Mediagazer: Investor Group Again Urges Sotheby's to Remove James Murdoch From Board (Amy Chozick/Media Decoder)

9:25 AM ET, March 1, 2012

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Met arrests 32-year-old Sun reporter — Virginia Wheeler has been arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials as part of Operation Elveden — A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials, by detectives from the Metropolitan police's Operation Elveden.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and @dansabbagh

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Executives Weighed Spinoff of Newspaper Publishing, Carey Says

Discussion: paidContent:UK, Business Insider, @dansabbagh, The Huffington Post, Noted and Capital New York

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Brooks ‘had her phone hacked twice a week’

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Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Leveson Inquiry: phone hacking police identified 418 potential victims in 2006

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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Investor Group Again Urges Sotheby's to Remove James Murdoch From Board — James Murdoch's resignation from News International amid heightened scrutiny over his handling of the unit's newspapers in Britain could hurt his position within companies beyond News Corporation.

Discussion: Guardian

Dominic Rushe / Guardian: News Corp shareholders step up bid to oust James Murdoch

Steve Myers / Poynter:
James Murdoch resignation revives News Corp. succession parlor game

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Business Wire:
James Murdoch Steps Down as Executive Chairman, News International to Focus on Expanding International TV Businesses

Erik Wemple:

Vanity Fair on Washington Post: Old story, new copy — Vanity Fair has completed its long-awaited big-time look at the toils of the Washington Post. Sorry, readers, no link: Vanity Fair sent the piece on the condition that the URL not be shared. — Written by Sarah Ellison, the piece is as much history as current events.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Jim Romenesko:
Vanity Fair profiles Washington Post

Discussion: Poynter

Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:

Whatever Happened to Ted Turner? — The “Mouth of the South” is no longer as he devotes his time (and $1 billion) to the U.N., jets between 28 homes and four girlfriends, misses Jane Fonda and opens up to THR about Rupert, Jerry and his abuse as a child. Says a friend: “He's definitely changed.”

Discussion: New York Magazine, Mediaite, Chickaboomer, Washington Post, TVNewser and The Daily Caller

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

How journalism has changed - Guardian ‘3 pigs’ video says it better than anything — There's something almost seminal about this video promoting The Guardian's ‘open journalism’. I'm not sure whether it's the unusually honest acknowledgement that news is more complicated than it is often presented …

Discussion: AndyDickinson.net, Blogposts, Guardian, 10,000 Words and FleetStreetBlues

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

A.J. Daulerio Tells Us About The New State Of Gawker — With the new year also came a new editor of Gawker, Gawker Media's flagship site. — A.J. Daulerio took over Gawker's sports blog Deadspin from Will Leitch and turned it into a major player in terms of both news and audience.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT guild members have ‘quiet’ protest outside Page One meeting — Newspaper Guild members at The New York Times received this notice Tuesday: … Quiet protest, everybody! Sorry: (quiet protest, everybody). You can vigorously rustle your copy of the Observer, or tap out a polite tweet on your phone (keyboard clicks off, please).

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

BBC World Service Opens Newsroom to Public in Live Broadcast — The BBC World Service broadcast its daily morning editorial meeting live for the first time Wednesday as part of a series of public events commemorating its 80th birthday. — A recording of the 55-minute meeting …

Steven Church / Bloomberg:

Tribune Paid Bankruptcy Advisers $233.3 Million Since Filing in 2008 — Tribune Co. (TRB), the biggest news media company in bankruptcy, paid lawyers and other advisers $233.3 million since filing for court protection from creditors in December 2008. — The two main law firms …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If you think Twitter doesn't break news, you're living in a dream world — One of the signs of how much Twitter and other social tools are disrupting media is the strenuous argument about how they aren't doing this at all — including the repeated assertion that “Twitter doesn't break news.”

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

With Starz exiting, Netflix loses access to live TV — Netflix customers won't just lose access to movies like Tangled and Toy Story 3 this week due to the end of the company's deal with pay TV network Starz. Subscribers also don't have access to the Starz live feed anymore …

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Bloomberg's Abelson on How Wall Street Is Coping — Bloomberg's Max Abelson has the story of the day, another entry in his list of stories on out-of-touch Wall Streeters. This one's about how rich folks are coping with their reduced circumstances in a season of curtailed bonuses.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Capital New York and Gawker

Josh Stearns / Save the News:

Public Television: We're #1! — For the ninth year in a row, public television has ranked as the most trusted institution in America, trumping all other forms of media, the courts and the federal government. — This news comes after a bruising year for public media.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook Pitches Advertisers on a New Ad Model — Facebook sold $3 billion worth of ads last year, but it's still feeling its way around the ad business. — And the ad business still isn't sure what to make of Facebook: Grand new marketing paradigm, or a collection of 800 million people …