Mediagazer: HBO forces Netflix to go elsewhere for its DVDs (Greg Sandoval/CNET)

12:25 AM ET, January 6, 2012

Top News:

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Editors to face Leveson Inquiry next week — Fleet Street will be in the dock next week as a variety of leading national newspaper journalists, editors and publishers take the stand at the Leveson Inquiry. — On Monday the witness list comprises: Sun royal editor Duncan Larcombe …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Dominic Mohan and Kelvin MacKenzie to appear next week — Lord Justice Leveson will focus on former and current editors from the Sun, Telegraph, Mail, Indy, FT and Express — The editor of the Sun, Dominic Mohan, and his best-known predecessor, Kelvin MacKenzie …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Thurlbeck says Leveson should spark ‘tabloid revolution’ — Former chief reporter of the News of the World Neville Thurlbeck has said that the Leveson Inquiry should be “the spark that ignites a tabloid revolution”. — Writing on his own blog, Thurlbeck said today: “Without radical reform …

Neville Thurlbeck:
Notes on Leveson and the Need for Tabloid Revolution

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New Movies — Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You're going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters. — A new deal between Time Warner's movie studio …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Epicenter, Electronista, Engadget and parislemon, more at Techmeme »

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

HBO forces Netflix to go elsewhere for its DVDs — Netflix won't get HBO shows at a discount anymore but the video-rental service will still be able to rent ‘True Blood’ and other HBO shows. — In what is largely a symbolic move, HBO has stopped providing DVDs of its shows to Netflix …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Multichannel, Engadget, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable, The Verge, VatorNews, Mashable!, Electronista, The Next Web and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found NewsRight — Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online. — A project first developed by the Associated Press and initially named the News Licensing Group …

Discussion: Mashable!, Media & Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Adweek and mnilive.com

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Remember the beacon? Newly formed NewsRight is the evolution of AP's News Registry

Discussion: Poynter, TechZwn, AdPulp and paidContent

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Analyst: Netflix Now the 15th Most-Watched TV ‘Network’ in U.S. — Netflix would now be the 15th most-watched TV “network” in the U.S. and could be the second most-watched in Netflix homes, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield wrote in a blog post Wednesday. His math is based on news …

Discussion: Free Press, C21Media and Electronista

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Current TV Source: Keith Olbermann Has Not Responded To Request To Cover New Hampshire — The plot of the bewildering, apparently one-sided dispute between Countdown host Keith Olbermann and Current TV is thinning as it thickens. A source at the network tells Mediaite that …

Discussion: Gawker, Media Decoder, Hot Air, Big Journalism and The Week

Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
Olbermann Skewers Media Coverage of His Clash With Current TV

Discussion: FishbowlDC, The Daily Caller, Yahoo! News, Wannabe Hacks, Washington Post, TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter and Yahoo! News

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Keith Olbermann Has a Point Regarding the Quality of Current TV's Production Values

Discussion: Erik Wemple and PopWatch

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Where Did Nine Million Cable Subscribers Go? — New year, new chance to talk about cord-cutting/shaving/avoiding. Which is either a big deal that's going to get bigger, or basically imaginary, depending on who you like to listen to. — If you're in the big-deal camp …

Discussion: PC Magazine

Will Richmond / paidContent:
Disney, Comcast And Why TV Everywhere Alone Is Not Enough

Discussion: Comcast

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: Comcast-Disney Pact Signals More Deals Aimed at Fighting Netflix

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

News Int gears up for launch of iPad focused project — News International is gearing up a new digital project which is believed to be largely aimed at iPad users and is partly staffed by former employees of the News of the World. — At least 11 former News of the World journalists …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Nick Denton's 'State of Gawker 2012′ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’ — Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton occasionally sends out missives for his company that usually contain a little bit of insight into the way his company is trending …

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Gawker Blogger Fired After Post Invoking N-Word

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Gawker

Michael Wolff / GQ:

Why I love Fox News — Forget the phone-hacking scandal, the real threat to News Corp comes from its enemy within - Fox News' president Roger Ailes has the power, profitability and political influence to bring the media empire to collapse — For more than a decade, the traditional media business …

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Scott Martin / USA Today:

Apple television gamble the talk of CES — Apple is the only company that consistently gets big buzz out of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — without even attending. — This year will be no different. — Connected TVs — TVs that connect to and can access content …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Electronista, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Fox News, 9to5Mac and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Its Nook Business — Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to separate the Nook business” from the rest of the company. “We see substantial value in what we've built …

Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:

REPORT: News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA Legislation — Controversial legislation that the co-founder of Google has warned “would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world” has received virtually no coverage from major American television news outlets during their evening newscasts and opinion programming.

Discussion: Steve Blank, Betabeat and Future of Journalism