Holcomb/Journalism.org)

3:00 AM ET, October 13, 2011

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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 …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

Dow Jones calls Guardian allegations of WSJ Europe circulation scheme ‘inflammatory’ — Dow Jones is refuting allegations by the Guardian that The Wall Street Journal Europe paid a third party, through other companies, to buy its newspapers as part of a scheme to boost its circulation.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jesse Holcomb / Journalism.org:

Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage — The economy reclaimed its perch at the top of the news agenda as the No. 1 story last week, largely driven by dramatically increasing media attention to the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. — Overall economic coverage accounted for 22% …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Capital New York, Salon.com, Washington Times, TVNewser, On Media's Blog and Multichannel

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Splashed across the front page of the local newspaper here on Tuesday was the story of a 24-year-old Occupy protester named Keith Cuesta. He was not in New York, where some have been living in a park near Wall Street …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Spitzer wants a petition to dump Geithner; has no plans for another TV show

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
ProPublica's Pulitzer winners: Media did not understand the banking crisis

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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

Reuters:

AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Forbes, CNET News and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Reader's Digest Parting Ways with Rachael Ray — Reader's Digest Association doesn't want to be in the Rachael Ray business anymore. — A month after replacing its CEO, the publisher just announced that it intends to sell Every Day with Rachael Ray, a cooking magazine launched five years ago in partnership with the TV host.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

The Next Big Media Technology: Paper? HP Thinks So — Eat your heart out, iPad. — This may come as a shock to some people, but not everyone's an early adopter. Even in the United States of America in the year 2011, there are still people who use candy bar phones, watch cathode ray TVs and buy compact discs.

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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

Rosa Ramirez / MediaShift:

Can Mainstream and Ethnic Media Collaborate? — While investigative collaborations are blossoming in newsrooms across the country, few are taking place between mainstream and niche media. As a result, news organizations could be missing the opportunity to reach a wider audience …

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: Media Diary, Guardian, @benfenton, Guardian and @benfenton

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry seminar on phone hacking and media standards - live

Discussion: Press Gazette, Digital Spy, @jamesro47, Jon Slattery, @jamesro47, @benfenton and Editor's Blog

James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post

Somini Sengupta / Bits:

Stanford Researcher Finds Lots of Leaky Web Sites — The Web is porous. Remarkable information trickles in from everywhere. It also sometimes spills out without its users knowing exactly where or how. — Take for instance these findings, released on Tuesday by computer scientists at Stanford University.

Discussion: Nextgov.com, Softpedia News, cyberlaw.stanford.edu and PC Magazine

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

‘Food & Wine’ to Translate ‘Top Chef’ Into Print — Can Food & Wine go where Food Network Magazine and Every Day With Rachael Ray have gone? In the latest effort to parlay a TV brand into print, Food & Wine will publish a 24-page section in its January issue called Top Chef Magazine.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

For The Towns With No Newspaper, Online Upstarts Try Filling A Gap — A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wales towns left without a local newspaper when Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) folded its Neath and Port Talbot Guardians in 2009.

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 …

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

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Bloomberg TV's First Debate A Home Run — There may be some argument over who was the winner of last night's Bloomberg/The Washington Post Republican Presidential Debate, but from a media perspective, one victor is crystal-clear: Bloomberg TV. Hosting their first-ever televised debate …

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Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal:

In Weather Forecasting, Expect High Pressure — Meteorologists Cope With Anxiety, Backlash When Calls Go Wrong, Even as Predictions Are More Accurate — Weatherman Jay Trobec has been giving the forecast to 90,000 viewers of his Sioux Falls, S.D., TV station for 14 years, and he is usually right.

Discussion: TVSpy and Poynter

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 …