Mediagazer: Can Mainstream and Ethnic Media Collaborate? (Rosa Ramirez/MediaShift)

10:30 PM ET, October 12, 2011

Top News:

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 …

Discussion: CJR, Media Decoder, Felix, Media Matters for America, ThinkProgress, Poynter, Jack Shafer, Globe and Mail, The New Republic, New Media Age, Charlie's Diary, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

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.

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: Capital New York, Salon.com, TVNewser, Multichannel and On Media's Blog

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 Wrap, The New York Observer, Forbes, Media Decoder, Rolling Stone, Dealbreaker, The New Republic, Gawker, Betabeat, The News About The News, Mediaite, Business Insider, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Paul Krugman

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

ProPublica's Pulitzer winners: Media did not understand the banking crisis — ProPublica — Following the Tenement Museum talk Eliot Spitzer moderated last night with Pulitzer-winning ProPublica reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein about the shady Wall Street practices that brought …

Discussion: The New York Observer, Forbes, Future of Journalism, Rolling Stone and Talking Biz News

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

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.

Discussion: Folio, Media Decoder, AdAge, Adweek, AdAge, Media & Entertainment, rbr.com and FishbowlNY

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

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, @benfenton, @benfenton and Guardian

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

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

James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post

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 …

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

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 L.A. Times Tech Blog

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: 10,000 Words, Loop21, Online Video News, NetNewsCheck Latest and the blip.tv blog

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 …

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

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 …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog and On Media's Blog

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, 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.

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: Poynter, mocoNews, GigaOM and Softpedia News

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