Mediagazer: Hit Record — There's a terrible stereotype about Web editors … (Kerry Lauerman/Open Salon)

8:50 AM ET, February 8, 2012

Top News:

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Sky News clamps down on Twitter use — Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories — Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster.

Discussion: Forbes, GigaOM, Anthony De Rosa, Poynter, Charlie Beckett, @antderosa, @justinnxt, @wyredavies, @lheron, @robertmackey, The Next Web, The Atlantic Wire, @rosschawkins, @dansabbagh, @joshhalliday, FleetStreetBlues, Boing Boing and Inside

Ben Fenton / blogs.ft.com: Sky's the limit on retweets

Fleet Street Blues:
Sky News opts for old-fashioned content creation over curation with Twitter clampdown

Discussion: The Wall Blog and The Next Web

Brian Farmer / The Independent:

More phone-hacking claims settled — More high-profile figures have settled their phone-hacking damages claims, the High Court heard today. Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, comedian Steve Coogan, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes and football agent Sky Andrew are among …

Bloomberg: Times Editor Apologizes for Misleading U.K. Court

Reuters:
U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments

Discussion: Guardian, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, @henrycp, Capital New York, Telegraph, BBC, @rosschawkins, Telegraph and BBC

Stephen Hull / The Huffington Post - UK: Dominic Mohan, Sun Editor, Says Page 3 Girls Are ‘Healthy Role Models’

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Greg Kelly ‘thankful’ to be cleared of rape charges, will return to ‘Good Day’ soon — Fox 5 anchor Greg Kelly issued a statement through his publicist Tuesday night following news reports that the Manhattan D.A. will not charge him with rape. — “I am thankful that the investigation established …

Discussion: NY Daily News, Capital New York, Gothamist and FishbowlNY

Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: TV anchor Greg Kelly ‘will NOT be charged with rape’

Discussion: New York Times and Gawker

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

McClatchy Revenues Dip Nearly 8% — Major newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. reported that total revenues decreased 5% to $351.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. The decline was attributed to weak print advertising demand, as total advertising revenues fell 5.7% to $270.9 million …

Discussion: MediaPost and The McClatchy Company

Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee: McClatchy reports higher quarterly profits as signs show revenue slump easing

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments

Discussion: Poynter and MediaPost

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

GOP Primary Show: Non-Stop News And Noise In The Age Of Twitter — Last week, Jon Ralston, a veteran Las Vegas Sun columnist, dared reporters to ignore Donald Trump's unveiling of his presidential endorsement — with low expectations about how that might play out.

Discussion: Poynter

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Pew: Cable tops local TV news as source of campaign, election information

Discussion: Media Decoder, Pew Research Center …, Inside Cable News, News for Digital Journalists, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, ReadWriteWeb, Washington Post, Hillicon Valley and Multichannel

Elizabeth Spiers / spiers.tumblr.com:

The New York Observer, One Year In — I started at the New York Observer a year ago this week as editor in chief and editorial director of Observer Media Group, and it's been a fantastic year. We introduced a lot of changes, launched several new properties and gained some nice momentum …

Discussion: Felix Salmon

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
New York Observer Publisher Jared Kushner Might Buy The Dodgers

Discussion: Forbes, Los Angeles Times, LAist, FishbowlLA, New York Post, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Peter Lewis / The Bay Citizen:

Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reporting Announce Intent to Merge — The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting have signed a formal letter of intent to merge the two award-winning Bay Area nonprofit news organizations, the directors of both companies announced Tuesday afternoon.

Discussion: California Watch

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

In latest report, circulation is up for ‘New York,’ ‘New Yorker’ — During a six month period in which the magazine industry continued to see decreases in subscriptions and newsstand sales, New York's hometown glossies still eked out small circulation gains.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Media Decoder, Capital New York, Adweek, Canadian Magazines, NewsBulletin Connection and The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Magazine Newsstand Sales Still In Freefall

Discussion: Folio, Globe and Mail and NewsBulletin Connection

Kerry Lauerman / Open Salon:

Hit Record — There's a terrible stereotype about Web editors, that we just care about traffic. Page views, unique visitors, clicks, hits, eyeballs, drivebys, furtive peeks, longing glances and everything in between. — And it's true! — Except I'm here to tell you that there's no easy trick …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Nieman Journalism Lab and @alexismadrigal

Helena Williams / The Huffington Post - UK:

BBC Journalists' Families Caught Up in ‘Campaign of Intimidation’ — Increasingly, journalists are being harassed and threatened for attempting to shed light on dark places, but a more insidious tactic of intimidation is being used. Staff of the BBC Persian service said that recently …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion — Mail Online's annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT reported in Wednesday's interim disclosure for its October-to-January earnings.

Discussion: Guardian and production.investis.com

Jim Romenesko:

Editorial cartoonists insulted by NYT solicitation — Hello - — The Sunday Review section is bringing back editorial cartoons! Each week a single-panel cartoon will run on page 2, facing our weekly comics by Brian McFadden. — Please email your submissions to sundayreviewcartoons@nytimes.com

Discussion: CJR and Gawker

Patrick Thornton / Poynter:

How Siri, if opened up to third-party apps, could enhance news consumption — Apple's Siri voice technology is one of the must-have features of the iPhone 4S, and has become one of the phone's biggest selling points. — Voice technology is not new. What makes Siri and similar technologies different …

Matthew Bryan Beck / Mashable!:

Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music? — Matthew Bryan Beck is an NYC-based singer-songwriter, producer, editor, graphic designer and photographer. He writes the tech/social media blog Sludgr. Follow him on Twitter and Subscribe on Facebook.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Why a Univision-ABC Partnership Might Make Sense — A long-brewing business plan between Univision and the Walt Disney Company's ABC News division to start an English-language cable news channel has been made public. Though no announcement appears to be imminent, the television-news industry is now abuzz over the possibilities.

Discussion: paidContent, MediaPost, The Huffington Post, C21Media, MediaPost, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Money …, TVWeek.com and Company Town

Technology Review:

How to Predict The Spread of News on Twitter — Computer scientists have discovered the four factors that make news stories popular on Twitter — Twitter has revolutionised the way millions of people receive news and the type of news they get. So it's no surprise that there is huge interest …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and The FJP

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Media Research Center blasts networks for not covering Obama's ‘attack on religious freedom’ — The group that launched a $5 million campaign to combat liberal bias in the media last month sent a letter late Monday to network chiefs at ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, blasting the collective lack …

Discussion: mediabistro.com