Mediagazer: E-Singles: 'Journalism's Extraordinary Challenges In An Entirely New Place' (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

Occupy Wall Street Journalist Arrests Cost U.S. Dearly In Latest Press Freedom Index — The targeting of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement has caused the United States to drop precipitously in a leading survey of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders' latest Press Freedom Index …

Discussion: @brianstelter and Jcstearns

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood: Bribe allegation ‘completely untrue’ — Former News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood tells the Leveson inquiry allegations he attempted to bribe staff to alter copy when he previously worked for the Sunday Times are ‘completely untrue’

Discussion: Guardian

Press Gazette:

Jefferies calls for inquiry over ‘police leaks’ to reporters — Joanna Yeates's former landlord Chris Jefferies has accused police of leaking information about him to journalists following his arrest on suspicion of her murder. Retired school teacher Christopher Jefferies made the accusation …

Discussion: Guardian

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette: The Times faces Leveson scrutiny over NightJack

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Mahmood: 'I've had splashes from crack addicts'

Discussion: Guardian

Alexandra Topping / Guardian: Leveson must back ban on sexualised images in media, women's groups say

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Sun executive says sorry for Christopher Jefferies coverage

Discussion: Press Gazette

BuzzFeed:

Next The Biggest Newspaper In The World Is ... The Daily Mail!? — The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has quietly unseated the New York Times to become the newspaper with the biggest online reach in the world, according to figures from the online tracking service comScore.

Guardian:

Vaizey to broker meeting over BBC sexism allegations — Broadcasting minister to set up meeting with Mark Thompson to discuss under-representation of women both on and off air — The broadcasting minister, Ed Vaizey, has undertaken to set up a meeting between Nadine Dorries …

Discussion: Guardian and Company Town

Press Association:

MP slams BBC ‘culture of sexism’ — The Government should withhold the licence fee payout to the BBC at the next round of negotiations unless the Corporation does more to tackle sexist discrimination against its women television and radio presenters, a Tory MP has said.

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Lord Patten's BBC director general ‘succession plan’ is a curious move

Miriam Elder / paidContent:

New Partner For Wikileaks' Assange: Russia's State-Run TV — It's the television channel that has given voice to a thousand anti-western conspiracy theories, while avoiding criticism of the hand that feeds it. Now state-run Russia Today, the Kremlin's English-language propaganda arm …

Discussion: PC Magazine, The Corsair, TVNewser, Future of Journalism, CNET, Engadget, The Atlantic Wire, PandoDaily, Digital Spy, The Next Web, Mashable!, Gawker, New York Magazine and Gizmodo

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

E-Singles: 'Journalism's Extraordinary Challenges In An Entirely New Place' — Byliner recently announced that it has sold 100,000 original e-singles, and other publishers are finding similar success with the format: The Atavist sold over 100,000 copies of ten e-singles combined last year …

Discussion: GalleyCat, NetNewsCheck Latest and Future of Journalism

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

Foundation could ‘re-open the question’ of buying Baltimore Sun — Robert Embry Jr., who was reportedly part of an investors group thinking about buying the Sun in 2006, tells Gus Sentementes that the investors “would re-open the question” once the Tribune Co. exits bankruptcy.

Discussion: BaltTech

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wenner Again Quits MPA, Magazines' Industry Association — ‘Power of Print’ Collaboration Is Largely Concluded — After a couple of years back in the fold, Wenner Media is withdrawing from the MPA for a second time. — The MPA is magazines' main industry trade association …

Discussion: MinOnline

Alysia Santo / CJR:

Teaching Cyber-Security — Confidentiality promises often require technical skill — Since 2007, Steve Doig, an investigative journalist, has been giving a talk called “Spycraft: Keeping your sources private.” He's presented at conferences for Investigative Reporters and Editors …

Richard Goldstein / New York Times:

Bill Mardo, Writer Who Pushed Baseball to Integrate, Dies at 88 — Bill Mardo, a sportswriter for the Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker who fought major league baseball's color barrier in the 1940s when the mainstream American news media was largely silent on the subject, died Friday in Manhattan.

Will Richmond / paidContent:

What To Expect From Netflix Today — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will report its Q4 '11 earnings later today, but whereas I've taken stands in past quarters about subscriber acquisition results, this time around I can only say your guess is as good as mine. Subsequent to last summer's Qwikster …

Discussion: AdAge, Forbes and mediabistro.com

Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:

Yahoo: Media Giant, Tech Company, or Both? — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, has had the job for just three weeks, but during today's fourth quarter earnings call, he pushed for a more “balanced” approach and insisted that Yahoo is equal parts media company and equal parts tech firm.

Discussion: TechCrunch and MediaNama

Instinct:

Arkansas Paper Refuses To Print Gay Couple's Commitment Ceremony Announcment — The Arkansas Democrat Gazette isn't acting very democratically and has found itself the subject of a protest after denying a gay couple's request to print their commitment ceremony announcement. Details follow.

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:

Lara Logan: Life is not about dwelling on the bad — Exclusive Interview: CBS news star talks about PTSD, her recovery, her family, her work and the women that inspire her — CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan in Tahrir Square moments before she was assaulted by a mob of protesters.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, PopWatch and msnbc.com

Discussion: TVSpy