Mediagazer: NimbleTV Aims to Stream TV on Devices (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

3:45 PM ET, April 23, 2012

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TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air — After broadcasting an audio clip on the “Today” show about George Zimmerman last month that hit the trifecta of being misleading, incendiary and dead-bang wrong, NBC News management took serious action: it fired the producer in charge and issued …

Discussion: TVNewser, Inside Cable News, @brianstelter, Erik Wemple, Pat's Papers and Poynter

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

The Tabloid Turncoat — Colin Myler, the Daily News' new editor, knows his enemies at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Maybe too well. — Five years ago, Colin Myler, now the editor of the Daily News, received a message from Rupert Murdoch's people. At the time, Myler, a square-faced Brit, was a top editor at Murdoch's Post.

Discussion: Capital New York and The New York Observer

Guardian:

Myler's role at NY Daily News under scrutiny — Allegations made that Myler, when News of the World editor, told reporters to dig for dirt on MPs investigating phone hacking — Colin Myler's editorship of the New York Daily News, one of the most prominent newspapers in America …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Capital New York

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson — Sky News editor John Ryley has apologised to the Leveson Inquiry after making a submission which stated there had been no interception of communications by its journalists. — Head of Sky News John Ryley said it was “highly unlikely” …

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Ben Child / Guardian:
Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News

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Reuters:
Ofcom investigating Sky over email hacking

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Leveson becomes Murdoch family affair

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New Romney Spokesman Scrubs History Of Attacking Media — NEW YORK — Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration official who joined the Romney campaign Thursday as national security and foreign policy spokesman, appears to have deleted more than 800 of his past tweets following scrutiny …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NimbleTV Aims to Stream TV on Devices — In a move that could hasten the slow pace of so-called TV Everywhere, a technology start-up is introducing a way to move a whole subscription's worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscription company's permission.

Discussion: NYConvergence.com, SocialTimes, Light Reading, PC Magazine, GigaOM and Betabeat

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune replaces TribLocal with Journatic suburban content — Tribune Co. announced Monday it has made an investment in Chicago-based media content provider Journatic, which will take over production of TribLocal, the Chicago Tribune's hyper-local news report. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, MediaPost and @ckrewson

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Columbia Journalism Review’ will leave Columbia campus, take Midtown offices — The Columbia Journalism Review is leaving Morningside Heights. — The bimonthly journal is in the “final stages” of negotiating office space in a building “right off Times Square,” said Nicholas Lemann …

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Google closes down online news payment system One Pass — Just over a year after launching the online payment service for news publishers Google has announced its closure — Google launched One Pass a day after Apple announced its subscription service for content-based apps

Discussion: MediaPost, blogs.ft.com and Big News Network.com

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

Experts Say Government Had Little Choice in E-Books Case — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department has come under criticism since filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and five publishers, accusing them of colluding to fix e-book prices. — But many experts say that under antitrust law …

Discussion: @carr2n, Free Press and NetNewsCheck Latest

Channel 4:

Channel 4 News team deported from Bahrain — Jonathan Miller, foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, and his team have been deported from Bahrain following their release from detention. — The correspondent, cameraman, Joe Sheffer, and producer Dave Fuller …

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, Channel 4, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, The Huffington Post, Press Gazette, Digital Spy, @williamjhague, @amyllawson, @amyllawson, The Star Online, Al Jazeera Blogs, @jeffjarvis and Telegraph

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Meltwater Response To Associated Press Lawsuit: AP Is Misusing Copyright Law — We were somewhat surprised by the Associated Press' decision to sue news search engine Meltwater, because we couldn't see how the AP — even with its absurdist interpretation of copyright law — had any case.

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