Mediagazer: Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music? (Matthew Bryan Beck/Mashable!)

5:15 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, Poynter, GigaOM, Charlie Beckett, Anthony De Rosa, @antderosa, @justinnxt, @wyredavies, @lheron, @robertmackey, FleetStreetBlues, The Atlantic Wire, @rosschawkins, @dansabbagh, @joshhalliday, The Next Web, Boing Boing and Inside

Ben Fenton / blogs.ft.com:

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

Discussion: The Wall Blog

Reuters:

U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments — (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police …

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

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

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

BBC:
Phone hacking: Met police failed to warn victims

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph: Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre to be recalled to Leveson Inquiry

BBC: Leveson Inquiry: Press watchdog ‘made a scapegoat’

Daily Mail:

BREAKING NEWS: TV anchor Greg Kelly ‘will NOT be charged with rape’ — TV newsman Greg Kelly will not be charged with rape by Manhattan prosecutors, according to a new report. — The Good Day New York news anchor and son of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was accused of raping …

Discussion: New York Times and Gawker

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, New York Magazine, Mediaite and FishbowlNY

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, Capital New York, Adweek, Canadian Magazines, NewsBulletin Connection, Media Decoder and The Huffington Post

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

Discussion: Folio, Globe and Mail and NewsBulletin Connection

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

New York Observer Publisher Jared Kushner Might Buy The Dodgers — Jared Kushner — owner and publisher of the New York Observer, son-in-law of Donald Trump — is in the running to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times reports. — If his bid went through, he would become the youngest owner in the MLB.

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

Elizabeth Spiers / spiers.tumblr.com:
The New York Observer, One Year In

Discussion: Felix Salmon

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

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

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Bay Citizen appoints interim CEO while awaiting word on merger

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Bay Citizen and @jayrosen_nyu

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: MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent, The Wrap, Media Money …, Company Town, TVWeek.com and Chickaboomer

Dylan Byers / Politico:
The ABC News-Univision game change

Discussion: rbr.com, Company Town, AdAge and Wall Street Journal

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: The McClatchy Company

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: Nieman Journalism Lab and @alexismadrigal

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

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: The FJP

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.

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

Erik Wemple:
Four reasons why Ross Douthat's media-bias argument is bunk

Discussion: Washington Post, The New York Observer, Journalism.org, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Mediaite, LifeNews.com and New York Times

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments — McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company's fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts' predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an overall boost from investments in online properties like Cars.com and Apartments.com.

Discussion: Poynter and MediaPost