Mediagazer: Reporters Suit Up, Visit Fukushima Nuclear Plant (David Carr/New York Times)

7:15 AM ET, November 15, 2011

Top News:

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.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Media & Entertainment, New York Times, FishbowlNY and Media Decoder

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

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: News International, Telegraph and Mail evidence - live — News International is querying the claim that 28 News of the World journalists were involved in phone-hacking.

Alan Cowell / New York Times:
British Judge Investigates Journalistic Practices

Discussion: Future of Journalism, @jamesro47 and Guardian

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Mensch seeks ‘full disclosure’ over surveillance — Select committee to meet to discuss claims that its members were tailed by News International investigators in 2009 — MPs on the select committee investigating phone hacking will meet on Tuesday to discuss what action it will take over allegations …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Amelia Hill / Guardian:
BBC constrained by need to avoid political bias, admits Lord Patten

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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

Discussion: Media Matters for America and Business Insider

Tom Watson MP:
Society of Editors Conference 2011 #soe11

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

Jessica Davies / New Media Age:

Harper Collins to explore selling interactive ad space in factual books — Book publisher Harper Collins is making its first foray into interactive online advertising as it prepares to ramp up its digital offering. — The publisher will explore interactive and contextual ad formats …

Discussion: TeleRead

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Thomson Reuters Names ‘Top 100 Global Innovators’ - Now Guess Who's Missing — Thomson Reuters this morning announced that it has identified “the world's 100 most innovative organizations today” through a proprietary program. — I wouldn't normally give such a list much attention …

Discussion: PR Newswire

CJR:

What About Modesto? — The digital-news parade threatens to pass some communities by — In Modesto, California, the need for news far exceeds the current supply. A city of 200,000 with one midsized newspaper, a large Hispanic population, 16 percent unemployment, and the second-highest rate …

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Huffington Post Tech Wizard Paul Berry Stepping Back at AOL — If the Huffington Post was worth the $315 million AOL paid to acquire it, it's in large measure because of the second-to-none technology built into the platform,which is hyper responsive to the needs of editors and the preferences of users.

Discussion: AllThingsD

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

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: Jack Shafer, Guardian, The Week, Erik Wemple, Forbes, entertainment.time.com, Media Decoder, St. Petersburg Times, The Corsair, Poynter and New York Times

D.M. Levine / Adweek:

Beyond Cat Videos — Robert Kyncl and Tom Pickett are not your traditional media moguls. Neither acts like a conventional Old Hollywood power player—the fist-pounding Ari Emanuel, the super-tanned Robert Evans. But if the highest aspirations of their employers at Google are borne out …

Felix Salmon / Epicenter:

The Future of Online Advertising — I gave a talk last Thursday at the AppNexus Summit in front of a few hundred digital advertising types. The first part of the talk was a macro overview, but when the Q&A session started, all that anybody wanted to talk about was my take on online media.

David Carr / New York Times:

Reporters Suit Up, Visit Fukushima Nuclear Plant — David Guttenfelder/Associated Press, via Bloomberg — Members of the working press in protective suits during their visit to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on Saturday. — The Japanese government has begun allowing reporters …

Discussion: Softpedia News

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Hmmm...Greta Gets Exclusive With Gloria Cain — The media-shy wife of Herman Cain, Gloria, will sit down with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren tonight for her first major interview since her husband jumped into the Presidential race. Gloria Cain has been absent from Mr. Cain's side as he continues …

Discussion: TVNewser, Gawker, TVSpy and Mediaite

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, Bloomberg, Deadline.com, Company Town, Future of Journalism and I Want Media

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

Discussion: ABC News

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.”