Mediagazer: J-prof's class material creates controversy (Jim Romenesko)

7:10 AM ET, March 2, 2012

Top News:

Simone Wilson / The Informer:

Andrew Breitbart Was Planning Huge New Web Project on Eve of Sudden Death — Forty-three-year-old Andrew Breitbart's shocking death in Westwood last night came just days before he was set to unveil a mysterious new project — one he hoped would mark “a transition into a different kind of journalism …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, L.A. NOW and Guy Fawkes' blog

Larry Solov / Big Journalism:

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) — With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart. — Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. — We have lost a husband, a father, a son …

Jack Shafer:

Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) — You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, a rule I always ignore when somebody famous or newsworthy dies. If we shouldn't be overly sentimental about death because we all die anyway, what better time to assess a life than when it ends …

Discussion: Poynter, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, MarketWatch and The Atlantic Wire

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Breitbart Friend Reveals To Hannity: Obama Harvard Tapes Will Be Out ‘In A Week Or Two’ — On his program Thursday, Fox News' Sean Hannity spoke with Steve Bannon (producer of The Undefeated, among various other films) about a series of tapes Andrew Breitbart claimed to have about Barack Obama.

Discussion: Hot Air

Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Andrew Breitbart built Internet empire by combining new media, partisan slant

Media Decoder:
Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Blogger, Dies at 43

Discussion: Mixed Media, Erik Wemple, Klein Online, paidContent, Mediaite, Multichannel, Mother Jones, The New Yorker Blog, Speakeasy, Cision, Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, The FJP, Guardian and Omnivoracious

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Conservative media colleagues Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, Chris Ruddy, Glenn Beck remember Breitbart

Discussion: Mail Online, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Rush Limbaugh, Truthdig, American Spectator, Caleb's blog, Mediaite and National Review

Brad Stone / Business Week:

Twitter, the Startup That Wouldn't Die — Life inside successful Web startups—especially the really successful ones—can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo — Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, media mogul Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channels to internet devices for $12 a month. This week, broadcasters offered their opinion …

Discussion: Aereo Blog, Media Decoder, Business Insider, SlashGear, Mashable!, Digital Media Wire, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, The Verge, Multichannel, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Pearson Has Capacity to Make $1.6 Billion in Acquisitions as Digital Grows — Pearson Plc (PSON), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper, has headroom for 1 billion pounds of acquisitions ($1.6 billion) as e-books and digital publishing drive revenue growth.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Yates wined and dined with NoW staff — Officer who decided against reopening investigation in 2009 says he was ‘good friend’ of News of the World's Neil Wallis — The Scotland Yard officer who decided against reopening the phone-hacking investigation in 2009 was a “good friend” …

Reuters:
Leveson Inquiry Preparing To Call Rupert Murdoch

Discussion: Deadline.com and New York Magazine

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Met arrests 32-year-old Sun reporter

Discussion: Reuters, @dansabbagh, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Sky News:

Injured French Journalist Escapes Syria — French journalist Edith Bouvier suffered serious leg injuries — The journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have left Syria and are now safely in Lebanon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said. — The pair, who were both working …

Discussion: Reuters

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC News to Expand Presence on Radio — NBC News, the top-rated network news division on television, is eying growth opportunities in an old-fashioned medium, radio. — In an expansion of an existing relationship, the news division said on Thursday that its radio distributor, Dial Global …

Discussion: Beet.TV, AllAccess.com and Inside Cable News

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Guardian says open journalism is the only way forward — If there's one newspaper that has stood apart from the crowd in terms of its eagerness to embrace a digital-media world, it is The Guardian in Britain. The paper was one of the first to make user-generated content — and crowdsourcing …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Data Miner UK, AndyDickinson.net and Adweek, Thanks:@mathewi

Jim Romenesko:

J-prof's class material creates controversy — included her police incident report, her Facebook and Twitter profiles, court proceedings and other material. (She was arrested in January for public intoxication, minor in consumption, resisting law enforcement and criminal mischief.)

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Martha Stewart Turns To iPad Editions, Video As Revenues Fall — As revenues fall, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) plans to focus on some digital initiatives at its magazines, including releasing iPad editions of Whole Living and Martha Stewart Weddings by the end of the year.

Discussion: Thomson IR and Folio

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘New York Post’ loses its web editor, who goes to work for a former ‘Post’ editor — The New York Post has lost a high-ranking editor to one of its former high-ranking editors. — Erle Norton, the editor of the newspaper's website, has resigned after four-and-a-half years at the helm of nypost.com, Capital has learned.

Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:

‘Fox & Friends’ Expanding by an Hour (Exclusive) — Buoyed by ratings growth, Fox News Channel increases its morning flagship's airtime to four hours. — Starting Monday, Fox & Friends will be one-hour friendlier. — The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusivity that the Fox News Channel …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer and TVNewser

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Kim DotCom: Why didn't MPAA sue me? — The MegaUpload founder says his attorneys told him his service was legal. In 7 years, he never got so much as a cease-and-desist letter from any major copyright owner. — MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom from his interview with New Zealand's 3 News.com.

Discussion: Softpedia News, TorrentFreak and The Next Web