Mediagazer: Newspapers' Digital Apostle (David Carr/Media Decoder)

8:40 AM ET, November 15, 2011

Top News:

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.

Amelia Hill / Guardian:

Phone-hacking inquiry deals with gremlins in the system — Had hackers hijacked the hacking inquiry? It certainly helped shake the post-lunch torpor of court 73 of the royal courts of justice when David Sherborne QC leapt from his seat, more startled gazelle than lawyer …

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

Discussion: Guardian, Future of Journalism, Guardian and @jamesro47

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, The New York Observer, Mediaite, Folio, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, Poynter and Business Insider

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: NetNewsCheck Latest and Future of Journalism

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Mensch seeks ‘full disclosure’ over surveillance

Discussion: themediablog.typepad.com, Telegraph and Jon Slattery

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

Discussion: ABC News and Reuters

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Netflix Releases Redesigned Android Tablet App, 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: The Official Netflix Blog

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

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: Forbes and Wall Street Journal

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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.”