Mediagazer: Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.99, adds ads (Kevin Sexton/The Verge)

4:45 PM ET, November 13, 2011

Top News:

Shoshana Walter / New York Times:

Occupy Oakland and News Media Coexist Uneasily — Immediately after a man was shot to death Thursday afternoon near the Occupy Oakland encampment, Randy Davis, a cameraman for KGO-TV, turned his lens on a group of protesters helping the victim. Then part of the crowd turned on him.

Discussion: The Nation

Kevin Sexton / The Verge:

Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.99, adds ads — The Kobo Touch e-reader will soon be available for $40 less thanks to a new version with Offers. Just like on Amazon's Kindle, ads will populate the lock screen and a sliver at the bottom of the homescreen.

Discussion: Gizmodo, The eBook Reader Blog, CNET News, The Digital Reader, Liliputing, TeleRead and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Kindle Fire: ‘Also, Barnes & Noble, We Will Have A Newsstand’ — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week that I have begun to imagine both devices snapping back and forth at each other like squabbling children.

Discussion: GigaOM, Future of Journalism, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, GeekWire and Business Wire, more at Techmeme »

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Sky News Deletes Tweet Of James Murdoch Arrest — UPDATE: The tweet that reported that James Murdoch has been arrested has now been deleted. — According to Sky News' Neal Mann, it's most likely the account was hacked. — Sky News reporter Mark White tweets

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, @fieldproducer, @skymarkwhite, @skymarkwhite, @skynewsbiz, @skynewspr, @paidcontent, @fleetstreetfox, @antderosa and @tcarmody

Stephen Wright / Daily Mail:

Hacking police find ‘bombshell’ emails: Now detectives may want to question James Murdoch — Police investigating phone-hacking at the News of the World have recovered a series of ‘bombshell’ emails which they believe takes the inquiry to ‘a new level’. — The emails were among tens …

Discussion: @afneil, @martin_hickman and Digital Spy

New York Times:

CNN Sets Off a Debate on Race and Technology — For nearly two weeks, a debate ignited by a CNN documentary has raged on the Internet about the obstacles to success in Silicon Valley and whether the technology industry is as meritocratic and as color-blind as it aspires to be.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Chickaboomer

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Bachmann Camp Accuses CBS News Of Media Bias After Accidentally Receiving Private E-Mail — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is crying foul after CBS' foreign policy debate yesterday, accusing the network of media bias because of an e-mail that indicated she would not be getting …

Discussion: CNN, Gawker, Mediaite, TVNewser and Los Angeles Times

Merrill Knox / TVNewser:

‘Now With Alex Wagner’ Debuts Monday on MSNBC — “Now with Alex Wagner,” the newest addition to the MSNBC daytime lineup, will debut on Monday, the network announced today. — Wagner's show will replace the 12pmET hour of “MSNBC Live” that has rotated fill-in anchors since Contessa Brewer's departure in August.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Guardian:

The Saturday interview: Wendi Murdoch — In her first interview since saving her husband from a foam pie, Wendi Murdoch talks about raising Rupert's children, phone-hacking and that impressive right hook — Wendi Deng Murdoch cuts a dainty figure. Four months after she made headlines around …

Eric Jackson / Tech and China:

The Business World Needs Fewer Journalists and More Opinions and Investigative Reporting — The other day in a post about Yahoo! (YHOO) I unloaded on some of the reporting that has gone on at large publications on the Yahoo “deal.” — I have to get a few other thoughts off my chest.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Erika Fry / CJR:

The Romenesko Saga — Some questions for Poynter about recent changes on its fabled site — Yesterday, Poynter's Julie Moos published a controversial post on the journalism institute's Romenesko+ blog, which she credited to my “sharp eye.” — Her post, which addressed “incomplete attribution” …

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Jack Shafer, @dangillmor, Poynter, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, Erik Wemple and paidContent

Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Poynter faculty respond to questions about Romenesko's practices, resignation

Discussion: College Media Matters, Kirk LaPointe's … and Journalism.co.uk

Michael Shapiro / CJR:

The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future — The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened? — 1. ‘It Was Written’ — Randall Keith and I are talking about the past when his boss, Dave Butler, slides open a glass door …

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism, Future Journalism Project and Poynter

Laurie Winer / Los Angeles Review of Books:

Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead — Since it seemed it couldn't get much worse, Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief James O'Shea decided to look on the bright side. It was 2007, and the newspaper had a new owner. He was Sam Zell, an iconoclast, as they call rich older men who ride motorcycles …