Mediagazer: HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Startup Aims at CNN, Fox (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

5:25 PM ET, March 27, 2012

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Investigation will have made interesting viewing for Ofcom's News Corp team — Panorama's computer-hacking revelations come at a time when News Corporation's relationship with the satellite broadcaster BSkyB is already under scrutiny from the broadcast regulator, Ofcom.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Radio & Television … and Guardian

Neil Chenoweth / Australian Finance Review: Whistleblower made to change his tune

James Cusick / The Independent: From Sicily to the US courts - the trail of evidence could hit Murdoch where it hurts

Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:
Free to air: dirty tricks broadcast for all to see

Discussion: @edgecliffe

BBC:
Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival

Discussion: ITProPortal, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, The Verge and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Startup Aims at CNN, Fox — Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again. The Huffington Post co-founder, who sold his site to AOL a year ago, is working on another Web news startup.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Betabeat, NetNewsCheck Latest and Business Insider

David Gambacorta / Philly.com:

35 more jobs in jeopardy at papers, website — If misery does indeed love company, it would probably be right at home at Philadelphia Media Network Inc. — Managers of the company, which owns the Daily News, Inquirer, philly.com and SportsWeek, have proposed cutting 35 jobs within the next six months …

Discussion: Poynter and The Newspaper Guild

Associated Press: Perelman Drops out of Philly Newspaper Group

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Inquirer publishes investigation of possible future owner; also, a report of more layoffs

Discussion: Philly.com and newsworks

Press Gazette:

NoW's James Desborough released without charge — Former News of the World US editor James Desborough was today told he faces no further action in Scotland Yard's phone-hacking probe. — Desborough was held in August last year on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications for the now defunct Sunday tabloid.

Discussion: Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and @hughes_mark

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Blackhurst: Why Leveson Inquiry is ‘deepy flawed’

Discussion: @hughes_mark, @skynewsbreak, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

BBC News cuts: 140 posts to go — BBC News journalists have been told about 140 posts are to go and programmes including Radio 4 current affairs output cut as part of the “Delivering Quality First” cost savings. BBC2's Newsnight and the BBC News Channel will be affected by the cuts …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Press Gazette

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Mohamed Nanabhay on Al Jazeera's online growth and the future of news distribution — Mohamed Nanabhay likes to talk about something he calls “distributed distribution,” which, aside from being delightfully alliterative, might be a kind of rallying cry for the future of media.

Discussion: @evanchill

Radu Tyrsina / ITProPortal:

Gannett Buys 1,000 iPhones For Journalists — iPhone, an important journalistic tool — The Gannett organisation, considered to be a leader in mobile journalism, bought over 1,000 iPhone 4S smartphones for print and broadcast journalists as day-to-day tools.

Discussion: Politico and Gannett Blog

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Boston Globe Launches ‘ePaper,’ Brings Digital Replica of Print to iPad, iPod — The Boston Globe launched on Tuesday a digital replica of its daily newspaper, “The Boston Globe ePaper,” available both from its subscription-based website and as a standalone app on the iPad and iPhone.

Discussion: Media Nation, Boston Globe and NetNewsCheck Latest

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

OC Register plans to “news mob” the Angels opener — The Orange County Register is really, really officially excited about the Angels season opening on April 6. Sure, it has happened every April for 51 years already. But this year the team has arguably baseball's biggest star in Albert Pujols.

Discussion: FishbowlLA

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Jill Abramson talks Israel-Iran coverage — The New York Times has turned out a great deal of coverage in recent weeks over the potential conflict between Israel and Iran, a highly charged and heavily scrutinized topic that always earns criticism from voices on both the left and the right.

Discussion: Capital New York

Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:

How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest — While Pinterest is taking many newsrooms by storm, there may still be some editors who are hesitant or unsure about how to go about using the online scrapbooking site. Why not take a page — or in this case a board — from The Wall Street Journal?

Discussion: Talking Biz News and SocialTimes

Center for Investigative Reporting:

Center for Investigative Reporting merging with The Bay Citizen — Today, we're announcing a merger between the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen. — The merger will create the largest nonprofit organization in the country focused on watchdog and accountability journalism …

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Bob Sapio Out at Daily News — The Daily News said goodbye to managing editor Robert Sapio on Friday, according to newsroom sources. — His departure marks the end of a 40-plus-year career at the News. Mr. Sapio first joined the tabloid as an advertising office boy in 1969.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Life after ‘Vice’: Former editor Jesse Pearson talks about his new magazine with fellow alum McPheeters — After more than seven years as editor of Vice, Jesse Pearson left the place in late 2010 just as its parent company, Vice Media, was really starting to soar.

Discussion: Gawker and FishbowlLA