Mediagazer: Former L.A. Times Editor Slams Paper For ‘Blaming Customers, Competition, Technology’ (Sharon Waxman/The Wrap)

1:00 PM ET, April 4, 2012

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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, AllThingsD, Guardian, AllThingsD and Company Town

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

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

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

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Nieman Journalism Lab

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

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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.

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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.

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

Discussion: mediabistro.com, TVNewser and New York Magazine

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

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

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.

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million in 2011

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: Journalism.co.uk, Broadcast and Cision

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, CNET and GigaOM

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Company Town:

YouTube strikes movie rental deal with Paramount — Google Inc.'s YouTube has struck a movie-rental deal with a fifth major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures, adding 500 new titles to its expanding online library. — The addition of Paramount's films brings YouTube's rental library …

Discussion: Online Video News, AdAge, Home Media Magazine, AllThingsD, Marketing Pilgrim and CNET

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

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: Betabeat, New York Times, AllThingsD and FishbowlNY

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

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: Gannett Blog and rjionline.org

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Former L.A. Times Editor Slams Paper For ‘Blaming Customers, Competition, Technology’ — How badly does former Los Angeles Times editor Matt Welch think the paper is doing? — Its “attitude is killing the host,” he tweeted last weekend. — I called him on Tuesday to ask him what he meant.

Discussion: LA Observed

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.

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: MPA, Capital New York and @lilianasegura