Mediagazer: James Murdoch's make or break day in parliament (Reuters)

James Murdoch's make or break day in parliament — (Reuters) - James Murdoch is about to face his day of reckoning. — The News Corp deputy chief operating officer will appear before a special committee of Britain's parliament on Thursday for a second round of questioning about a phone-hacking scandal …

Guardian:

Murdoch faces MPs - live coverage — Live coverage as the News Corp executive is questioned by the culture select committee for the second time over phone hacking — 10.14am: The House of Commons have upped the security this time to ensure there is no repeat of July's foam pie incident …

Discussion: The Independent

James Boylan / CJR:

Pulitzer's Magazine? Our founder reflects on CJR's roots — Here is the best and here is the worst story of the day. . . . Here is the wrong of the day; here is the injustice that needs to be righted; here is the best editorial; here is a brilliant paragraph …

Discussion: Columbia University … and 10,000 Words

David Haglund / Slate:

Are Front-Page Editorials on the Rise? — Today, The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Penn., published a front-page editorial arguing that, on account of the sexual abuse scandal that has recently come to light, Penn State president Graham Spanier must “step aside.”

Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:

An FBI director with a grudge — J. Edgar Hoover had it in for Jack Nelson from the moment the L.A. Times journalist arrived in Washington. The longtime FBI director was convinced that Nelson planned to write that he was homosexual. — J. Edgar Hoover, right, led the FBI for nearly 48 years, outlasting seven presidents.

Natalie Clarkson / Wannabe Hacks:

Student reporters vs. Local newspapers — As part of my degree, my class is expected to work as if we're part of a real life newsteam. Each week two people are given roles as online editors, the rest of the class work as reporters for the week, finding stories and writing them up …

Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

NBC's David Gregory apologizes for saying ‘no grand wizard’ in GOP — On NBC's “Today” this morning, David Gregory - the host of “Meet the Press” — was addressing the lack of Republican infrastructure that might encourage a beleaguered Herman Cain to leave the GOP presidential contest.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Erick's blog and RealClearPolitics Video Log

John Koblin / WWD:

The Three Musketeers of Condé Nast Ride Again

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

How Seattle journalist got school censorship scoop — Seattle area public schools will allow free speech and free press thanks to an alert journalist who spotted a hidden pending policy change. — This is a story about the value of good old-fashioned beat reporting that included pawing through boring-looking documents.

Discussion: KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound … and kuow.washington.edu

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Sources Say EMI Sale Will Split Company in Two — EMI, the storied music company that is home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay, is nearing a sale that would split the company in half. — After a four-month auction, Citigroup, which took control of EMI in February …

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

GateHouse Media CEO: ‘We need to become more than a newspaper company’ — GateHouse Media CEO Mike Reed unveiled Project Apple in September — an initiative that seeks “a turnaround just as impressive as Apple's.” (The newspaper chain recently reported a $5 million net loss for the third quarter.)

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Emily Brill / CJR:

The Blessings of Networks — Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman's “news gurus” argument — Dean Starkman's long read on ‘the news gurus’ in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the remarkable Ida Tarbell, a template for the modern investigative reporter, whose work in 1904 took on Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

Discussion: GigaOM and Emily Bell

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Regis May Be Going, but We'll Have Kelly for a While — Regis Philbin is leaving the daytime talk show “Live! with Regis and Kelly” later this month but his co-host, Kelly Ripa, is staying a while. — Disney-ABC Domestic Television confirmed on Wednesday that Ms. Ripa …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Inside TV and Deadline.com

Emily Witt / The New York Observer:

Anthony Bourdain Cooks the Books: He's Starting an Imprint, in Short Order — A former student of Gordon Lish trades chef's tongs, picks up editor's pencil — Anthony Bourdain knows how he can come off. The chef-turned-TV personality has written that it would be “entirely fair and appropriate” …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

For Amazon & Kindle, brick & mortar stores key to success — When it comes to tablets, it has so far been a one-tablet show. Apple's iPad has been and continues to be the dominant player. Amazon's Kindle Fire is being considered a legitimate contender and if Amazon's spin is to be believed …

Discussion: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Epicenter, Forbes, TeleRead, ReadWriteWeb, Amazon.com and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

Kimberly Potts / The Wrap:

Warren Littlefield: There'll Never Be Another Must-See TV Night of Programming — Warren Littlefield was NBC's entertainment chief during the network's long run as the home of Must See TV comedy on Thursday nights. — But he doesn't think there will ever be another Must See TV night …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google May Penalize Ad Heavy Pages — Ever encountered an ad-heavy page, where you struggle to find the actual content on that page? Google's looking at penalizing those in its search results. — The head of Google's web spam team, Matt Cutts, shared the news when speaking at the Pubcon conference today.

Discussion: SEO Book.com and WebProNews

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Journalists are the 99 percent too, says new Tumblr — A St. Petersburg Times reporter has riffed on the “We are the 99 Percent” Tumblr and created a Tumblr where journalists can tell their stories. “We are journalists. We are proud of what we do,” writes Emily Nipps.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Dylan Byers / The Politico:

Globe reporters put down a marker on Romney — If a candidate's hometown paper has one obligation, it's owning the coverage of their candidate. Four years ago, the Boston Globe owned Mitt Romney—most memorably with a seven-part series called “The Making of Mitt Romney.”

Discussion: GalleyCat

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Josh Kraushaar: ‘Profoundly irresponsible’ for Cain campaign to say he's related to sexual harassment accuser — Tuesday afternoon, as reporters started to spread the name of one of Herman Cain's accusers, they kept asking Josh Kraushaar, executive editor of National Journal Hotline, if he is related to Karen Kraushaar.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Kirk LaPointe's …, Media Matters for America, MarketShare, Forbes, Mediaite and Politico