Mediagazer: When Republishing Goes Really Wrong: The Random Longreads Generator (Matt Buchanan/Buzzfeed)

8:10 AM ET, April 4, 2012

Top News:

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

News International misses deadline to file its accounts — News International has failed to meet the Companies House deadline to file its accounts and has asked for a month's extension. — The company, which trades under the name of NI Group Ltd, made the request following its failure …

Discussion: Media Week

Lucy Manning / ITV:

Report likely to accuse hacking witnesses of misleading parliament — ITV News understands the Select Committee report into phone hacking is likely to find some witnesses have misled Parliament. There's little doubt James Murdoch, who resigned as chairman of BSkyB today …

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp shareholders renew call for Rupert Murdoch to step down

Discussion: business.time.com, Media Week, AllThingsD and Guardian

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
James Murdoch quits another News Corp group to spare BSkyB from fall-out

Discussion: CNN, Sky News, Company Town, Sky News, Guardian, BBC, Multichannel, Media Matters for America, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media & Entertainment, Press Gazette, Globe and Mail, Free Press, Poynter and @mediaguardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
News Corp. Still Backing James Murdoch

Discussion: Media News, Guardian, Media Week, Company Town and Telegraph

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Inc. Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith Launch “Netflix For Magazines” — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Digital Magazines” consortium made up of the biggest names in publishing? It has finally delivered something worth talking about: Call it Netflix for Magazines.

Discussion: Media News, Media Decoder, The New York Observer, eMedia Vitals, ZDNet, Adweek, TechCrunch, Techland, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, Forbes, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, @pkafka, Digits and paidContent

Matt Buchanan / Buzzfeed:

When Republishing Goes Really Wrong: The Random Longreads Generator — You are looking at piece written by Maud Newton for The Awl. But you're not seeing it on The Awl. This screencap is The Long Reader, a “Random #LongReads Generator!” It has fully duplicated the content of another website …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Instapaper, Readability and monetizing other people's content — There's been a minor furor brewing in the digital-content sphere over the past few days involving Readability, an app and web service that allows readers to save content from any website and read it later …

Discussion: Melville House Books, The Brooks Review and Daring Fireball

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

ASME chief responds to criticism of magazine awards — Sid Holt, the chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors, says criticisms about how few women were named as finalists for this year's National Magazine Awards are “kind of silly.” — In an email, Holt outlines the awards' process …

Discussion: NY Daily News

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
2012 National Magazine Awards nominees announced

Discussion: MPA, mediabistro.com, @lilianasegura, WWD Media Headlines, The New York Observer, Folio, Adweek, bookforum.com and FishbowlNY

Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Women and the National Magazine Awards

Discussion: Culture, JIMROMENESKO.COM, magCulture.com/blog, @beccarosen and Poynter

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through' — Making his first public statements since being fired from his Current TV anchor position last week, Keith Olbermann told David Letterman Tuesday night that he considered quitting 10 days into the job …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, New York Magazine and TVNewser

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Letterman and Ferguson Extend Runs on CBS

Discussion: msnbc.com, The Daily Beast, Show Tracker, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, TVNewser, Media & Entertainment, Adweek, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable and Splitsider

Andy Boyle:

Stop Calling It A Blog, Please — News organizations, can we all do ourselves a favor? We should stop calling things “blogs.” I know, that probably stings a little, but let me try and explain why. — A little history first: In the early days of News Organizations On The Internet …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Associated Press partners with Bambuser to bring citizen journalists' videos to the masses — Video-broadcasting service Bambuser was one of our top media apps of 2011, partly due to the role it played in helping to mobilize citizen journalists across the Middle East during the various periods of political uprisings.

Discussion: Broadcast and Cision

Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter Needs to Find a Way to Monetize Big News Events — Twitter will need to think beyond advertisements and find better ways to capitalize on breaking news events if it wants to remain a dominant communication player, according to a startup and marketing expert interviewed by ReadWriteWeb.

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Ex-Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer gets nearly $20 million — (Reuters) - Former Thomson Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer will walk away with almost $20 million in compensation, including $3.1 million in severance to be paid over two years, according to a regulatory filing.

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why the Denver Post is putting more local news on A1 — Denver Post editor Greg Moore penned a surprising announcement on the front page of the print edition today: “Every day except Sunday, the front page and the first part of Section A generally will be devoted to our metro report …

Discussion: Denver Post, The Latest Word and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Why Variety's street value has plummeted in 4 years — Four years ago, Dutch-Anglo publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) put its 107-year-old showbiz trade paper, Variety, on the auction block. It ultimately failed to find a buyer willing in the middle of a global recession to pay …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch and son James expected at Leveson inquiry — Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch are expected to be summoned to the inquiry into press ethics within weeks after Lord Justice Leveson announced he would be calling in newspaper owners to give evidence between now and the middle of May.

Discussion: Media Week

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Leveson inquiry: Rebekah Brooks reapplies for core participant status

Discussion: Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Ex-Met police boss John Yates attended News of the World reporter's wedding

Discussion: Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

‘Today’ Tops ‘Good Morning America’ With Katie Couric On First Day — The ratings for the first day of the intense morning show war between the morning shows and the winner is... “Today.” The NBC morning show came in 333,000 viewers ahead of “GMA” on Monday, according to Nielsen.