Mediagazer: Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid (David Beard/Washington Post)

9:45 AM ET, January 18, 2012

Top News:

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Huffington Post Set to Launch Live Web TV ‘Network’ — Arianna Huffington has made no secret of her ambition to build a news organization that can rival The New York Times in reach and prestige. But right now, she has her sights set on a different target: CNN.

Discussion: The New York Observer and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Strauss-Kahn's Wife to Edit Huffington Post in France — PARIS — The Huffington Post has named Anne Sinclair, the wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, as editor of its French edition, which it is setting up in partnership with the newspaper Le Monde.

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Rosie Nixon, Lucie Cave, Lisa Byrne - live — Full coverage as magazine and local newspaper editors give evidence at inquiry into media standards and phone hacking — 10.04am: Three celebrity magazine editors are giving evidence together.

Discussion: @hackinginquiry

David Folkenflik / NPR:

In Britain, Calls To Regulate A Freewheeling Press — The 168-year-old British tabloid, News of the World, was closed last July after a widespread scandal that involved phone and voice mail hacking. Now there's a debate about placing new regulations on the British press.

@skynewsbreak:

Sky sources: Number of high-profile phone hacking cases against News of the World close to being settled

Discussion: @dansabbagh

David Beard / Washington Post:

Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid — When Wikipedia goes dark on Wednesday, The Washington Post is joining several other media organizations, including the Guardian and NPR, to encourage a one-day crowdsourcing solution for those left searching for answers: #altwiki. — That's basically it.

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, PSFK, Media Decoder, Guardian, Daily Dot, Bits, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Boing Boing, Forbes and Telegraph, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb. — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), who is leading a push to pass a controversial anti-piracy bill, issued a statement today scolding Wikipedia over its plan to go dark with its English-language website for 24 hours in protest of the legislation.

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
What the SOPA blackout really looks like

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, St. Petersburg Times, Business Insider and @jayrosen_nyu

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Wikipedia Is Dark, But Mobile Site/Apps Stay Bright In SOPA Protest

Discussion: Guardian and @fishbowlny, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang is just the first shoe to drop in what is shaping up to be what looks like a large exodus of board members from the Silicon Valley Internet company.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company's board of directors and all other positions, the company announced today, marking the start of what may be a series of changes in the boardroom. — Yang, who co-founded the Web giant in 1995 …

Discussion: Yahoo! Inc., Forbes, @karaswisher, CNET, AdExchanger.com, PandoDaily, MediaNama, Business Insider, Guardian, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Adweek, USA Today, Future of Journalism and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A GarageBand for ebooks: Simplifying publishing could mean a flood of new content — It's not just the platform — it's the tools. — That's the line that kept coming to mind this morning as I read this Ars Technica scoop on what Apple has in store for its press event in New York Thursday.

Discussion: paidContent, GigaOM, AllThingsD, TeleRead, Business Insider and The FJP, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: Confessions of a Publisher: “We're in Amazon's Sights and They're Going to Kill Us”

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Is Politico gaining much insight with Facebook data? — Based on data provided exclusively by Facebook through a new partnership, Politico reports that attacks on Mitt Romney's time with Bain Capital “may be affecting his standing, at least among Facebook users.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Politico and The FJP

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
What Politico's Beltway cash cow, its print edition, wants from New York (and what it doesn't)

Discussion: Politico, Future of Journalism, Adweek and Poynter

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Politico Comes to New York

Discussion: FishbowlDC, GalleyCat and 10,000 Words

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News — News International's The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. — It is also considering introducing micropayments and may add rolling news to mobile editions.

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Sarah Palin slams Newsweek for giving ‘conspiracy kook writer’ Andrew Sullivan cover story — Like many conservatives, Sarah Palin is up in arms over this week's controversy-baiting Newsweek cover story by Andrew Sullivan, who asks, “Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?”

Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Tina Brown and the Newsweek covers

Discussion: Gawker, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish and The Politico

Dylan Byers / Politico:

‘Gentlemen, please,’ New York media edition — New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman suggested via Twitter that Fox News was “using” the New York Times to promote itself. New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters cried foul, and countered with a jealousy charge. (#FF!: @gabrielsherman, @jwpetersnyt)

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

AP tells staff how to correct erroneous tweets in new social media guidelines — The Associated Press updated its social media guidelines today, adding sections about correcting erroneous tweets and deleting tweets. The guidelines, which have been updated three times in the past year …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and ap.org

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Anatomy of an Error: The Bain of CNBC's Existence — After poring over some government documents, CNBC's Eamon Javers reported that Bain & Company, Mitt Romney's former firm, was one of the consulting companies that took part in the auto bailout. Javers' CNBC.com report Thursday seemed …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Inside Cable News

Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:

Big, Bigger, Biggest. — The once-scrappy network has swelled to massive size. But as the highest-priced network on cable TV, is the sports behemoth too big for its own good? — “Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve!” — It's Dec. 19, 90 minutes before kickoff at Candlestick Park …