Mediagazer: From Safety of New York, Reporting on Distant Home (Brendan Spiegel/New York Times)

8:20 AM ET, November 22, 2011

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Three Years Later, the Guardian Wants a Buyer for PaidContent — Three years after buying PaidContent, the Guardian Media Group has put the New York-based media news site and its parent company ContentNext on the block. — The British newspaper publisher has hired boutique bank Coady Diemar Partners to market the company.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, Jon Slattery, The Wall Blog, VentureBeat, @edmundlee, @rafat and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Steve Coogan gives evidence on phone hacking - live — Live coverage as the comedian joins Elle Macpherson's adviser, Mary-Ellen Field, and footballer Garry Flitcroft in giving evidence — 9.53am: Here are profiles of today's witnesses: — Steve Coogan

Discussion: Daily Mail

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Mail titles hit back at Grant over ‘mendacious smears’ — Mail on Sunday denies claims by actor Hugh Grant that it hacked his phone in 2007, calling his allegations ‘mendacious smears driven by a hatred of the media’ — Hugh Grant arrives at the Leveson inquiry today alongside his lawyer David Sherbourne

Discussion: Guardian, Company Town, Gawker, Future of Journalism, The New Yorker Blog, Journalism.co.uk, Digital Spy, Big News Network.com and Daily Mail

George Eaton / New Statesman:

Hugh Grant's 10 myths of tabloid journalism — How the actor rebutted the tabloids at the Leveson inquiry. — Hugh Grant was denied the opportunity to read out his full witness statement at the Leveson inquiry this afternoon. But towards the end of the session, he was given the chance …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, The Staggers, Erik Wemple, Future of Journalism and Media Decoder

Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Hugh Grant Accuses ‘The Mail on Sunday’ of Phone Hacking

Discussion: @jemima_khan, Future of Journalism, @joelmgunter, @mrnickclark and Guardian

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Times’ goes after young talent at Huffington Post — Over the past year and change, The Huffington Post has added a small collection of veteran editors and reporters from The New York Times to its masthead. — Lately, however, the Times has exhibited a tendency to pluck off some of HuffPost's younger staff.

Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Maharishi Arianna — Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely …

Discussion: Mixed Media, The Daily Caller, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Business Insider and The New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NBC News announces changes to technology, social media staff — John Keegan, the new director of technology for NBC News, comes from Fox News. Bonnie Optekman becomes vice president for emerging technologies, overseeing delivery of NBC News television content on different platforms.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Sarah Palin Got Scolded by Roger Ailes for Not Announcing Her Non-Candidacy on Fox News — Sarah Palin's announcement that she wouldn't run for president disappointed her legions of admirers — but it infuriated Roger Ailes. The Fox News chief wasn't angry about the decision itself.

Discussion: Media Decoder and Inside Cable News

Brendan Spiegel / New York Times:

From Safety of New York, Reporting on Distant Home — WHEN news breaks in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore is there. His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born “underwear bomber” arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing this summer shook a United Nations building …

Jeff Jarvis / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Cookie Hypocrisy — Sunday's New York Times editorializes in favor of Do Not Track and other privacy legislation going through Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Yet the New York Times itself makes much use of personal, private, and tracking information itself.

Discussion: New York Times

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Luke Russert Makes MSNBC Anchoring Debut — Viewers of MSNBC's “Daily Rundown” this morning may have noticed a new face behind the anchor chair. — Correspondent Luke Russert, who typically wanders the halls of Congress for the network, made his anchoring debut this morning, in place of a vacationing Chuck Todd.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and FishbowlDC

David Freedlander / PolitickerNY:

In Light of ‘Occupy’ Arrests, New Group ‘To Monitor NYPD/Press Relations’ — The New York Press Club announced on their website this afternoon that they were forming “The Coalition for the First Amendment,” along with other local media groups in order to monitor relations between the NYPD and the press.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Capital New York