Mediagazer: James Murdoch Denies Misleading Parliamentary Panel (New York Times)

9:20 AM ET, November 10, 2011

Top News:

James Murdoch refuses to rule out closing the Sun — Appearing before MPs today, the News International chairman did not rule out closing the publisher's flagship tabloid if allegations of phone hacking at the title are proven — James Murdoch's comment follows the arrest of a senior reporter at the Sun …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette and The Independent

New York Times:

James Murdoch Denies Misleading Parliamentary Panel — LONDON — James Murdoch, News Corporation's deputy chief operating officer and the younger son of its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, returned to a parliamentary inquiry into the phone-hacking affair convulsing his company on Thursday …

Sky News:

James Murdoch: I Wasn't Shown Key Email — James Murdoch has insisted he was not made aware of the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World back in 2008. — The executive chairman of News International told MPs he was never shown a crucial email revealing the practice at the paper was more widespread.

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian and Globe and Mail

The Independent:

Met offers NOTW journalist a lifeline: turn supergrass against paper and you'll go free — The former chief reporter of the News of the World has been approached by Scotland Yard to give potentially vital evidence in the phone hacking scandal against his former employer.

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 …

@skynewsbreak:

Metropolitan Police phone hacking squad investigating 300 million News International emails

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.

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.”

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

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 …