Mediagazer: Netflix’s Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

11:55 AM ET, January 10, 2012

Top News:

Times journalist was disciplined for computer hacking — A Times journalist was disciplined in 2009 for involvement in “computer hacking”, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. — News International interim director of legal affairs Simon Toms said in written evidence to the inquiry …

Guardian:

Will Lewis gives evidence — • Indy editor says Johann Hari row ‘damaged’ paper's reputation — • Hari will return as columnist but not interviewer next month — • Worried inquiry will ‘curtail’ legitimate investigative journalism — • FT editor says PCC ‘misstepped badly’ over phone hacking

Discussion: Press Gazette, @lisaocarroll, @benfenton, Journalism.co.uk and @benfenton

Thomas Penny / Bloomberg:

Cameron Will Be Questioned at Media Ethics Inquiry, Times Says — U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will be summoned to testify to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics, the Times of London newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person close to the inquiry.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Lord Justice Leveson signals he expects substantial regulatory reform

Discussion: @dansabbagh, @joshhalliday and Press Gazette

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Nico Pitney to leave The Huffington Post — Nico Pitney, executive editor at The Huffington Post and one of Arianna Huffington's top lieutenants, is leaving the website, Capital has learned. — The news was announced in a staff meeting earlier today. — According to a source …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Myspace — Yes, Myspace — Says It's Going to Sell You Web TV — Lots of folks are waiting for Google, or Apple, or Verizon or someone to offer a Web video subscription service that would rival cable TV. — None of those guys have announced their plans for that, yet.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Company Town, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Multichannel, Lost Remote and CNET, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Why the Future of TV Won't Be Here Soon

Nina Totenberg / NPR:

Supreme Court To Consider FCC Indecency Case … Dirty words return to the usually staid Supreme Court Tuesday. For a second time in three years, the justices are hearing arguments about a Federal Communications Commission regulation adopted during the Bush administration that allows …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:

Paul Cuts Off CNN, Again — HOLLIS, N.H. — What's left of Ron Paul's patience with the news media appears to be running out. — During a campaign stop here Monday morning, Mr. Paul abruptly cut off a brief interview with the CNN reporter Dana Bash when she asked about his ability to connect with voters in New Hampshire.

Discussion: Chickaboomer, The Huffington Post, Capital New York, Yahoo! News and Mediaite

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though international roll-out losses are set to exceed $70 million this quarter alone, CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent.

more at Techmeme »

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back

Discussion: Pocket-lint, Media News, Bits, Techland, Epicenter, Guardian, Sky News, Telegraph and The Next Web

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Netflix launch in UK starts price war

Discussion: Engadget

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go? — Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets. — Free since its mid-October launch thanks to a Channel 4 sponsorship …

Discussion: The FJP and The Wall Blog

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire — Engadget seemed healthy. — Back at the beginning of February, AOL's marquee technology blog was coming off its most trafficked month in site history. It had survived the reorganization that gutted many of AOL's other verticals …

more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko:

Courant hires ad director it skewered in its news pages — A reader sends this email: Hartford Courant Rips Businessman as Shady, Hires Him as Ad Director Except for being true, it's practically Onion copy. In 2008, The Hartford Courant ran a detailed story about a local vanity publisher …

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Nielsen: One-third of mobile users downloaded news apps in past month — One-third of tablet and smartphone owners in a Nielsen survey said they had downloaded a news app within the past 30 days, and 19 percent had paid for one. The chart below shows survey results for news and other categories.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Alysia Santo / CJR:

Spying on Journalists is Easy — Lax computer security creates easy targets — When promising anonymity, discreetly stashed notes and a tight lip are the precautions of journalism's past. Reporters have gone to jail rather than share the information they've gathered for a court proceeding …

Discussion: Poynter

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Fox News has a new digital look for 2012 (exclusive) — With the new year come new resolutions, and Fox News has one of its own: It's adopting a new digital strategy that takes the mobile world into special account. — “The starting point for all [these changes] is there are more devices …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, NetNewsCheck Latest, Home Media Magazine, Inside Cable News and TVNewser

Steve Yelvington:

What newsrooms should learn from Kodak — So Kodak, the company that invented amateur photography in the 19th century and invented digital photography in the 20th, is on the ropes. There are obvious lessons for newspapers and newsrooms. Here are a few of them. — Your business isn't what you think it is.

Discussion: Metamedia

Melissa Ulbricht / MediaShift Idea Lab:

Al Jazeera, Ushahidi Join in Project to Connect Somalia Diaspora via SMS — In the Horn of Africa, Somalia makes headlines, but often only because of drought, famine, crisis and insecurity. Al Jazeera launched Somalia Speaks to help amplify stories from people and their everyday lives in the region — all via SMS.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Guardian:

Kelvin MacKenzie: News International should be fined for ‘lying’ to PCC — Former Sun editor tells Leveson inquiry NoW publisher should pay ‘penalty’ for misleading watchdog over phone hacking — Kelvin MacKenzie, the former Sun editor, has told the Leveson inquiry that News International …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Jon Slattery, Guardian and Guardian