Mediagazer: Mark Cuban Wants To Get You Laid, Invests In Men's Advice Site Brotips (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

10:05 AM ET, December 13, 2011

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Dowler Family Insist Police Told Them NotW Journalists Deleted Milly's Voicemails — The family of Milly Dowler have insisted the police told them News of the World journalists deleted voicemails on their murdered daughters' phone. On Monday the Metropolitan Police said Milly's voice messages may have been …

Guardian: Leveson inquiry: Tom Crone, Julian Pike, Lawrence Abramson - live

Nick Davies / Guardian:
What the police now know about Milly Dowler hacking

Discussion: BBC, Editor's Blog, New York Times, Digital Spy, Business Insider, newsfeed.time.com, Press Gazette, FleetStreetBlues, The Independent, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and Deadline.com

John Bingham / Telegraph:
Phone hacking: Guardian's Nick Davies accuses bosses of ‘pecking’ at climb-down story

Discussion: Guardian, msnbc.com, Crikey, Jon Slattery and Regret the Error

David Leigh / Guardian:
New inquiry into Milly Dowler hacking launched

Discussion: FleetStreetBlues and Press Gazette

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

BBC World News to Be Available Through Comcast — The BBC will announce on Tuesday a first-of-its-kind deal for Comcast to carry the BBC World News channel, opening the door to wider distribution for the channel within the United States. — The carriage agreements come nearly a year …

Discussion: TVNewser

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

NoW's Ian Edmondson asked Glenn Mulcaire to hack phones, court is told — Mulcaire's lawyer says private detective was instructed by News of the World's news editor to intercept voicemail messages — Glenn Mulcaire told the chief lawyer at the News of the World in 2007 that he was instructed …

The Daily Record:

Glenn Mulcaire's breach of contract case against News International begins — PRIVATE investigator Glenn Mulcaire's arrangement with News Group Newspapers to pay his legal fees was not unusual, a judge heard today. — Mulcaire, who was jailed for six months in 2007 for intercepting messages …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

In video, confrontation between a ‘Times’ photographer and the NYPD at Occupy Wall Street protest downtown — It still seems like not all New York Police Department officers got that memo from their boss a few weeks ago warning them not to interfere with members of the media during police actions …

Discussion: City Room, Runnin' Scared, The New York Observer, New York Magazine and Fast Company

Dennis Romero / LA Weekly:

Occupy LA: LAPD Investigates Caught-on-Video Arrest of Journalist Calvin Milam — Updated at the bottom: The LAPD has opened an investigation into this case, but a commander disputes Mark Geragos' take on what happened to his client that night. — The arrest of a journalist …

Discussion: LA Observed

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA — Later this week, the Senate's House Judiciary Committee will vote on the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). — Supporters of the bill say it's needed to safeguard the interests of rightsholders who claim their businesses are threatened by online piracy.

Discussion: CNET News, Free Press, Techdirt, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Gawker, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, The Register and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Universal: Artists didn't consent to Megaupload video — The brouhaha around Megaupload's viral music video continues this week, with Universal Music (UMG) now claiming that several of its artists didn't consent to being used in the video. Megaupload is disputing these claims in a lawsuit it filed in federal court today.

Discussion: Rolling Stone and Plagiarism Today

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Megaupload is suing Universal for unjustly yanking its commercial off YouTube

Discussion: Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, TorrentFreak and WebProNews

Adam Klasfeld / Courthouse News Service:

Gawker Brought Into New Yorker Fracas — MANHATTAN (CN) - A Canadian art authenticator has cast a wider net in his defamation lawsuit against The New Yorker, hoping to ream Gawker and about a half-dozen other media outlets and websites that publicized the magazine's original coverage.

Discussion: paidContent

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Ailes on Ailes: Fox News Chief Is Writing an Autobiography — Roger Ailes. — Several GOP candidates have treated this primary season as a book tour, just as much as a presidential campaign. Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin have all hustled around the country selling books …

Discussion: The Wrap, The New York Observer and The Huffington Post

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Is Roger Ailes Penning an Autobiography? Fox News Responds

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Inside Cable News, Deadline.com and Gawker

Daniel Miller / Hollywood Reporter:

L.A. Shooting: Hollywood Reporter Editor Shot, Recalls Incident … THR.com photo editor Chris Godley was shot by a gunman in Hollywood on Friday morning, but was only grazed by a bullet and not seriously injured in an incident that was captured on video by witnesses and widely circulated on the Internet.

Discussion: LAist, L.A. NOW and LA Observed

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Mark Cuban Wants To Get You Laid, Invests In Men's Advice Site Brotips — Being a man in the modern world is no easy task. Should I friend her on Facebook? When is it alright to ignore a text message? Men's advice site Brotips can help, and Mark Cuban wants to make sure you've heard of it.

Discussion: Fast Company, VatorNews, The Jane Dough and Business Insider

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Request Denied: Verizon Must Pay Royalties To ActiveVideo Without Delay — Verizon really can't catch a break in this ActiveVideo case. After a jury determined that they had infringed upon a handful of ActiveVideo's patents, Verizon fought to have the court stay their monthly royalty payments.

Discussion: PR Newswire and Multichannel News

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Hulu Latino Content Goes Live … NEW YORK - Hulu on Tuesday launched its previously announced Hulu Latino service, which it says offers “the most robust and complete Spanish-language content library available through an online video service in the U.S. — The online video joint venture of News Corp. …

Discussion: Hulu Blog

Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Brought Down Scheming Texas Tycoon, Dies — Judge Roy Bean, the 19th-century Texas justice of the peace and saloonkeeper, called himself “the law west of the Pecos.” Not until the 1960s was Judge Bean's legend challenged — by Billy Sol Estes.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Newt Gingrich Spokesman Outs Candidate As Anonymous Source — The New Hampshire Union Leader recently quoted “a senior aide in the [Newt] Gingrich campaign” pushing hard, and at length, against criticism from former Governor John H. Sununu, an outspoken surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Slate, Mediaite, NY Daily News, The New York Observer, The Caucus and ABCNEWS

Dylan Byers / Politico:
On ‘Gingrich aide,’ a heated no comment from McQuaid

Discussion: New York Times

Allegra Stratton / Guardian:

NI pays Tessa Jowell £200,000 — Ex-Labour cabinet minister gets settlement after police said her phone had been hacked by News of the World — The former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell has accepted a £200,000 settlement from Rupert Murdoch's News International over the hacking of her phone.

Discussion: Press Gazette and Telegraph