Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:05 PM ET, February 8, 2012

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
The Independent:
Sunday Mirror chief authorised hacking, says blogger Guido Fawkes  —  Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver personally authorised hacking and blagging, political blogger Paul Staines told the inquiry into press standards today.  Mr Staines, who blogs as Guido Fawkes, told the Leveson Inquiry he had heard the claims from two journalists.
Discussion: Guardian
RELATED:
Martin Beckford / Telegraph:
News International scandal: police paid £100,000 under false names  —  Police officers were paid more than £100,000 by News International journalists who hid their true identities in company records, it is claimed.  —  Contacts are alleged to have been paid under £1,000 …
Discussion: The Independent
Henry Clarke Price / @henrycp:
Trinity Mirror not commenting on @GuidoFawkes #leveson claims about Sunday Mirror ed Tina Weaver allegedly authorising hacking and blagging
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:   News Corp team accused of risking journalist sources
Guardian:   NI faces more than 50 new damages claims
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why we are buying paidContent  —  First the news: Yes, the rumors are true.  We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited.  And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org …
RELATED:
Alexia Tsotsis / Techcrunch:
GigaOm Acquires PaidContent
Discussion: @tcarmody and AdAge
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Nice Guy, Finishing Last: How Don Graham Fumbled the Washington Post Co.  —  In the next few months Facebook will go public at a rumored valuation of up to $100 billion, one of the most keenly anticipated business events ever.  The instant that trading opens, Mark Zuckerberg and a handful …
RELATED:
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Washington Post Will Further Reduce Staff
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Brauchli to Washington Post staff: More with less!
Jim Romenesko:
Notes from the Washington Post newsroom meeting
Discussion: City Desk
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Roland Martin suspended for homophobic tweets  —  On Super Bowl Sunday, Roland Martin of CNN issued some homophobic tweets that got him in trouble with gay organizations and this blog.  CNN stayed silent on the matter, until just moments ago, when it issued this statement:
RELATED:
Dylan Byers / Politico:   CNN suspends Martin; not Loesch, Erickson
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Chicago Tribune eyes price tag for online news  —  (Crain's) — The Chicago Tribune will begin charging online readers for access to content and is considering a “creative way” to do that, said Gerould Kern, the paper's editor.  —  “I think we will begin to charge in a selective way,” …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
News Corp.'s PhoneGate Tab Keeps Rising  —  News Corp. says investigations into the PhoneGate scandal cost it $87 million in the last quarter.  That's on top of a $91 million charge the company took when it shuttered the News of the World in the previous quarter.
RELATED:
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Q2 Profit Rises on Higher TV Fees
Peter Lauria / Reuters:
AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch  —  (Reuters) - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.
RELATED:
Jim Romenesko:
Patch to reduce staff, change editorial focus
Jim Romenesko:   ‘There are no layoffs planned,’ says Patch
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Amazon Prime subscribers will get access to Viacom TV shows  —  Amazon has closed a deal with the media conglomerate Viacom that will let its Prime subscribers stream new TV shows, the company announced today.  —  This announcement doesn't come as a surprise, and confirms recent rumors …
RELATED:
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Don't break stories on Twitter, BBC staff told  —  As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it  —  BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues.
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.
RELATED:
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
Discussion: New York Times
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Felix Dennis in treatment for throat cancer  —  The private office of Felix Dennis, the eccentric 65-year-old British publishing magnate who imported Maxim and The Week to the U.S., announced today that Dennis has cancer.  —  “Felix has been diagnosed with cancer of the pharynx (throat),” reads a statement posted on his website.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
End of Lance Armstrong probe raises questions about media's reporting  —  With little fanfare, federal prosecutors on Friday dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong, nearly two years after it began.  After convening a grand jury, summoning dozens of witnesses and involving several federal agencies …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Reuters UK journalists will not strike  —  Thompson Reuters has reached a deal with the National Union of Journalists, who will now call off a two-day strike scheduled to begin tonight at midnight.  —  “As you know, the National Union of Journalists had scheduled an industrial action to begin …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 7:05 PM ET, February 8, 2012.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Guardian:
Hugh Grant levels new accusations against the Daily Mail
Carly Carioli / Phlog:
Hi Bill Keller. The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue?
Discussion: Media Nation and Business Insider
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Forbes executive editor steps down
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Big Changes at Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Discussion: The Wrap
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Santorum Fundraiser Bankrolls Daily Caller
 Earlier Picks: 
John Koblin / WWD:
BuzzFeed Taps Amy Odell
Discussion: Fashionista
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Le Huffington Post Québec Launches
Patrick Thornton / Poynter:
How Siri, if opened up to third-party apps, could enhance news consumption
Erik Sass / MediaPost:
McClatchy Revenues Dip Nearly 8%
Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent
 

 
From Techmeme:

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page