Mediagazer: EdgeCast Network Goes Down, Takes The Best Of The Internet With It (Matt Lynley/Business Insider)

9:35 AM ET, November 9, 2011

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Andrew Crook / Crikey:

Farewell Big Harto: News Ltd CEO John Hartigan resigns — Rupert Murdoch has delivered a savage verdict on the health of his Australian operation, with veteran News Ltd CEO John Hartigan stepping aside and Rupert taking the company's chairmanship for himself.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Murdoch's Aussie boss steps down — Rupert Murdoch has lost one of his most loyal and effective newspaper executives. John Hartigan, chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Australian division, News Limited, is stepping down. — In making the announcement today …

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, mUmBRELLA and TheAustralian

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Fox News to use Google+ Hangouts for GOP candidate interviews — Fox News anchor Bret Baier will use Google+ Hangouts (group video chats) to moderate live discussions with each of the Republican presidential candidates and members of the public. First up is Mitt Romney on Nov. 15, to be followed by others later.

Discussion: Special Report, The Next Web and NewscastStudio Blog

Maggie Haberman / Politico:

Cain aide wrongly insists they've ‘confirmed’ accuser's son works for POLITICO — Herman Cain campaign manager Mark Block, in an appearance with Sean Hannity on Fox News just now, insisted that a relative of the second woman to publicly accuse the candidate of sexual harassment in the 1990s works at POLITICO.

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Mediaite, CNN, Business Insider, Gawker and The Daily

Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Why did journalists act as a pack in withholding names of Herman Cain's accusers?

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Times, Forbes, Motherlode, The Caucus, NetNewsCheck Latest and Business Insider

Julie Moos / Poynter:
The Daily names original Herman Cain accuser, other news orgs follow

Discussion: Mediaite, Media Matters for America, USA Today, Guardian, The Daily, New York Post, The Daily Caller, nation.foxnews.com, Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, The Huffington Post and Media Diary

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News of the World paid me to follow 90 people, claims private detective — Former policeman says he surveilled figures including Prince William and the parents of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe — A private detective has claimed that the News of the World paid him to target more than 90 people …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Digital Spy, BBC, New York Times and Business Insider

fleet street fox:

Hacks will be Hacks — JOURNALISTS will ask you questions. We will take your picture, ring your office and your home, we will double-check what you say. — We will knock on your door, keep tabs on you, and stick our noses where they're not wanted. — Sometimes people take money …

Stephen Mangan / Reuters:

Endemol set to reject prospective bidders: report — (Reuters) - Endemol, the debt-burdened Dutch TV production company, and its lenders are set to rebuff offers from Time Warner (TWX.N) and others for the group, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. — The newspaper cited people familiar …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
RTL eyes up possible Endemol bid

Discussion: @edmundlee

Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

Post Roast: Jennifer Rubin's retweet — Is a news organization responsible for what its journalists put out on Twitter? And what if those journalists are opinion writers? Those questions came up in October when The Post's Right Turn opinion blogger, Jennifer Rubin, retweeted a controversial tweet …

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

AOL Doubles Down On Its Editions iPad Magazine With UK And Canada Versions — AOL's push into iPad news aggregation—to compete with the likes of Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, Yahoo's Livestand and others—is being taken up a notch today, with the launch of the AOL Editions magazine app in the UK and Canada.

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

EdgeCast Network Goes Down, Takes The Best Of The Internet With It — Another glitch in the system — this time, content delivery network EdgeCast ran into problems this morning, bringing down several popular websites. — Content delivery sites host static content on a site like images and formatting files.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Gone in a Flash: How Adobe's abandonment of Flash for mobile devices impacts news orgs — Jason Perlow at ZDNet broke a pretty big story overnight: Adobe is abandoning development of the mobile version of Flash Player. As the text of the announcement Perlow obtained has it:

Discussion: Forbes and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »

Adam B. Ellick / New York Times:

A Calm Guide to Afghan Chaos Moves On — The New York Times lost its longest-tenured journalist in Afghanistan in October. While foreign reporters rotate in and out of the country, Waheed Abdul Wafa was a perennial mainstay, dedicating his life to telling stories about a war that the rest …

MediaShift:

Do the Math! How Reporters Squandered the School Loans Story — When President Obama announced his school loan relief plan at the University of Colorado, Denver, a few weeks ago, the mainstream media's coverage followed three predictable trajectories that, for the most part …

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

The problem with retweets & how journalists can solve it — Every so often a journalist draws criticism for something he retweeted. And whether that criticism is justified or not, it discourages some journalists from using Twitter effectively. — News organizations respond with policies urging staff to be careful.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter and journalism: It shouldn't be that complicated

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Barnes & Noble Urges U.S. Regulators to Probe Microsoft on Mobile Patents — Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) asked U.S. regulators to investigate whether Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) seeks to monopolize the mobile-device market by demanding patent royalties on electronics running on Google Inc.'s Android operating system.

Discussion: SlashGear, GeekWire and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Craig Silverman / Regret the Error:

HuffPost removes, apologizes for 'Who's Got The Tranny Look?' poll — After receiving complaints from members of the gay and transgendered community, The Huffington Post removed a poll from its website that asked readers to vote on who has more of a “Tranny Look” between Sofia Vergara and Blake Liveley.

Discussion: Equality Matters and GLAAD

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Adobe ‘Restructures,’ Eliminates 750 Jobs In North America And Europe — We've been hearing rumors of Adobe layoffs all day, and the company just released a statement announcing that it is ‘restructuring’ its business, which will result in the elimination of 750 jobs in North America and Europe.

Discussion: The Verge, Adobe, Business Wire, Fortune, VentureBeat, Forbes and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Steve Jobs May Be Time's First Dead Person of the Year — For all the hosannas he elicited, Steve Jobs was never named Time magazine's Person of the Year, a snub that rankled him considerably. Now that he's dead, he may finally win the distinction that eluded him in life.

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer and Forbes

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Political Ad Spending Helps Drive a Consolidation of Local TV Stations — A period of consolidation is under way in local television — and with it, a renewed debate about the implications of merger and acquisition activity on the industry. — A torrent of deals began in September …

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:UK:

Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million — E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will continue to expand in the U.S., while growing its international market share through Rakuten.

Discussion: Canada NewsWire Group, VentureBeat, CNET News, VatorNews, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, GalleyCat and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

NY Daily News Layoffs Massacre Continues: Two More Shown The Door, Bringing Total Count to 16 — The bad news keeps coming at the New York Daily News. Another two staffers have been let go, and the rumor is that there are more to come. We've received word that Michael Bowers …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Phone hacking: Tom Crone admits ‘incorrect’ evidence — In response to a letter from the committee Crone insists the evidence he gave in September ‘was at the time my best recollection of the relevant events’ but that some details were incorrect — Crone (right) has told the committee …

Discussion: paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian and The Huffington Post