Mediagazer: Leveson inquiry: who's appearing on Thursday (Guardian)

Leveson inquiry: Max Mosley - live — • Sienna Miller: I was verbally abused and spat at by photographers — • Horribly, I accused my friends and family of leaking stories — • I would find myself running down street at midnight chased by 10 men. That was 'a very intimidating situation'x

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: who's appearing on Thursday — Author JK Rowling, actor Sienna Miller, lawyer Mark Thomson, former F1 chief Max Mosley and ‘HJK’ to appear at high court — ‘HJK’ — An anonymous member of the public who had a relationship with an unidentified celebrity.

The Huffington Post:

Leveson Inquiry: Piers Morgan To Give Evidence To Phone Hacking Inquiry — The Huffington Post UK … Heather Mills , Daily Mirror , Mark Thompson , News Of The World , Piers Morgan , Steve Coogan , UK Media , Gq , Leveson , Phone Hacking , Uk News , UK News

James Robinson / Guardian:

Sienna Miller: News of the World stories left me paranoid — Actor tells Leveson inquiry of provocation by paparazzi, adding she accused friends and family of leaking stories to papers — Sienna Miller has told the Leveson inquiry that she was “spat on” and “verbally abused” by photographers.

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:

British Retailer HMV to Enter On-Demand Movie Market Place … LONDON - British entertainment and technology retail giant HMV is to dip its toe into the increasingly competitive on-demand movie sector here with titles such as Cars 2, Zookeeper, Rio, X-Men: First Class and Bad Teacher.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On! — The UK PPV movie JV owned by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is on an aggressive expansion that will see it unleash up to 10 white label online movie services to compete with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Lovefilm and Blinkbox.

Storyful:

Egyptian blogger Mona El-Tahawy released after arrest — Egyptian blogger, journalist and feminist activist Mona El-Tahawy was released on Thursday after she was arrested by security forces in Cairo. Twitter lit up with retweets when the last message from her Twitter account @monaeltahawy …

Discussion: @monaeltahawy and Guardian

Discussion: msnbc.com

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Police make first computer hacking arrest — Arrest of 52-year-old man is first by Operation Tuleta, the Met's investigation into computer hacking by the press — Scotland Yard has made 18 arrests so far between its three operations related to the phone-hacking scandal — Copyright: Alberto OG on Flickr.

Discussion: @dansabbagh

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Future reports £19m loss as US print revenues slump — Results for the magazine publisher shows profits fell from £5.5m to a loss of £19.3m for the year up to the end of September — Future Publishing, which owns around 90 magazines including T3, Classic Rock and Total Film …

Discussion: paidContent:UK and online.hemscottir.com

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 …

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

Discussion: Media News, Guy Fawkes' blog, Media Week, Media Decoder, Media & Entertainment, Company Town, Telegraph, mnilive.com, mediabistro.com, rbr.com, Press Gazette, BtoB Magazine, The Wrap and London Evening Standard

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.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and FishbowlLA

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Future of Journalism and The Week

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

MediaBistro May Want to Buy paidContent — for Cost (Exclusive) — Mediabistro is interested in buying paidContent, but not for anywhere close to the $15 million asking price originally reported, TheWrap has learned. — In fact, not for money at all. — “Over the years we've been interested …

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Sony rolls out TV-show download service for UK PlayStation 3 owners — In a move to keep up with Microsoft's evolving content offering on its Xbox Live service, Sony has begun offering PlayStation 3 owners the opportunity to download a wide range of TV shows via its PlayStation Network Video Store.

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Big Journalism

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.

Discussion: TVNewser

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.