Mediagazer: The Verge and The Kernel: Technology journalism's refreshing new face (Dave Lee)

10:25 PM ET, January 1, 2012

Top News:

Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa:

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

Discussion: @jack, @brianstelter, @piersmorgan, @mattderienzo, @paulcarr, The Huffington Post, @johnprescott, Mediaite, @fromedome, @anildash, @jeffjarvis, @ethank, @rupertmurdoch, @ivankatrump, @felixsalmon and @annielowrey

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, immediately comes under fire — As the world welcomed the New Year or prepared for their New Years Eve celebrations, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch decided not only would he make himself more accessible to the public, he would create himself a Twitter account.

Discussion: Guardian, CNN, Saint Petersblog, Hollywood Reporter and Future of Journalism

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

Dave Lee:

The Verge and The Kernel: Technology journalism's refreshing new face — “Hello humans,” he says, looking almost surprised that anyone has bothered to turn up. — “This is our first show. We have a million planned, literally.” — The scene resembles something from the mid-nineties …

Discussion: @mikepilarz

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

Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner, MSG Fail to Reach Agreement Ahead of Deadline — NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden Co.'s sports networks won't be available for Time Warner Cable Inc. subscribers in the new year, as the two sides were unable to resolve a dispute over programming costs.

Discussion: Reuters, Gothamist and NY Daily News

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.

Discussion: On the Media

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Russian newspaper ‘being persecuted’ — A Russian newspaper editor who claims his paper is being persecuted has appealed to international press freedom watchdogs for help. — Vitaly Shapran, editor of the Gorodskoi Vestnik, the only opposition paper published in Berdsk, Novosibirsk …

Seth Godin / The Domino Project:

How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia — The Long Tail is Chris Anderson's brilliant coinage. If you're not up to speed on it, here you go. — Well, the long tail has hit the book business, and hard. The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Techdirt and TeleRead

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Here is the news - newspaper organisations defy the digital revolution — At the beginning of this month, Clay Shirky offered some thoughts on how we journalists might like to think about our digital future. — His essay (it seems trite to describe it as a mere posting), Institutions …

Ammar Karim / Agence France Presse:

Iraq row festers as speaker denies penning op-ed — BAGHDAD — A political row festered in Iraq on Friday, as a top Sunni leader denied he penned a commentary criticising the Shiite-led government, the latest in a crisis that has stoked sectarian tensions. — Since the departure …

Dylan Byers / Politico: Sunni leader denies NY Times byline