Mediagazer: Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think (Steven Levy/Wired)

7:20 PM ET, November 14, 2011

Top News:

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Publisher and Two Top Editors Are Out at Newsweek/Daily Beast — The publisher and managing editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast are leaving their jobs, two high-level departures that signal distress inside the company as it struggles to turn its fortunes around.

Discussion: MinOnline, @jwpetersnyt, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, paidContent, Adweek, The New York Observer, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Folio and FishbowlNY

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

NewsBeast Brings in Mark Miller in Shakeup — NewsBeast has brought back longtime Newsweek vet Mark Miller to oversee editorial operations, signaling continued upheaval as the magazine-news site combo struggles to win over readers and advertisers. — Miller is coming back to a newly created position of editorial operations director.

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Media & Entertainment, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Business Insider and Crikey

Adrian Croft / Reuters:

James Murdoch “kept in dark” on hacking: report — (Reuters) - News Corp's James Murdoch was “kept in the dark” about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World by his subordinates who tried to manage the problem, the newspaper's former chief reporter said on Monday.

Discussion: Guardian, Future of Journalism and I Want Media

Alan Cowell / New York Times:

British Judge Investigates Journalistic Practices — LONDON — After the phone hacking scandal that has seared its way through Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in this country, a senior British judge opened an inquiry on Monday into the way journalists operate and the elusive balance between press freedom and individual rights to privacy.

Discussion: Guardian and @jamesro47

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp.: Review in Australia Found No Evidence of Phone Hacking

Discussion: ABC News

James Robinson / paidContent:
Private Investigator's Notebooks Offer New Details In Phone Hacking Case

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Guardian, Press Gazette and The Huffington Post

Georgina Prodhan / Reuters: Press probe says more papers may have phone-hacked

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC — NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. — The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Chelsea Clinton's Hiring At NBC News Prompts Skeptical Reactions From Media — NEW YORK — Chelsea Clinton may have officially joined the media on Monday, but several journalists who covered the 2008 election remain skeptical about the press-averse former First Daughter entering their ranks.

Discussion: Guardian, Poynter and Forbes

Steven Levy / Wired:

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think — “What I'm about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we've been doing for 15 years.”

Discussion: MediaFile, The Verge, Engadget, New York Times, GeekWire, GigaOM, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Future of Journalism, Fortune, Gizmodo, Media Decoder and Wired, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Decides To Ship Kindle Fire And Kindle Touch Early

Discussion: CNET News, Amazon.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Kindle Fire, First Reviews: Hot Gadget Or Just Another Lukewarm Tablet?

Discussion: MediaPost, Forbes, Deadline.com, Amazon.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web, msnbc.com, ZDNet, paidContent:UK, PC Magazine, The New York Observer and Between the Lines Blog, more at Techmeme »

Tom Watson MP:

Society of Editors Conference 2011 #soe11 — I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend the conference today. — Roy Greenslade has just revealed that six months ago, members of the DCMS Select Committee were the targets of covert surveillance by private investigators and journalists working for News International.

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Journalism.co.uk, News Hounds and themediablog.typepad.com

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Casting light on the News of the World shadowing of MPs

Discussion: Media Matters for America and Business Insider

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Morning TV's Tabloid Turn — As CBS goes serious for sunrise, stars at rival networks grumble about the fluffy fare. — For three frustrating DECADES, CBS has been the biggest loser in the morning. Now, rather than trying to beat Today and Good Morning America at their own game, the network wants to change the rules.

Discussion: Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, TVNewser and Chickaboomer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media — Disney, which has been busy reorganizing its interactive group, is buying Babble Media, a New York-based parenting platform that features several hundred mom bloggers. — The entertainment giant declined …

Discussion: VatorNews, Company Town, rbr.com, Business Insider and paidContent

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNN iReport Gets Major Relaunch As a ‘Social Network for News’ — Since launching five years ago, CNN's iReport has become the gold standard when it comes to traditional media companies utilizing user-generated content. Thousands of videos, photos and stories that began as posts on the site have been featured on CNN's networks.

Discussion: NewscastStudio Blog, Future of Journalism and Lost Remote

Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:

MSNBCPOLITICO: A commanding presence for Politico on the left's favorite cable news channel — Has MSNBC opened a bureau in Arlington, Virginia? — Watch the assertively liberal cable news channel on an average day, and you're likely to see someone from Politico appearing on-screen …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, TVNewser and Big Journalism

Steve Myers / Poynter:

George Will: Wife's work on Rick Perry's campaign doesn't pose problem — Asked about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's election chances on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday, syndicated columnist George Will disclosed that his wife has joined the campaign, then proceeded to say that candidates can recover …

Discussion: Splice Today and The Politico

Publishers Weekly:

From Magazine To Book: ‘CJR’ Makes the Leap — On November 15, Columbia Journalism Review will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the premier magazines in its field. The recognition of that long legacy will also be marked by the beginning of a new venture for the journal: Columbia Journalism Review Books.

Discussion: CJR and The New York Observer