Mediagazer: Bloomberg Executive Is Said to Be in Talks to Lead Dow Jones (Amy Chozick/Media Decoder)

1:05 AM ET, January 28, 2012

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Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology:

Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates — I know many people are upset at Twitter's announcement that it will now be able to block tweets country by country. There has been a lot of excellent writing / reporting on the content explaining that this is not as bad as it looks.

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Guardian, Anthony De Rosa, Washington Post, Mashable!, Threat Level, The Week, PopWatch, Reuters, Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest and J-School, more at Techmeme »

Jillian C. York:

Thoughts on Twitter's Latest Move — Today, Twitter announced a new system that will allow the company to geolocationally block (or, to use their terms, “withhold") specific tweets in specific countries. On the company blog, Twitter explained: … It's been difficult to comment …

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:

Twitter isn't censoring you. Your government is. — It's barely been a day since Twitter made the announcement that, going forward, tweets could be censored based on the local laws that govern a user's location, and the rumour mill is hard at work trying to figure out the reasons behind the decision.

Discussion: msnbc.com, TechCrunch, Forbes and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How much should we trust our new information overlords?

Discussion: The Huffington Post, ReadWriteWeb, Forbes and FT Tech Hub

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis

Alex Klein / Jim Romenesko:

Yale Daily News editors sat on explosive Patrick Witt story for months — Earlier this year, national news outlets breathlessly reported that Yale's quarterback, Patrick Witt, had chosen to skip a Rhodes Scholarship finalist interview in order to lead our team against Harvard in the annual Game.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, College Media Matters, Gawker, Forbes, National Review, Bleacher Report, New York Times and Deadspin

Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
Sitting on Quarterback Sex Assault Story, Yale Daily News Considered Seeking a Private Jet for Witt

Discussion: msnbc.com, newsfeed.time.com and Forbes

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Bloomberg Executive Is Said to Be in Talks to Lead Dow Jones — News Corporation is said to be in advanced talks to hire Lex Fenwick as the chief executive of Dow Jones, filling a six-month vacancy created when the publisher's top executive resigned amid the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Moneycontrol, Thanks:@beet_tv

Adveith Nair / Reuters:
James Murdoch to quit GSK board

Discussion: MarketWatch, Guardian, Telegraph and Wall Street Journal

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Adam Jacobi says CBS fired him over Paterno death report — In a series of tweets, Adam Jacobi says CBS let him go after he published a story Saturday night saying that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. Jacobi tweets:

Discussion: Erik Wemple, The Next Web and @awallenstein

Matthew Creamer / AdAge:

Dan Abrams on Profitability, a New Food Site and Impending Fatherhood — Plus Why Jane Dough, the Rebranded and Refocused Mogulite, Is Already Doing Better Than Its Predecessor — TV host. Entrepreneur. Friend of David Zinczenko. Acceptor of Andrew Breitbart.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @romenesko, Thanks:@matt_creamer

Bloomberg:

New York Times Co. Faces Leadership Vacuum — The departure of New York Times Co. (NYT) Chief Executive Officer Janet Robinson last month leaves the company with a leadership vacuum amid falling revenue, profit squeezed by pension costs and pressure from family members to restore a dividend once worth more than $20 million a year.

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, @edmundlee, The New York Observer and Future of Journalism

Paul Miller / The Verge:

Debate rages as Spotify, MOG, and Rdio kill / save the music industry — For the conscience-laden music consumer, streaming music services present an interesting quandary. By separating the concept of “legal access to music” from the age-old paradigm of “paying the artist for an entire song or album …

Discussion: ShortFormBlog and VentureBeat

Guardian:

Who next for BBC director general role? — Mark Thompson has signalled that he is ready to step down, but who will take over from him? We look at the main contenders — Peter Fincham, ITV director of TV — Has led a creative revival at ITV, with hits such as Downton Abbey, since joining the commercial broadcaster in 2008.

Discussion: Guardian, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Guardian

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books — Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with others, has long sourced most of its basic book data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

Discussion: TeleRead

Steve Myers / Poynter:

In another election challenge to AP, Nevada GOP to release caucus results via Twitter, Google — The Nevada Republican Party announced Friday afternoon that it will release up-to-the minute results of its Feb. 4 caucus on Twitter, enabling anyone to get the latest information without relying …

Discussion: Guardian and The Newspaper Guild