Mediagazer: I can't stop reading this analysis of Gawker's editorial strategy (Andrew Phelps/Nieman Journalism Lab)

8:50 PM ET, March 21, 2012

Top News:

John Cook / Gawker:

There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Larger Truth’: This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment — Mike Daisey has been roundly and justly castigated for selling his bulls**t stories about visiting the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China, to This American Life.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Slate, PopWatch, Culture Monster, Harper's and Melville House Books

Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Mike Daisey Blames Other Reporters for Perpetuating His Lies

Discussion: CNN and The Huffington Post

Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the ‘This American Life’ Retraction

Discussion: The Stranger …, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

I can't stop reading this analysis of Gawker's editorial strategy — In January, newly minted Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio announced an experiment: Each day for two weeks, a single staff writer would be assigned “traffic-whoring duty.” [Language alert.]

Discussion: Gawker, Online Journalism Blog and News for Digital Journalists

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Brooks Said to Be Quizzed by Police on Defense Official Payment — Rebekah Brooks, the former Chief Executive Officer of News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. publishing unit, was questioned by police about payments made to a source at the Ministry of Defence, a person familiar with the investigation said.

Discussion: Guardian

Martin Brunt / @skymartinbrunt:
#policebungs Ex-News Int chief exec Rebekah Brooks rebailed over illegal payments to public officials. Bailed until May.

Discussion: Milton Keynes Citizen

@skynewsbreak: PA sources: Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks questioned about alleged payments to MoD officials

Tim Walker / Telegraph: Rupert Murdoch makes Roman Abramovich ‘an offer’ to buy his newspaper titles

Village Voice:

What Nick Kristof Got Wrong: Village Voice Media Responds — Nicholas D. Kristof was wrong about the most devastating ‘fact’ in his Sunday, March 18th, column in The New York Times regarding Backpage.com. — He wrote about an underage victim of human trafficking: “Alissa says pimps routinely peddled her on Backpage.”

Discussion: Poynter, Runnin' Scared, The Huffington Post and Erik Wemple

Nicholas Kristof / On The Ground:

Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking — After my Sunday column criticizing Village Voice Media for providing a forum for sex traffickers on its Backpage.com websites, Village Voice has struck back. It has just gone on line with an article “What Nick Kristof got wrong”: — The article begins:

Discussion: Hit & Run, WebProNews, FrontBurner and Forbes

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Los Angeles Times Cuts Staff Again (Exclusive) — The Los Angeles Times let go more than a dozen staffers on Tuesday as part of another round of layoffs and buyouts primarily hitting the editorial side of the paper, TheWrap has learned. — TheWrap previously reported that this round …

Discussion: LA Observed

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Tributes paid to Los Angeles Times' first woman reporter

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and LA Observed

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *

Discussion: The Wrap and Talking Biz News

Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:

Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver — The Guardian's Facebook app has been downloaded eight million times since it was launched six months ago, seeing around 40,000 downloads a day. — Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, Tanya Cordrey …

Discussion: @antderosa

Stephen Folwell / Guardian:
Guardian app for Google TV: an introduction

Discussion: The Next Web

Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:

BSkyB CEO confirms he pulled Sky News story on F1 — Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, has confirmed that he asked Sky News to pull a story on Formula 1, ahead of the launch of a Sky F1 HD channel. — The Financial Times yesterday reported that Darroch …

Discussion: Digital Spy

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
BSkyB announces Now TV, offering pay-as-you-go Internet TV to the masses

Discussion: Guardian and The Verge

Mark Sweney / Guardian: BSkyB denies pulled F1 story undermines Sky News's independence

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Former Roll Call Editor Spills Beans About Questionable Racial Hiring Practices — UPDATE: Roll Call Editorial Director Mike Mills Responds. — Roll Call's former Features Editor Debra Bruno (a.k.a. Bebbie Druno) is bound to burn a few bridges today with a story in the Opinion Pages …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Debra Bruno / Christian Science Monitor: Facebook stalking in the name of affirmative action

Erik Wemple:

Jason Mattera interviews someone — is it Bono? — Jason Mattera, editor at large at Human Events, is famous for rough-and-tumble journalism. Last year he created a sensation when he pulled something of a fast one on Vice President Biden. He distracted the veep by pretending he wanted to pose for a picture with him.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, New York Magazine, TheBlaze.com, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Business Insider, Distriction, Rolling Stone, The Stranger … and Gawker

Associated Press:

Gary Pruitt of McClatchy new AP president, CEO — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has announced that Gary Pruitt, a former First Amendment lawyer who heads the third-largest newspaper company in the U.S., will become the news cooperative's next president and CEO.

Discussion: Poynter and Sacramento Bee

Longreads:

Introducing Travelreads: The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic — One of the coolest things about Longreads is when someone tweets: … This got us thinking: What if we started gathering the best #longreads for every destination in the world?

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Adweek and AdAge

Jim Romenesko:

CNN's Chapin named NPR Senior Foreign Editor — Edith Chapin is leaving CNN to become NPR News Senior Foreign Editor. Since 2007, she's been the cable news network's vice president and deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C. NPR says “she brings a critical constellation of skills to this job …

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlDC

Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:

Toasting the Columbia Journalism Review at 50 — Looking back at a half century of conversation and criticism at a publication that believes journalism matters — The Columbia Journalism Review is in the midst of its 50th anniversary year, a considerable achievement.

Amanda Bennett / Nieman Watchdog:

Lessons learned from a period of intense newspaper turmoil — Between September 2001 and November 2006, I was editor of two Knight Ridder papers, first the Lexington Herald-Leader and then The Philadelphia Inquirer. It was a period of intense turmoil. Today Knight Ridder no longer exists.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, paidContent, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Newspaper Guild

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

The Good And Bad News From The Latest Pay TV Subscriber Figures — The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry grew by 380,000 in 2011. The bad news? Growth of satellite and telco subscriptions …

Discussion: Multichannel

Lauren Effron / ABC News:

Tina Brown Says Newsweek/Daily Beast Isn't ‘Making Money Yet’ — There were many skeptics when the 79-year-old news magazine “Newsweek” merged with the upstart website The Daily Beast in 2010 under the leadership of Tina Brown. Could two media outlets, both loosing money, be combined into a financially sound operation?

Discussion: ABCNEWS and FishbowlNY