Mediagazer: Leveson inquiry: BBC bosses give evidence and phone hacking updates (Guardian)

11:40 AM ET, January 23, 2012

Top News:

Leveson inquiry: BBC bosses give evidence and phone hacking updates — • Thompson: BBC spent £310,000 on investigators since 2005 — • Receives about 240,000 complaints a year, out of 1m contacts — • ‘Sachsgate’ was ‘very serious lapse of editorial judgment’

Discussion: Press Gazette and Sky News

David Leigh / Guardian:

Phone hacking: News of the World journalists lied to Milly Dowler police — Surrey police report released by MPs reveals reporters interfered with investigation as well as hacking missing girl's phone — • Surrey police letter on the Milly Dowler investigation

Discussion: Associated Press, Journalism.co.uk and Hacking inquiry

@skynewsbreak:

Media Committee chair John Whittingdale MP says “several NOTW reporters appeared to have hacked Milly Dowler's phone”

Shane Croucher / International Business Times:
Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Sun Set for April Launch

Discussion: @tom_watson

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Tom Watson calls on Met to investigate Times email hacking

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Press Gazette: BBC spent £310,000 on private detectives in six years

Fusible:

Facebook registers ‘newsroom’ domains, is a social news website on the way? — Facebook has had a busy week with domain names. — On January 18, the company registered a slew of domains with “FB Origin” in the name. It followed up those purchases with “timeline movie maker” domains.

Discussion: Journalism.org

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Tom Curley, Associated Press President And CEO, To Retire — NEW YORK — Tom Curley, the top executive at the Associated Press, told staff Monday that the “moment has come for AP to begin a transition to a new leader.” Curley, who holds the titles of president and CEO …

Discussion: paidContent and mediabistro.com

Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World:

NBCUniversal Launches Book Publishing Arm, NBC Publishing — By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid — NBCUniversal is launching a book publishing arm to capitalize on growth in e-reader and tablet adoption, the decreasing cost of e-book production and a backlog …

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

Nearly a Third of Americans Now Own an E-Reader or Tablet — A new Pew study sees a sales surge in digital reading devices. Here's why we should be wary. — Pew has a report out this morning examining the sales performance of tablets and e-readers over the holidays.

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar — There was no must-have toy of Christmas 2011 — for youngsters, anyway. — For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets …

Discussion: AllThingsD, MediaPost, eMedia Vitals, Pew Internet and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month, Thumbing Nose At Old Media Thinking As It Goes — The latest social-media phenomenon, Tumblr, continues to post astounding traffic metrics. — Founder and CEO David Karp spoke at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, where he reiterated some of the company's recent milestones:

Felix Salmon / Reuters:

How sharing disrupts media — I'm at DLD in Munich, where David Karp of Tumblr and Samir Arora of Glam Media helped me understand the way that media and publishing are evolving these days, and the way in which creating, editing, and publishing are increasingly separate things which interact …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SocialTimes.com, eMedia Vitals and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Joe Flint / LA Times:

Fox and RCN team up on Spanish-language broadcast network — News Corp.'s Fox International Channels and RCN Television Group, a Colombian broadcaster, are teaming up to launch a Latino broadcast network in the United States. — The new channel, dubbed MundoFox, will launch in the fall of this year.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple's iBooks in Three Days — Though nascent and unproven, Apple's new textbook initiative appears to be gaining lots of momentum — and quickly, too. Within days of its debut, Apple's iBooks textbook store had already racked up a significant number of downloads.

Discussion: ZDNet, Digits, eBookNewser, GigaOM, Mashable!, Fast Company, CNET, Garcia Media, The Next Web, Softpedia News and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Publisher Terry McGraw on Steve Jobs and Digital Textbooks: “This Was His Vision”

Jim Romenesko:

Devon Edwards will remain on Onward State staff — Lois Lane { Good one Knilands. } — Robert Knilands { I'd be more interested in hearing why more than half the people who are paid to read the articles get away with not reading them.... } - Jan 22, 10:37 AM — Robert Knilands { Interesting — the guy took responsibility.

Discussion: Onward State