Mediagazer: Hugh Grant gives evidence

11:25 AM ET, November 21, 2011

Top News:

Hugh Grant gives evidence - live — • Hugh Grant has linked the Mail on Sunday to phone hacking — • He said mother of his baby has been ‘besieged’ by paparazzi — • Dowlers told of how they were given false hope Milly was alive — • Bob Dowler suggested his or family's phone was targeted

Discussion: The Independent and Press Gazette

Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:

Hugh Grant Accuses ‘The Mail on Sunday’ of Phone Hacking … LONDON - Hugh Grant blew open the phone-hacking investigation Monday, accusing The Mail on Sunday of listening to his mobile phone messages when he was dating Jemima Khan in 2007. — To date the Inquiry has heard allegations …

Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
Watchdog asked to investigate NI emails

Discussion: ABC News

Ian Burrell / The Independent: Sky News' star reporters angry at scrutiny of reporting practices

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Protest Puts Coverage in Spotlight — As police officers cleared protesters last week from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of Occupy Wall Street, they made sure most reporters were kept blocks away, supposedly for their own protection. — But in almost every other respect …

Discussion: Media Decoder

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool

Discussion: Quote and Comment

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

At 154, a Digital Milestone — The Atlantic Media Company owes its name and legacy to the 154-year-old monthly magazine founded by New England literary greats like Ralph Waldo Emerson. But in October, the company marked a very modern milestone: digital advertising revenue exceeded print advertising revenue for the first time.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Gawker, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web and Poynter

Daily Mail:

News of the World journalists' computers were destroyed by ‘putting them through a grinder and smashing them up’ — The phone hacking scandal has taken a new twist after it was revealed computers used by News of the World journalists were destroyed by putting them ‘through a grinder’.

Discussion: Independent.ie

James Robinson / Guardian: Phone-hacking victims must not launch ‘witch-hunt’, says News International

Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:

Bloomberg's Plan for World Domination — With an army of reporters and wonky information services, the media company is expanding from Wall Street to Washington, Where it hopes to control—even more. — Bloomberg was everywhere, like Bloomberg likes to be.

Discussion: Poynter and New York Times

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

Mashable Fires Editor At Large And Top Writer Ben Parr — UPDATE: Mashable has confirmed with us that Ben Parr was fired on Friday. — EARLIER: Mashable's editor at large Ben Parr has left the fast-growing news site, Business Insider has learned. — Parr had originally intended …

Discussion: Adweek, AllThingsD and ShortFormBlog, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYT Launches Group Digital Subscriptions For Companies — The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. The introduction of a new structure …

Discussion: New York Times

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Study iPad Owners Drive 88 Percent Of Worldwide Web Traffic From Tablets — One can argue the semantics over shipped units and sold units when evaluating the state of the tablet market in late 2011, but one thing seems pretty clear: way, way more people are using the iPad than any other tablet device …

Discussion: PC Magazine, ZDNet and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB names new independent directors — Le Monde shareholder Matthieu Pigasse and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert appointed ahead of AGM — BSkyB is to appoint Matthieu Pigasse, controlling shareholder of Le Monde and the French edition of Huffington Post …

Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:

Maharishi Arianna — Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet. — On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …

Discussion: Poynter, The New York Observer and Mixed Media

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

David Frum: Fox News Blacklisted Me — Conservative pundit David Frum contends that he was blacklisted from Fox News after criticizing Rush Limbaugh in 2009. (h/t Inside Cable News) — Frum made the charge in a piece for New York magazine. Back in 2009, he authored an article for Newsweek …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Inside Cable News