Mediagazer: Ombuds pick their notable corrections of 2011 (Craig Silverman/Poynter)

10:15 AM ET, January 2, 2012

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Gordon Brown's Downing Street emails ‘hacked’ — Police investigating computer hacking by private investigators commissioned by national newspapers have uncovered evidence that emails sent and received by Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor were illegally accessed.

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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:

Scale of email hacking is set to be this year's biggest story — If 2011 was the year when the words “Operation Weeting” entered the popular lexicon, 2012 is likely to see “Operation Tuleta” added to the list of game-changing police investigations everybody is talking about.

Dylan Welch / Sydney Morning Herald:

New to Twitter: the tweet Murdoch took down ... fast — “Either @rupertmurdoch is genuinely now on Twitter, or some disgruntled ex-NOTW journo just won the hacking Olympics.” — Less than two days after joining Twitter, media mogul Rupert Murdoch appears to have had his first brush …

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Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa:

Looks like @rupertmurdoch joined Twitter and he's verified.

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, immediately comes under fire

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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Wikimedia Foundation Raises $20 Million From 1 Million+ Donors — The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, says it has raised $20 million from more than a million donors, breaking a record once again. — The organization says donations has risen every year since …

Dave Lee:

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

PBS Takes On the Premium Channels — In an effort to freshen its image and lift revenue, the Public Broadcasting Service is trying to be more like HBO — without the monthly cable bill. — Emboldened by the success of the British period drama “Downton Abbey,” one of the most critically acclaimed shows …

Nicholas Carr / Wall Street Journal:

Books That Are Never Done Being Written — Digital text is ushering in an era of perpetual revision and updating, for better and for worse — I recently got a glimpse into the future of books. A few months ago, I dug out a handful of old essays I'd written about innovation …

Steven Waldman / CJR:

This News Story Is Brought to You By... Shouldn't TV news outlets admit that they offer pay-for-play? — One of the most disturbing trends in local TV news is the persistence of “pay for play”—when local TV newscasts allow sponsors to dictate content. — The Federal Communications Commission …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Ombuds pick their notable corrections of 2011 — At newspapers and other media organizations, it's often the ombudsman — aka public editor, aka readers' editor — who's charged with the (mostly) thankless task of receiving error reports from the public and staff, and writing any resulting corrections.

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

We Didn't Name Rihanna's Armani Ad the Sexiest of the Year, Did We? — Pickup From The Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Hindustan Times. ... But No Links to Ad Age — Ad Age is getting lots of attention for running an ad-world poll that crowned Rihanna's campaign for Armani the sexiest ads of 2011.

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Glyn Moody / Techdirt:

The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? — One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain. The technology is there - scanners are now relatively fast and cheap - but the legal framework is struggling to keep up.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and TeleRead