Mediagazer: Citi to Sell EMI Units for $4.1 Billion (Wall Street Journal)

12:05 PM ET, November 11, 2011

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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: Reflections of a Newsosaur, Media Nation, Media Decoder, @jeffjarvis, @pkafka, CJR, @carr2n, @kevinpurdy and @jayrosen_nyu

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: Free Press and @romenesko

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 …

Discussion: @mathewi and Gawker

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.

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, EdCone.com, St. Petersburg Times and Boing Boing

Erik Wemple:

Jim Romenesko and the case of the missing quote marks — Jim Romenesko will never be anything other than a hero of Web journalism to me. For what seems like the entire history of the form, Romenesko has been culling the work of media reporters and posting them to the Poynter.org site, complete with often-insightful summations.

Felix Salmon:
Holding aggregators to journalistic standards

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

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

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Questions over Romenesko's attributions spur changes in writing, editing

Wall Street Journal:

Citi to Sell EMI Units for $4.1 Billion — The protracted auction of EMI Group neared a conclusion Friday, with Citigroup Inc., owner of the storied British music company, selecting buyers for its publishing arm and recorded-music label—at a price that well exceeds many industry watchers' expectations.

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Guardian, Company Town, HyperVocal, Bloomberg, SlashGear, The Verge, Company Town and Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »

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: TVWeek.com, Company Town, The Corsair, The Wrap, Mixed Media, Washington Post, TVNewser, Mediaite, Deadline.com, TVNewser, Business Insider, Chickaboomer, The Huffington Post, TVSpy and Inside TV

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Logitech CEO: Google TV ‘cost us dearly,’ no Revue replacement coming — Yesterday, Logitech hosted an Analyst and Investor Day and during his remarks, CEO Guerrino De Luca pulled absolutely no punches in describing the “mistakes” the company made with its Logitech Revue Google TV set top box.

Discussion: CNET News, Forbes, VentureBeat, Electronista, GMSV, Fortune, Gizmodo UK, Mashable!, Jonny Evans's blog, Engadget, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Business Insider and parislemon, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Can A Twitter Account Be A Company Trade Secret? — There has been an ongoing tug-of-war between journalists and publishers over who gets to keep digital possessions after a break-up. The debate took a new twist this week after a court issued a ruling in the case of a tech reporter who walked …

Discussion: Betabeat, The Wall Blog, Technology & … and Noah Brier dot Com, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Texas newspaper begins printing Twitter, Facebook contacts with each story — The Monitor of McAllen, Texas, is turning reporters loose to act like real people on social networks, relaxing traditional concerns about objectivity and formality. — The paper, with a daily circulation …

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Regional press giants urged to give local news back — One of the UK's most experienced regional press journalists has urged the big four UK regional press publishers to return their hundreds of newspaper titles to local ownership. — Former editor of the Lincolnshire Echo …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

ABC: Copies transfer from Independent sees i score biggest increase — A transfer of bulk copies from the Independent to sister title i saw the compact daily storm ahead with the biggest increase across the board — The Independent's smaller sister title i recorded the biggest monthly increase …

Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

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: New York Times, The Firewall, Future of Journalism, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Boing Boing

Eduardo J. Morales / Abandoned Couches:

The secretive culture at Penn State is nothing new — I've been going back and forth in my mind whether to write this or not, there's already so much out there. But the mess happening in State College this week hits me close to home, as 16 years ago I worked as the lead Penn State football writer …