Mediagazer: New Shareholder Vote for James Murdoch (Amy Chozick/Media Decoder)

8:35 AM ET, November 29, 2011

Top News:

Fawkes removes Campbell evidence following order — Political blogger Paul Staines, who runs the Guido Fawkes blog, has taken down a draft of Alastair Campbell's written evidence to the inquiry following a section 19 order from Lord Leveson — Political blogger Paul Staines has removed …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, http://www.Stinkyjournalism … and Guy Fawkes' blog

Andy McSmith / The Independent:

Blogger is not likely to reveal source — The name Guido Fawkes was not mentioned yesterday during the hearings into media ethics because - to quote the presiding judge, Lord Leveson - “I am concerned to deprive the particular website of that oxygen”.

Guardian:

Nick Davies gives evidence — • Former Daily Star reporter apologises to the family of Matt Lucas's ex-partner and others for stories he made up — • He says reporters on tabloids were ‘cannon fodder’ for proprietors and he was threatened after he started to speak out

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Press Gazette

Guardian: Leveson inquiry into phone hacking: who's appearing on Tuesday

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

New Shareholder Vote for James Murdoch — Last month, James Murdoch survived a contentious News Corporation shareholder vote to remain on the company's board. On Tuesday, Mr. Murdoch could face another room full of heated investors. — Shareholders in Britain's BSkyB satellite broadcaster …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Press Association:

Murdoch protest outside BSkyB AGM — Protesters calling for the resignation of BSkyB chairman James Murdoch gathered outside the company's annual general meeting in London. Two MPs also arrived at the meeting at the QEII Conference Centre in central London, saying they would ask awkward questions …

Discussion: The Independent

Mattathias Schwartz / New Yorker:

Pre-Occupied: The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street. — Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process …

Discussion: Capital New York, Media Decoder, New York Times, New York Times and The New York Observer

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Analyst: Pay TV Industry to Lose 200,000 Subscribers in 2012 … NEW YORK - “It's About Cord-Avoiders and Cord-Nevers, Not Cord-Cutters.” — That's how Credit Suisse analyst Stefan Anninger summarized continuing weak pay TV subscriber trends in a Monday report that he compiled with several colleagues.

Discussion: Lost Remote

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cain tells CNN about alleged affair as his lawyer tells TV station he's not talking — Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White says she had a 13-year-long affair with GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain, whose standing in the polls dropped after news broke of sexual harassment settlements …

Discussion: Media Decoder, CNN, The Caucus, MyFox Atlanta, blogs.thedailybeast.com, Mediaite and B&C

Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:

Financial Times sees content beating print ads — (Reuters) - The Financial Times expects its print advertising revenues to be overtaken by subscription and cover price sales for the first time this year, marking a milestone on its road to escape its dependency on volatile advertising markets.

Discussion: TeleRead, eMedia Vitals and News on News

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Google launches data journalism awards with GEN — Google announces the new awards programme at #news2011, the first news summit from the Global Editors Network — Google will partner with the Global Editors Network to offer a new data journalism contest aimed at both “established news organisations and newcomers”.

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

FT journalists to ballot on industrial action over 2% pay rise — Journalists at the Financial Times have voted to ballot for industrial action after rejecting a 2 per cent pay rise. — The NUJ chapel is also opposing alleged threats to collective pay negotiation, and claimed the mood among …

Discussion: Guardian and Jon Slattery

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Scared’ governments pressured Al Jazeera, says former director — Wadah Khanfar tells the Global Editors Network summit governments across the Arab world feared of ‘ramifications’ in their own countries after Egypt's uprising reached the media — Khanfar described the technical pressures faced …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Mayoral candidate Tom Allon named publisher of ‘City Hall’ and ‘The Capitol’ — 2013 mayoral candidate Tom Allon last week officially took the position of publisher at City Hall and The Capitol, two monthly newspapers about New York city and state politics that are slated to merge next week.

The Independent:

Anne Diamond tells Leveson Inquiry of ‘vendetta’ — Broadcaster Anne Diamond suggested today that Rupert Murdoch's editors waged a vendetta against her after she asked the media mogul how he slept at night knowing his newspapers ruined people's lives.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

The Independent:
Charlotte Church waived fee for ‘good press’

Discussion: Guardian

The Independent:
Ex-intelligence man Ian Hurst's email hacked

Discussion: Guardian

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

New Editors Named at Gawker and Deadspin — Gawker Media on Monday named new editors for two of its most prominent sites, the flagship Gawker and the sports and men's lifestyle site Deadspin. — Remy Stern, the editor of Gawker for nearly two years, will be replaced by A. J. Daulerio …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, Deadspin, mediabistro.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
A.J. Daulerio Was Eyeing Opportunities Outside of Gawker Before Editor Offer

Discussion: Gawker

Jonathan Cooper / Journal Register Company:

New Haven Register Newsroom Reorganization Focuses on In-Depth, Investigative and Digital — Engagement Team Named to Lead Audience-Focused Initiatives — NEW HAVEN, CT - Journal Register Company, a leading local news and information company managed by Digital First Media …

Discussion: The Maynard Institute, Future of Journalism and NetNewsCheck Latest

Jim Brady / Digital Man:
Investing in Investigative

Discussion: Poynter and Connecticut Newsroom

Steve Myers / Poynter:

ESPN, Syracuse newspaper held off publishing Bernie Fine sexual abuse allegations — Bobby Davis, one of the men who has accused former Syracuse University assistant men's basketball coach Bernie Fine of molestation, brought his allegations to the Syracuse newspaper in September 2002.

Discussion: Deadspin, ESPN, Forbes and Syracuse Post-Standard