Mediagazer: Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal (Marc Berman/New York Post)

4:30 PM 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: NPR, AllThingsD and AllThingsD

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk: QC defends scope of original phone-hacking prosecution

Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's American media immunity

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Nieman Journalism Lab

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
DPP says there was ‘pushback’ from Met over hacking investigation

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Lucy Manning / ITV:
Report likely to accuse hacking witnesses of misleading parliament

Discussion: paidContent

Media Decoder:

New Philly Owners To Bring Back Marimow As Editor — William K. Marimow, who served as top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 2006 to 2010 will rejoin the paper in the same role in a move that is expected to be announced this afternoon. — His appointment comes days …

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Philly.com and Off Mic

Paul Nussbaum / Philly.com:
PMN's new owners meet the employees, discuss the future

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Stupid game lets you destroy parts of NYT story about stupid games — The Times has figured out a great way to increase time-on-site (and destroy our productivity) by illustrating a story about our obsession with “stupid games” with a game that lets you shoot and destroy parts of its website.

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, Betabeat, The 6th Floor, Engadget, AllThingsD and FishbowlNY

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New high score: How the NYT created its “stupid game”

Discussion: Co.Create

Marc Berman / New York Post:

Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal — Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly” drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.

Discussion: Capital New York, Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through'

Discussion: NPR, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine and TVNewser

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million in 2011 — Stephen J. Adler, the editor in chief of Reuters, received total compensation of $2.7 million in 2011, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Adler, who joined the company in 2010 after a stint as editor …

Jennifer Saba / Reuters: Ex-Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer gets nearly $20 million

David Barboza / New York Times:

Flattering News Coverage Has a Price in China — SHANGHAI — China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage. But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and broadcast media — if the price is right.

Discussion: Reason and Media Decoder

Associated Press:

Sarah Palin's guest spot fails to give ‘Today’ a ratings jolt as it battles runner-up ‘GMA’ — (NBC, Peter Kramer/Associated Press) - Sarah Palin, who is co-hosting NBC News' “Today” show, talks as Dr. Nancy Snyderman sits next to her in New York on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and TVNewser

Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:
Uncomfortable Matt Lauer interview with Ryan Seacrest a collision of brands and offscreen talks

Discussion: Gothamist and The Raw Story

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Reed Hastings Will Get His HBO Go as Comcast Nears Deal on Xbox — Updated Comcast and HBO are close to finalizing a deal to make the HBO Go app available on Xbox, according to several people familiar with the negotiations. — The app, which offers all of the pay cable channel's shows …

Discussion: Multichannel and The Verge

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 and The Brooks Review

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

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

New ASNE figures show percentage of minorities in newspaper newsrooms continues to decline — The number of minorities in the U.S. is growing, but in newspaper newsrooms it continues to creep downward. — New ASNE figures show that the percentage of minorities in newsrooms is now 12.32 percent.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Gannett Blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur and rjionline.org

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Zite, CNN Launch Publisher Program To Ease Cease-And-Desist Concerns — Last April Fools' Day, publishers from Time Inc. to the Washington Post Company sent fast-growing startup Zite an aggressive cease-and-desist letter. The publishers weren't joking, accusing Zite's app …

Discussion: Adweek, Poynter, VentureBeat, GigaOM and CNET

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Yahoo Cuts 2,000 Jobs in ‘Urgent’ Restructuring — Purple people eater? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) — The anticipated wave of layoffs at Yahoo has arrived, and it's as big as promised. — The Sunnywale, Calif.-based internet giant announced plans to eliminate 2,000 jobs, or about 14% of its workforce of 14,000.

Discussion: BBC, AllThingsD, Yahoo! Pressroom Home, Forbes, Mashable! and mnilive.com

Dan Zak / Washington Post:

Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal? — The gabby, gray-haired grand poobahs of journalism sprang from the back flaps of their book jackets onto a real-life panel Tuesday afternoon in the air-conditioned guts of the Marriott Wardman Park …

Discussion: ShortFormBlog

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.