Mediagazer: Netflix Outs Redesigned Android Tablet App, New iPad Version Hitting In A Few Weeks (Matt Burns/TechCrunch)

11:45 AM ET, November 15, 2011

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James Poniewozik / Time:

NYC Un-Occupies Wall Street, Manages the Media — New York City police in riot gear raided and cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park around 1 a.m. Tuesday. As it happened—coincidentally or not—this was past press time for local papers.

Discussion: Indecision Forever, Gizmodo, Mother Jones, New York Magazine and OccupyWallSt News

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site — As New York City police cleared the Occupy Wall Street campsite in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, many journalists were blocked from observing and interviewing protesters. Some called it a “media blackout” and said in interviews …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, City Room, New York Times, Gothamist and thenation.com/blogs/180

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Journalists arrested, roughed up as police clear Zuccotti Park of OWS protesters — Journalists said they were shut out and roughed up as the New York Police Department cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters in the early morning hours Tuesday.

Discussion: CJR, The New York Observer, Capital New York, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, Gawker, News: News blog, Boing Boing, The New Yorker Blog, Guardian and The Daily

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

NI: ‘No guarantees’ that hacking stopped after arrests — Rhodri Davies QC tells Leveson inquiry that News International can't guarantee phone hacking didn't continue after arrest and imprisonment of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire — Davies also told the inquiry that News International …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Guardian

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.

Discussion: New York Times

Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Phone-hacking inquiry deals with gremlins in the system

Discussion: Press Gazette

James Robinson / Guardian: NoW owner disputes 28 staff ordered hacking

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

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Publisher and Two Top Editors Are Out at Newsweek/Daily Beast

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

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Netflix Outs Redesigned Android Tablet App, New iPad Version Hitting In A Few Weeks — Netflix took to its blog this morning to announce a new look for its Android tablet app. Gone is the old beige and red scheme (finally). In its place is an immersive user interface that takes full advantage of cover art.

Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, mediabistro.com, The Official Netflix Blog, Business Insider, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Liliputing, PR Newswire and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

John Koblin / WWD:

New York Times Launches The Collection App — ALL IN ONE PLACE: The New York Times on Monday launched The Collection, an iPad app that will be a catchall for the paper's fashion and style content. The Collection app will be updated every day, and will draw in content from the paper's Styles desk …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Jon Slattery:

Editors say editorial staff down 29% since 2007 — A new Society of Editors' survey reveals that editorial staff numbers have fallen by 29% since 2007. — The survey of editors' attititudes by consultant Jim Chisholm says content generation staffing has fallen by 19% …

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

10 broadcast TV groups team with ConnecTV for second screen — In one of the largest social TV partnerships to date, ten local broadcast groups are announcing a partnership today with ConnecTV to power second-screen experiences in markets covering 76 million households.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Broadcasting & Cable and Company Town

The Hollywood Reporter:

Penn State Scandal: Advertisers Bail on ESPN Broadcast … In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that led to the recent firing of head coach Joe Paterno after his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse of children, at least six advertisers …

Discussion: Media Decoder, msnbc.com, Company Town and Forbes

Seth Abramovitch / Gawker:

Why Public Radio Host Warren Olney's Apology Wasn't Enough — On Friday, Gawker broke the story of a horrifically ill-conceived installment of Warren Olney's current affairs show on public radio, To The Point. Using the Jerry Sandusky child rape scandal as its jumping-off point …

Discussion: GLAAD and ThinkProgress

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Should The FCC Crack Down On TV Stations That Cooperate On News, Ad Sales, And Retransmission Deals? — We're starting to see some interesting filings at the FCC as it prepares to revamp media ownership rules — and that includes a letter sent today by a strange-bedfellows coalition of Dish Network …

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Newspapers' Digital Apostle — On Monday, we ran a story about John Paton, a long-time newspaper executive who thinks the problems with print media may be solved by printing less. The conventions of a news story require that a long conversation get boiled down to a few pithy quotes.

Discussion: LA Observed, News Innovation, Publishing Executive … and eMedia Vitals

Amelia Hill / Guardian:

BBC constrained by need to avoid political bias, admits Lord Patten — As Leveson inquiry starts, former Tory chairman says there are areas where corporation needs to be particularly careful — The BBC is unable to conduct investigations into some of the most important stories of the day …

Discussion: Press Gazette, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism and Guardian