Mediagazer: Surprise! Copy Editors Are Destroying America's Newspapers (with PUNS) (Choire Sicha/The Awl)

11:55 AM ET, April 13, 2012

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Fires Back at the Feds, Amazon — Nearly two days after the Department of Justice filed antitrust charges against Apple and major book publishers, Apple is responding. Here's comment from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr: … Apple's response is similar to ones made by Penguin Group and MacMillan …

Discussion: PC Magazine, MacStories, TUAW, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Business Insider, App Advice, MacRumors, Softpedia News, eBookNewser, 9to5Mac, CNET and New York Times

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Antitrust Settlement Hits Barnes & Noble Shares — Barnes & Noble Inc. bore the brunt of Wednesday's antitrust settlement between the U.S. government and three major book publishers, losing 6.4% of its market value on Thursday alone and tumbling 17% this month.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Thad McIlroy, SlashGear and eBookNewser

Michael Bobelian / Forbes: The Irony Of The Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple And Five Publishers

Economist:
A too-cosy world? — Readers may not be the ultimate winners in an e-book antitrust case

Discussion: NPR and Technology Review

Melody Guyton Butts / Durham Herald-Sun:

Ailes lectures young journalists — CHAPEL HILL - Fox News chief Roger Ailes offered more than a few words of advice Thursday in a room filled mostly with young journalists, starting with a recommendation that elicited at least a few eye rolls: “I think you ought to change your major.”

Discussion: The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, Erik Wemple, Poynter, ABCNEWS, @romenesko, The Daily Tar Heel and News14.com

John Cook / Gawker:

Here's a Picture of Bill O'Reilly With a Topless Woman Along With the Fox News Legal Threat Meant to Quash It — Hey, look what just came in through the Gawker mailbag from the good people at Epstein Becker & Green P.C.: “Gawker should immediately stop publishing information and videos …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, Guardian, @producermatthew, Business Insider, Mediaite, Deadline.com, @joemuto and New York Magazine

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The ‘Fox News Mole’ Only Cost Gawker $5,000

Discussion: Associated Press, Yahoo! News, NY Daily News, Deadspin, Mashable!, Media & Entertainment, TVNewser, Forbes, WebProNews, Show Tracker, Company Town, Business Insider, Mediaite, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Vanity Fair

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
The Annotated Gawker Legal Threat: What Fox News Lawyers Fired Off at Their ‘Mole’ Problem

Discussion: Gawker and Erik Wemple

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Fox News Shouldn't Sue Over the ‘Fox Mole’ (Analysis)

Discussion: Gawker, Erik Wemple and The Huffington Post

Dan Watson / CJR:

Unpublishing Requests Are on the Rise — As more content shifts from print to web, journalists are seeing rising requests from sources to remove stories — I recently encountered a sticky conundrum as editor of a student-run digital news website at the University of Southern California.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest

Michael Holden / Reuters:

UK police judgment poor in News Corp hacking case: report — (Reuters) - Senior London police staff linked to the News Corp phone hacking scandal showed poor judgment, took bad decisions and got too close to journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, an independent watchdog said on Thursday.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

‘NightJack’ sues Times over email hacking — Detective seeks aggravated damages from paper for breach of confidence, misuse of private information and deceit — The Lancashire detective exposed by the Times as the author of the NightJack police blog has filed a legal claim against Times Newspapers at the high court.

Discussion: Press Gazette, AdAge, New York Times, New Statesman, Associated Press and Bloomberg

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

Surprise! Copy Editors Are Destroying America's Newspapers (with PUNS) — The National Conference of the American Copy Editors Society has announced its headline contest winners and it is now clear who is destroying the media. Among the many talented, hard-working winners …

Discussion: Poynter and ACES

Richard Gingras / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Google's Richard Gingras: 8 questions that will help define the future of journalism — Editor's note: At TechRaking 2012 today — a conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, sponsored by Google and the Center for Investigative Reporting — a group of journalism doers and thinkers …

Discussion: @charlesarthur and @chanders

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

CNN's unedited epithets raise questions about when to use unfiltered hate speech — When Tulsa police arrested two men Sunday in connection with a shooting spree that targeted African-Americans, much of the media drew attention to a racist Facebook post apparently written by one of the suspects.

Discussion: mediaite

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

YouTube opens Partner program to all: every creator in 20 countries can now monetize video — YouTube's long been a good friend to video producers who create popular content. They become Partners, gain exclusive privileges, and can choose to run advertising on their videos for a cut of the resulting profit.

Discussion: Mashable!, eMedia Vitals, WebProNews and YouTube Creator Blog

Pingdom:

WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs — WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it? — We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world.

Discussion: PandoDaily, The Next Web, WebProNews, Shareaholic Blog and CNET

Josh Stearns / Save the News:

Governments Around the World Grapple with Nonprofit Journalism — In Free Press' 2011 report on international models for public media, we noted how many of the changes we are witnessing in the American media landscape are also happening internationally. Public media systems around the world …

Thanks:@jcstearns

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Press bus takes wrong turn in North Korea — Earlier this week, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told me that the North Koreans, who had invited the international press to witness what turned out to be a failed rocket launch, we're shielding reporters from the real story …

Discussion: Associated Press

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Idea #5,704 to save newspapers: Newsprint made from recycled human waste — Israeli company Applied Clean Tech says it has developed a process that recycles “the cellulose in sludge” into paper. That cellulose can be found in used toilet paper, among, well, other substances found in wastewater.