Mediagazer: A Newspaper Buying Spree (John Morton/American Journalism Review)

9:20 AM ET, April 10, 2012

Top News:

Guardian moves into journalism training business — Guardian News and Media is set to diversify into journalism training. — The newspaper group, which made losses before tax of £33m last year, is understood to be set to launch a course offering training in digital journalism at a cost …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Guy Fawkes' blog

Guido Fawkes:

Motorman: Britain's Biggest Establishment Cover-Up Thousands of Crimes Committed By Over 300 Journalists Protected from Exposure by a Judge and Newspaper Editors — If a police-led investigation uncovered thousands of crimes committed by over 300 suspected serial criminals …

Discussion: Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Operation Motorman: Guido Fawkes under fire over publication of files — The Information Commissioner's Office has said it “strongly condemns” the partial publication by the Guido Fawkes blog of its Operation Motorman files on alleged breaches of the Data Protection Act by journalists.

Discussion: @GuidoFawkes, Hacking inquiry and Journalism.co.uk

Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:

Watergate and the Internet: A Cautionary Tale From Bob Woodward — Last Tuesday at the American Society of News Editors annual conference, on a panel called “Watergate 4.: How Would the Story Unfold in the Digital Age?” veteran investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein …

Discussion: techpresident.com/node/feed

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Limbaugh to Leave AM Station in Philadelphia — “The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country. — In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Media Matters for America, ThinkProgress and Chickaboomer

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

63 Minutes With Alan Rusbridger — The Guardian is a very different kind of beast from other papers," Alan Rusbridger tells me, strolling through the British newspaper's new American office, a bright-white Soho loft with rows of bright-white tabletops—almost a fantasy of European cool. "

Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:

Amazon's $1 million secret — By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics? — The Brooklyn Book Festival's website debuts a new feature this year called OnePage. Every week from March through September …

Discussion: TeleRead and bookforum.com

John Morton / American Journalism Review:

A Newspaper Buying Spree — Despite their declining value and much-publicized woes, papers are attracting interest. Thurs., April 5, 2012. — John Morton (mortoninc@msn.com), a former newspaper reporter, is president of a consulting firm that analyzes newspapers and other media properties.

Discussion: New York Times

Matt Stempeck / MIT Center for Civic Media:

Jay Rosen's Three-Layer Journalism Cake — @jayrosen_nyu and @ethanz discussed the past, present, and future of journalism at this evening's MIT Communications Forum. He actually used the word “tripartite,” but I thought cake would be better for SEO. This is as close to a faithful transcript as my fingers would allow.

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:

Cameron, Blair and Brown to appear at Leveson inquiry, reports say — Former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair will give evidence before David Cameron, whose appearance is reportedly scheduled for mid-June — David Cameron and former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair …

Discussion: Spectator

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Accused of plagiarism, Fast Company blogger says he meant to steal from someone else — A cop walks around a corner and catches a man smoking a joint. — “Really sorry, officer,” he says, stubbing it out, “but I swear I was just smoking it for a friend.” — No, that doesn't make a lot of sense, and it doesn't mitigate the crime.

Discussion: Gawker

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it's a button — As he has shown with books like “Here Comes Everybody” and his ideas about how the “cognitive surplus” has created a crowdsourcing explosion, Clay Shirky has a way of putting his finger on trends in media …