Mediagazer: Leveson inquiry seminar on phone hacking and media standards

11:25 AM ET, October 12, 2011

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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: Mediaite, Business Insider, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer and Forbes

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

Paul Krugman:
Why I'm Not In Zuccotti Park

Discussion: Erik Wemple, CNN, The Huffington Post and thenation.com/blogs/180

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

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

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, Press Gazette, @dansabbagh, @jamesro47, @jamesro47 and @benfenton

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: @benfenton 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

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:

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.

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, @dansabbagh and paidContent:UK

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

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

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

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, The Consumerist, SlashGear and Threat Level, 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 …

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 …

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

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Naspers Targets LatAm, Asia, East Europe Online Investments — Naspers is a case study in media operator reinvention. Formerly just a South African newspaper publisher, the firm has steadily launched ISP, pay-TV and web news outfits. — But nowadays Naspers is becoming best known …

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