Mediagazer: Metropolitan Police phone hacking squad investigating 300 million News International emails (@skynewsbreak)

7:50 AM ET, November 10, 2011

Top News:

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

Discussion: Company Town, Press Gazette, Future of Journalism, AllThingsD, Globe and Mail and Reuters

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.

Reuters:

James Murdoch turns on other execs in hacking probe — James Murdoch blamed other senior News Corp executives on Thursday for not telling him more about potential evidence of widespread phone-hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid that he oversaw.

@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.

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 …

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

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

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” …

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 …

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 …