Mediagazer: YouTube strikes movie rental deal with Paramount (Dawn C. Chmielewski/Company Town)

8:50 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 …

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:

QC defends scope of original phone-hacking prosecution — The leading counsel in the prosecution of Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman for intercepting voicemails in 2006 has defended the decision not to broaden the scope of the trial to include other potential victims or suspects.

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

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

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:

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 Decoder, Media News, The New York Observer, Fast Company, eMedia Vitals, ZDNet, Adweek, TechCrunch, Techland, Engadget, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, The Verge, Forbes, @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

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: Capital New York and 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, bookforum.com, Adweek and FishbowlNY

Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Women and the National Magazine Awards

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

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: AdAge, AllThingsD and CNET

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: The Daily Beast, msnbc.com, 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: Journalism.co.uk, 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

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