Mediagazer: To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

2:30 PM ET, February 9, 2012

Top News:

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

The logic of a Thomson Reuters takeover of the Financial Times — It makes sense: the two titans of business information, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, competing for a great news brand — Let me follow a rumor in real time ... My lunch companion, a senior executive at Thomson Reuters …

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, @benfenton, @edmundlee and Talking Biz News

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

Reuters And Bloomberg Are Jockeying To Acquire The Financial Times — Michael Wolff — Two titans of international news, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, both would like to acquire pink British newspaper the Financial Times, according to Michael Wolff in The Guardian.

Dylan Byers / Politico: Caution on Thomson Reuters' FT acquisition

Greg Farrell / Business Week:

Dinner at Rupert's — What happened on the fateful night last May when Rupert Murdoch decided how News Corp. would manage its phone-hacking scandal? — An artist's imagining of the dinner at Murdoch's townhouse based on multiple attendees' accounts — Photo illustration by Justin Metz

Discussion: The New York Observer and The Corsair

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Piers Morgan and Trinity Mirror journalist implicated by Mills at Leveson — Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and an un-named former Trinity Mirror journalist were implicated by evidence from Heather Mills to the hacking inquiry today. — The former wife of Paul McCartney revealed …

Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette: Edmondson: ‘bullying’ at NoW under Coulson and Myler

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette: Leveson: NoW spied on lawyers to gain ‘leverage’

Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
NightJack blogger to sue the Times

Discussion: Telegraph, The Independent and Guardian

New York Post:

Bradley Manning arraignment scheduled for Feb. 23 — WASHINGTON — Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking confidential US diplomatic and military cables to WikiLeaks, will be arraigned Feb. 23, the military announced Thursday. — Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy …

Discussion: @edpilkington

NY Daily News:

‘Good Day’ co-anchor Greg Kelly to return to Channel 5 Friday morning — Had been off the air since Jan. 26 following rape allegations — Above, Greg Kelly seen Wednesday afternoon for the first time since a 28-year-old paralegal accused him of rape. Kelly will return to ‘Good Day New York’ on Friday.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Kelly accuser's memory of ‘rape’ but not of sex killed her case: sources

Discussion: Gawker, Capital New York and Chickaboomer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly — It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse—and hey, it could still happen. But a new decision from the American Booksellers Association's IndieCommerce …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The anti-Amazon revolt continues as the ABA boycotts its books

Discussion: Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller

Jim Romenesko:

Gannett offers early retirement package to 665 employees — FR: U.S. Community Publishing President Bob Dickey — RE: Voluntary Early Retirement Opportunity Program — Dear colleagues: — Today we are offering a voluntary Early Retirement Opportunity Program to 665 eligible U.S …

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

WaPo Evasive on Important Buyout Question — What if WaPo doesn't reach the necessary maximum number of voluntary buyouts? — Some who attended the Town Hall style meetings yesterday at the newspaper found Exec. Editor Marcus Brauchli's comments too vague for comfort on this point.

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

Amazon: No plans to launch a standalone video service soon — Amazon has aggressively grown its Prime Instant Videos service over the past year, more than tripling the amount of content available to subscribers since launch. And as Amazon continues to add more content to Prime Instant Video …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Media & Entertainment

Julie Moos / Poynter:

CNN's Roland Martin agrees to meet with GLAAD after homophobic tweets — Just hours after he was suspended from CNN for homophobic tweets sent during the Super Bowl, Roland Martin said he would meet with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which had been pushing for his firing since Sunday.

Discussion: GLAAD, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Big Journalism, msnbc.com and Media Law Prof Blog

Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN suspends Martin; not Loesch, Erickson

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Big Journalism, Erik Wemple and Washington Post

Sam Laird / Mashable!:

ESPN's ‘Complain About Women’ Option Exposed by Twitter User — Until Tuesday, ESPN had a special section on its website for viewers to complain specifically about announcers who happen to be female. — “Commentator — dislike female commentators,” read one option in a drop-down menu …

Discussion: Deadspin, Poynter and The Big Lead

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Mike Huckabee to Begin Radio Show — Rush Limbaugh will soon have a new radio rival: Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who ran for the Republican presidential nomination four years ago and thought about running again this year. — Instead, he will be running a radio show weekdays …

Discussion: Media Decoder, TVNewser and Washington Post

Alfred Hermida / reportr.net:

Why Journalists Should Break News on Twitter — The world of journalism and Twitter is buzzing following Sky News's new policy on Twitter and the BBC's new guidance on breaking news. — Both organisations have told their journalists not to break news on Twitter. Instead news should be first sent to the newsroom.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition

Discussion: Guardian, Lost Remote, Future of Journalism, WebProNews and NewscastStudio Blog

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.