Mediagazer: The Big Lie of the Crisis, Called Out By the Press (Ryan Chittum/CJR)

5:40 AM ET, November 11, 2011

Top News:

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Romenesko resigns after 12 years at Poynter — After twelve years of blogging at Poynter, Jim Romenesko has submitted his resignation and I have accepted it. Jim has decided he's ready for a fresh start now — seven weeks before he was scheduled to become a part-time employee and start his own blog.

Discussion: CJR, @carr2n, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, @kevinpurdy and St. Petersburg Times

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Questions over Romenesko's attributions spur changes in writing, editing — Poynter.org works hard to meet the highest standards of journalism excellence, and I learned late Wednesday that we have not consistently met those standards. — A centerpiece of our editorial work has been the Romenesko blog …

Discussion: @cjr, American Journalism Review, @geneweingarten, Felix, 10,000 Words, paidContent, @jackshafer, @ckrewson, Melville House Books, @huffpostmedia, CJR, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Adweek, LA Observed and NetNewsCheck Latest

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Romenesko Leaves Poynter After Conflict Over Quotes — Sometimes you can follow rules right out the window. — That is the situation the Poynter Institute — an organization that teaches journalistic ethics and practices — finds itself in after scolding its most famous writer, Jim Romenesko …

Discussion: @romenesko

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter's “Romenesko+” — The “Romenesko” blog (launched in 1999!) was a one-man shop, under the corporate parentage of the Poynter Institute, until fairly recently. It was quite successfully run by its founder, Jim Romenesko, though you could tell every once …

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, Snarkmarket, College Media Matters and Boing Boing

Erik Wemple:

Jim Romenesko's resignation, and a scooped reporter — Good on Erika Fry. — An assistant editor at Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Fry had kept an eye on journalism-industry aggregation site Poynter.org. She noticed some untoward things. And being an assistant editor at CJR, Fry set out to produce a story on the matter.

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Media blogger Jim Romenesko resigns from Poynter — A blogger who pioneered the practice of collecting news about journalism and the media industry resigned from his job Thursday after his editor publicly questioned his own journalism standards — in particular, whether he was giving proper attribution …

@romenesko:

Poynter has accepted my resignation. Thanks to all for the incredible support today. http://t.co/rUevIN7S

Felix Salmon:
Holding aggregators to journalistic standards

Discussion: The Buttry Diary

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Charlie Rose and Gayle King to Join ‘Early Show’ on CBS — Coming soon to CBS: Charlie Rose, Gayle King and a complete makeover of “The Early Show,” the network's low-rated morning television show. — The network is putting the finishing touches on a two-hour news show …

Discussion: Mixed Media, TVNewser, Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser

Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

Disney's Bob Iger Talks Earnings, Growth, Digital Deals — Just moments after Disney reported better-than expected results I sat down with CEO Bob Iger to hear his outlook. — Strength at ESPN and stronger advertising sent the Media Networks revenue higher than expected …

Discussion: paidContent and Company Town

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

NBC Sports Taps Ross Greenburg to Produce Docs — Former HBO Sports president's first project to debut Jan. 2 — Former HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg has been hired by NBC Sports Group to produce sports documentaries for the new NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus), Golf Channel and NBC.

Discussion: Multichannel and rbr.com

C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Jekyll and Hyde problem: What are journalists, and their institutions, for? — Jay Rosen, in his 1999 book What Are Journalists For?, shares a story which I think is of vital importance for those trying to understand the debate about “news gurus” kicked off this week by Dean Starkman in the Columbia Journalism Review.

Discussion: CJR, Editors Weblog, Reinventing the Newsroom and MediaShift

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

The Big Lie of the Crisis, Called Out By the Press — The false “banks didn't do it” meme takes hold on the right, as Romney showed last night — At CNBC's GOP debate last night, Mitt Romney showed that he, like Michael Bloomberg, buys into the Big Lie of the financial crisis …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and New York Times

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Viacom Reports 33 Percent Gain in Profit — A robust television advertising market, climbing cable fees and box office sales from “Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” helped bolster Viacom's profit 33 percent in the quarter that ended in September. — The company, which owns MTV Networks …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, rbr.com, Guardian, Home Media Magazine, MediaFile and Multichannel

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom, Nielsen Investigating ‘Inexplicable’ Nickelodeon Ratings Drop

Discussion: Company Town

Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:

Judge Rules Feds Can Have WikiLeaks Associates' Twitter Data — Jacob Appelbaum speaks on behalf of WikiLeaks at The Next Hope conference in New York City in July 2010. (Courtesy Cosmiclint/Flickr) — The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current …

Discussion: The Firewall, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

James Robinson / Guardian:

James Murdoch claims truth about phone-hacking was hidden from him — War of words erupts as two ex-News of the World executives, Colin Myler and Tom Crone, refuse to take the blame — James Murdoch was embroiled in a rancorous war of words with two of his former senior News of the World executives …

Discussion: Media Matters for America and The New York Observer

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Can you really believe James Murdoch's hacking story?

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, Press Gazette, Telegraph and Sky News

ESPN Poynter Review Project:

ESPN stumbles with Penn State coverage — ESPN was slow this week to grasp the full implications of the recent criminal indictments at Penn State University. — On Saturday, news broke that a grand jury had charged former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky with 40 criminal counts …

Discussion: MediaPost, The News About The News, Poynter, Bleacher Report, Charles Apple and Mediaite

Eduardo J. Morales / Abandoned Couches: The secretive culture at Penn State is nothing new

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.

BBC: Police have 300 million News International emails