Mediagazer: New Editor for Chicago Sun-Times (Tanzina Vega/Media Decoder)

6:50 PM ET, April 23, 2012

Top News:

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: New York Magazine, FishbowlNY and Capital New York

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Posts An In-Line Quarter, But Investors Balk — First look at Netflix numbers: A loss of $0.08 a share on revenue of $870 million. Wall Street was expecting revenues of $855 million and a loss of $0.27 a share. The crucial number: 23.41 million domestic streaming subscribers.

Discussion: Multichannel, Forbes, Media Decoder, Media Money …, paidContent, Home Media Magazine, Company Town, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web and Business Insider

Ben Child / Guardian:

Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News — Documentary film-maker has ‘gut feeling’ investigations will reveal phone hacking at Murdoch subsidiary Fox News — The film-maker Michael Moore has suggested that the phone-hacking scandal at News International …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, NME News and 24 Frames

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson

Discussion: Press Gazette

Reuters:
Ofcom investigating Sky over email hacking

Discussion: paidContent, @hackinginquiry, @robertandrews, @rosschawkins, @jackofkent and @rosschawkins

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: Light Reading, PC Magazine, GigaOM, SocialTimes, NYConvergence.com 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: MediaPost, PR Newswire, The Huffington Post, @ckrewson, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Radio & Television …

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 …

Discussion: Columbia University …

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: Folio, JIMROMENESKO.COM, blogs.ft.com, MediaPost and Big News Network.com

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) joins Wall Street Journal as social media editor — Neal Mann is joining Wall Street Journal's social engagement team, announced Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Journal's digital network. Mann is the latest high-profile social media hire for the Journal …

Discussion: Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Journalism.co.uk, @rajunarisetti and Nieman Journalism Lab

Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:

New Editor for Chicago Sun-Times — The Chicago Sun-Times and its sister print and digital media properties have a new editor. Wrapports, the investment company that owns the Sun-Times Media group, announced on Monday it had appointed Jim Kirk to the newly created role of editor in chief and senior vice president.

Justin D. Martin / CJR:

Loneliness at the Foreign ‘Bureau’ — News organizations exaggerate the size of their overseas newsrooms — The Washington Post has 16 foreign “bureaus,” and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the newspaper's website. The four remaining bureaus all consist of two journalists.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Mitt Romney Alleges Media Bias, As Study Finds He Receives More Positive Coverage Than Obama — NEW YORK — During the past several months of the Republican primary campaign, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney received a mix of positive and negative coverage, while President Barack Obama got …

Discussion: Journalism.org, Mediaite and Mother Jones

David Carr / New York Times:

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, Erik Wemple, Pat's Papers, Poynter and @brianstelter