Mediagazer: How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became … (Tim Currie/Nieman Journalism Lab)

5:00 AM ET, January 27, 2012

Top News:

Murray Weiss / DNAinfo:

Greg Kelly Accuser Claimed She Got Pregnant From Alleged Rape, Sources Say — MANHATTAN — The woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her also claims she became pregnant as a result of the alleged sexual assault, sources told DNAinfo. — Kelly, a local TV news anchor and son …

Discussion: New York Magazine, PolitickerNY, Business Insider, Newsday, Gothamist and The New York Observer

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Greg Kelly, ‘Good Day New York’ co-host accused of rape, ‘has requested some time off’: station

Discussion: New York Magazine

Daily Mail:
Popular TV host and son of New York City police commissioner accused of ‘raping young woman in her office’

Discussion: Gawker

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams On Rape Allegation Against Greg Kelly: DA Knows Very Well That ‘The World Is Watching’

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former FNC White House Reporter Accused of Rape

Discussion: Capital New York, New York Times, New Jersey Online and rbr.com

KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest:

Facebook wanted journalists to sign non-disclosures before news conference — What they DID want us to see: Facebook attorney Craig Clark, right, talks to reporters with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, second from right, at the press conference in Seattle on Thursday.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, JIMROMENESKO.COM, ShortFormBlog and 10,000 Words

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple in China: The New York Times goes for the Pulitzer — Its investigative series about how our electronic gadgets are made could be a contender — Aftermath of an explosion at an iPad factory in Chengdu, China — When monologist Mike Daisey flew to China to find out why the workers …

Discussion: CNET, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Betabeat, parislemon, AllThingsD, Latest Stories …, KPLU News for Seattle …, The Wrap and New York Times, more at Techmeme »

Steve Myers / Poynter:
NYT publishes Chinese translation of story about workers who make Apple products

Discussion: PC Magazine, Latest Stories …, The Verge, VentureBeat and Daily Mail

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

Facebook Just Hired A Bloomberg Journalist To Be Its Managing Editor — In what could be a sign of things to come, Facebook has hired Dan Fletcher, former social media director at Bloomberg, to be its managing editor. — Both Fletcher and sources at Facebook confirmed that Fletcher will make the move …

Discussion: Forbes, ZDNet, Future of Journalism, The Wall Blog, The Atlantic Wire and Talking Biz News, more at Techmeme »

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Forget Hulu and Amazon: What Netflix is worried about is TV Everywhere — Do you think Netflix is worried about the fact that Hulu Plus now has over 1.5 million subscribers? Well, think again. — According to the letter its managers wrote to its shareholders today following the release …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again

Discussion: Company Town

Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Netflix deal with Warner Bros. includes delay in queues

Discussion: The Verge, VentureBeat, /Film, Gizmodo, Broadcasting & Cable and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

How the Daily Mail became the web's biggest newspaper — It's official. According to figures from comScore, Britain's Daily Mail has become the biggest newspaper on the web, hauling its way past everybody else... even the grand old New York Times. — And although the Gray Lady both disputes …

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Editors Weblog, Noted, Journalism.org and eMedia Vitals

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Internet Brag

Discussion: eBookNewser, Shaping the Future … and @pressgazette

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Gingrich admits ABC claim was false — After nearly a week on the defensive, CNN's John King reports tonight that Newt Gingrich's claim about offering witnesses to ABC News in his defense — to rebut the network's interview with his second wife, Marianne Gingrich — was not true.

Discussion: National Review, The Politico, Big Journalism, Mother Jones, Riptide 2.0, @eggerton, Guardian, Gothamist, The Daily What, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Mediaite and CNN

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners' Lending Library Increases Sales — Amazon's early data from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to borrow one free e-book per month, “suggests the possibility of an increase …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Thompson to step down after Olympics — Director general will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013 after eight years in charge of public broadcaster — Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, has signalled to senior colleagues that he is ready to step down, with insiders believing …

Discussion: Guardian

Press Gazette:

Google removed hundreds of Max Mosley web pages — Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley's sex life from its search results index, the Leveson Inquiry heard. — But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded …

Discussion: Guardian

BBC:
Leveson Inquiry: Facebook ‘protected by own users’

Discussion: Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Former Liberian dictator threatens to sue Boston Globe — Days before the Boston Globe published a withering editor's note essentially retracting its Jan. 17 story about former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's alleged ties to the CIA, African news sources were reporting that Taylor was threatening to sue the Globe for libel.

Discussion: Boston Globe and Foreign Policy

Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:

Spotify hits 3m subscribers to improve conversion rate — High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail.

Discussion: Fast Company

Steve Myers / Poynter:

New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms — More and more journalists use blogging platforms to write and edit stories, but those text editors are pretty basic: It's not easy to see what changes others have made to a post.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and NYConvergence.com

Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia — Every morning, the business and political elite in the biggest province on Canada's East Coast turns to an unlikely source of information about their own world.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands — There are plenty of reasons why the traditional media business — including the advertising industry — is in the shape it is in, including a failure to move quickly enough to adapt to changing market conditions.

Discussion: Poynter

Wall Street Journal:

AP names Lee Enterprises' Mary Junck to lead board — NEW YORK — Mary E. Junck, the CEO of newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc., was named chairman of The Associated Press board of directors Thursday. — Junck replaces William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group, who had been AP chairman since 2007.