Mediagazer: Engadget Editorial Director Heads to TMZ (Felicia Pride/FishbowlNY)

12:30 PM ET, February 23, 2012

Top News:

James Barron / New York Times:

Marie Colvin's Mother Recalls Her Determination to Get the Story — Marie Colvin got into Yale University the way she would later get into foreign countries, with grit and determination. — After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, from January of her junior year …

Discussion: BBC, Washington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Media Decoder, @jenanmoussa, CNN and Freelance Unbound

Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Wounded Journalists Plead for Evacuation From Homs

Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News: In the wake of reporter deaths in Syria, White House grilled on aggressive journalism at home

Expatica:
French paper trying to contact reporter hurt in Syria

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Syria Correspondent Wanted Her Reporting Read Outside Pay Walls

Discussion: New York Times, BAGnewsNotes, The Wrap, Guardian, Press Gazette, City Room, USA Today, At War, ShortFormBlog and Telegraph

Erika Solomon / Reuters: Wounded French reporter at risk of bleeding to death - activists

Kerri Macdonald / Lens:
Parting Glance: Rémi Ochlik

Discussion: New York Times, Press Gazette and Media News

Josh Halliday / @joshhalliday:

Other new hacking claims against News Group over alleged hacking about to be made public.

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Charlotte Church settles phone-hacking case — Details of deal between star and News of the World publisher to be announced in court next week — Charlotte Church has settled her civil action against News International and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over alleged voicemail interception by the News of the World.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk and Guardian

Sarah Limbrick / Press Gazette:

Colin Stagg sues News Int over phone-hacking — Colin Stagg, a former murder suspect in the killing of model Rachel Nickell, has become the latest person to sue News International over allegations relating to the phone-hacking scandal. — Nickell was stabbed 49 times before her body …

The Huffington Post - UK: Andy Coulson Loses Bid To Make Murdoch Pay Legal Costs

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Murdoch confirms Sun on Sunday will be 50p — Rupert Murdoch takes to Twitter to announce price of new Sunday edition, plus a price reduction for Saturday's paper — Rupert Murdoch has taken to Twitter to confirm that the Sun's new Sunday edition will cost 50p. He also announced a 17% cut in price for the Saturday Sun.

Discussion: Media Week and @rupertmurdoch

John Plunkett / Guardian: Times and Sunday Times digital subscriptions to double in price

Todd Wasserman / Mashable!:

Google to Launch TV Service — Google is looking to get into the paid TV business. — The company filed an application last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas City, Mo., according to The Wall Street Journal. If approved, the service could launch as soon as a month from now …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, business.time.com, Business Insider, Media Week, Los Angeles Times, C21Media, VentureBeat, Electronista and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:

Ethical or Not, Silicon Valley Bloggers Hit Up VCs for Angel Funds — It's a win-win game: Bloggers write favorably about both sides' portfolios, and everyone exits with 100x returns. Even social media maven Robert Scoble is getting in on the game. But whatever happened to journalistic integrity?

Discussion: Real Dan Lyons, more at Techmeme »

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley?

more at Techmeme »

Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Are Silicon Valley tech bloggers truly objective?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Uncrunched, Real Dan Lyons, parislemon and VentureBeat

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

AP unveils new logo for first time in 30 years — The Associated Press announced a new logo this morning, an update of the one that's perched elegantly atop stylebooks for 30 years. The letters are now black, the “A” no longer leans against the “P” in an avuncular fashion, and both letters are on the same baseline.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and PRNewser

The Baron:

Reuters changes editorial priorities in quest for Pulitzers — Reuters is adopting a new editorial approach aimed at winning Pulitzer Prizes: long, in-depth, investigative special reports from all bureaux. In the longer term the organisation will have fewer journalists; they will be better paid.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question — The battle between traditional media and the blogosphere over aggregation (or “curation,” if you prefer) continues to rage. In the latest skirmish, Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill got thrown under the bus by many for a recent blog post …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Betabeat and Journomel.com, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online close to 100m users — Associated Newspapers network remains world's most popular newspaper website with more than 99m monthly browsers — Mail Online had a shade under 100 million monthly browsers in January, as the traffic growth of the world's most popular newspaper website showed no sign of stopping.

Discussion: Media Week and Press Gazette

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative — I wrote back in November that the tax man was making it harder for the nonprofit-news movement to flourish or even survive. — Now the IRS figures prominently in the downfall of a major nonprofit news organization, the Chicago News Cooperative.

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur

Jim Romenesko:
CNC editor: No MacArthur Foundation interference

Discussion: Chicago Current

Jim Romenesko: Did CNC ‘cause problems’ for MacArthur's City Hall friends?

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Media General explores sale of its newspapers — Just after the market closed Wednesday, Media General announced it is “exploring the potential sale of newspaper operations.” The company, which owns 21 newspapers in five states, just two weeks ago got more time to ease a debt crunch it's been facing.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, St. Petersburg Times, Media General and Saint Petersblog

Felicia Pride / FishbowlNY:

Engadget Editorial Director Heads to TMZ — After hearing from a source that Joshua Fruhlinger is leaving his position as editorial director for Engadget, Joystiq and TUAW to oversee digital at TMZ, Mario Ruiz, spokesperson for Huffington Post Media Group confirmed Fruhlinger's departure.

Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:

Romney Campaign Scrubs Criticism from Editorial Before Sending It Out — Romney Campaign Scrubs Criticism From Editorial Before Sending It Out — There are a lot of kind words for Mitt Romney on the Detroit News editorial page Wednesday. But by trying to hide the few words that weren't very nice …

Discussion: Guardian, The Caucus and Online NewsHour