Mediagazer: How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal (CNET News)

5:55 PM ET, October 12, 2011

Top News:

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, Betabeat, Gawker, Media Decoder, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Online, The News About The News, Mediaite, Poynter, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Columbia University …, Paul Krugman and Media Matters for America

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 and Talking Biz News

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

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Multichannel and TVNewser

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 …

Discussion: Media Decoder, The New York Observer, The New Republic, The Wrap, The Huffington Post and Charlie's Diary

Wall Street Journal:
Publisher of WSJ Europe Resigns

Discussion: Poynter, New York Magazine, New Media Age, @dansabbagh, Guardian, Talking Biz News, paidContent:UK and Bloomberg

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

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James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column

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

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: NetNewsCheck Latest and One Reporter's Notebook

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

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: NetNewsCheck Latest, Loop21 and Online Video News, 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

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, paidContent:UK, GigaOM and Softpedia News

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 …

Discussion: Mixed Media and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

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: On Media's Blog and The New Yorker Blog

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

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 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest

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: NYConvergence.com and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:mathewi

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.

Discussion: Adweek, TVNewser and On Media's Blog