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

12:30 PM ET, November 15, 2011

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site — 11:42 a.m. | Updated 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” …

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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.

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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.

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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: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Signs of broader hacking at Murdoch newspaper — * Police believe hacking continued until 2009 * Victim warned to change cellphone PIN number * Actress says her email was hacked in 2008 — (Reuters) - Evidence is growing that hacking of both telephone voice mail and email was pursued …

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

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

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 …

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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 …

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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.

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

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Jack Shafer:

Stop the Chelsea moaning; she's “somebody” — Allow me to be among the first working journalists to welcome Chelsea Clinton to the Fourth Estate. Clinton, as you probably read in this morning's New York Times, has taken a job with NBC News as a full-time special correspondent and will cover stories …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Chelsea Clinton's Hiring At NBC News Prompts Skeptical Reactions From Media

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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.

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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 …

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Ratings: ABC Dominates With Giffords Interview, Sandusky Leads ‘Rock Center’ To Ratings High — ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer's interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband former astronaut Mark Kelly was easily the top broadcast program at 10 PM according to Nielsen fast national ratings.

Discussion: FishbowlDC and rbr.com

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 …

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 …

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