Mediagazer: Reporter accused of being confidential informant in criminal investigation in Lorain County (James F. McCarty/Metro)

4:35 AM ET, November 24, 2011

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Jay Rosen / ABC News:

News Corp is Bad News — In what is perhaps the most important sentence in his Quarterly Essay, Bad News, Robert Manne writes: … He has given us that. And I am grateful for it. — Though I don't live in Australia, and do not have the same stake in its public culture …

Gideon Spanier / London Evening Standard:

James Murdoch quits the boards of Sun and Times — James Murdoch has dramatically resigned as a director of the companies that publish The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun. — The surprise move, which has seen Rupert Murdoch's son quit a string of directorships at News International …

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Jill Treanor / Guardian: BSkyB investors urged to oppose James Murdoch's re-election as chairman

Nicholas Wapshott / The Daily Beast:
Why James Murdoch Might Never Take Over Rupert's Media Empire

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Jim Romenesko:

College editor: Seeing our work go uncredited is ‘frustrating’ — Jason Alpert, the 20-year-old editor UC Davis's California Aggie, tells me that 30 or more news organizations have contacted the paper for permission to use its protest photos. “We let them use them as long as they cite California Aggie and the photographer,” he says.

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Andrew Price / The Atlantic Online:

The Life of a Photo: The Pepper-Spraying Policeman — An interview with Brian Nguyen, the student photojournalist who took the now-famous picture — The photograph of Lieutenant Pike, the now-infamous campus police officer, as he casually unloads a can of pepper spray on the bowed heads …

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CNN:

CNN's Stan Case dies in wreck — (CNN) — Stan Case, an anchor for CNN Radio, has died in a car crash in Birmingham, Alabama, a police spokesman said Wednesday. — “Stan was a news anchor for CNN Radio and a mainstay of the network since he joined CNN in 1985,” said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.

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Associated Press: Longtime CNN radio anchor Stan Case killed in car crash in Birmingham, Ala.

Guardian:

NI under pressure over McCann diaries — Madeleine McCann's mother says she felt ‘totally violated’ as father demands investigation into how NoW got hold of diaries — News International has come under pressure to explain how it got hold of Kate McCann's private diaries and published …

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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

WaPo's Ezra Should Have De-Kleined — From JournoList to activist, it appears that WaPo's liberal blogger Ezra Klein is once again blurring the lines between being a journalist and trying to sway politics. In what appears to be at a minimum a breach of journalism ethics …

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Paul Maley / The Australian:

‘No improper offer’ by News Ltd

Dylan Welch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Investigation of political favours against News Ltd

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Enda Curran / Wall Street Journal:
News Ltd. Denies Australian Senator's Claims

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James F. McCarty / Metro:

Reporter accused of being confidential informant in criminal investigation in Lorain County — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Two detectives allege that former Plain Dealer reporter Mark Puente served as a confidential informant in a criminal investigation into who wrote dozens of anonymous letters critical …

The Huffington Post:

Ferzat Jarban Dead: Cameraman Is First Reported Journalist Killed In Syria — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that cameraman Ferzat Jarban was the first journalist killed in Syria since the organization started tracking journalists' deaths in 1992. He was found dead on Sunday.

Colleen Long / Associated Press:

NYPD orders officers not to interfere with press — NEW YORK—The New York Police Department's commissioner on Wednesday sent an internal message to officers ordering them not to unreasonably interfere with media access during news coverage and warning those who do will be subject to disciplinary action …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Penguin Restores Library Lending To Kindle, But Not For New E-Books — Penguin is once again making its e-books available to libraries through Kindle, OverDrive reports. New Penguin e-books, however, remain unavailable to libraries on any platform. — OverDrive's statement:

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BBC:

Ex-NoW reporter Sean Hoare ‘died of natural causes’ — An inquest into the death of former News of the World showbusiness reporter Sean Hoare has found he died of natural causes. — Mr Hoare, 47, who claimed phone hacking was rife at the paper, was found dead at his home in Watford in July.

Chris Hewett / Watford Observer: Phone hacking whistleblower and former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare died of natural causes, inquest told

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Daily Mail publisher records operating profit drop of £13m — Results for the past year report that Associated Newspapers' operating profit fell from £89 million in 2010 to £76 million in 2011 — Operating profit for Associated Newspapers fell by £13 million in the past year …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won't Be Forced To

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Mail Online Won't Be Profitable Until 2013, As U.S. Investment Drags

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Liau Yun Qing / ZDNet:

SPH sues Yahoo for copyright infringement — Singapore media organization Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo for reproducing content from its stable of newspapers. The Web giant has refuted the charge, however, saying it intends to “vigorously defend” itself.

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

YouTube now serving up 3.5 billion videos a day — YouTube continues to grow the number of videos its viewers watch, with now more than 3.5 billion served up every day. That number wasn't part of any formal release, but was part of a presentation given by YouTube VP of global sales Lucas Watson at the Monaco Media Forum.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

The candidate from Morning Joe — In addition to Joe Scarborough's previously noted dislike of Newt Gingrich, a reader adds that the Morning Joe team has also shown an “unseemly” amount of enthusiasm for Jon Huntsman. — Since May, when frequent MJ tablemate Mark Halperin said he was …