Mediagazer: The death of a newspaper — It's an old story: Journalists tend … (David Kenner/FP Passport)

3:25 PM ET, April 24, 2012

Top News:

James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry - live coverage — • Murdoch had info on PM and Hunt discussing setting up phone-hacking inquiry — • Hunt asked News Corp to ‘work with his team’ on statement — • Murdoch: ‘illegal’ info on Hunt's statement was a joke

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Hunt accused of giving News Corp special access over BSkyB bid — Murdoch lobbyist's emails appear to show back channel to culture secretary during takeover bid — The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has been accused of acting as a “cheerleader” and operating a secret …

Discussion: Telegraph, @skynewsbreak, @jackofkent, @arusbridger, @dansabbagh, @jackofkent, Journalism.co.uk, Business Insider and Press Gazette

Guardian:

How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid — A haul of email, text and phone call records appear to show how minister aided News Corp takeover bid — Sometimes half a dozen confidential texts and emails a day would fly back and forth between the culture secretary's Cockspur Street office …

Discussion: Guardian, @nytjim, @skynewsbreak, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Lisa O'Carroll / @lisaocarroll: The “alliance” who opposed BSkyB bid had “one wooden meeting with Hunt” sources say. Contrasts with the almost daily updates to Murdoch

Huffington Post UK: Leveson Inquiry: David Cameron Met James Murdoch 12 Times While In Opposition, Did Discuss BSkyB

Press Gazette:

Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly backed BSkyB bid’ — Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt secretly backed News Corporation's bid to take over BSkyB and leaked inside information to the media giant, the Leveson Inquiry heard today. — Labour has now called on Hunt to resign - with deputy Labour leader …

Discussion: The Independent, Reuters, Guardian and Guardian

Robert Peston / BBC:
How News Corp wooed government over BskyB bid

Discussion: @jackofkent

Emily Allen / Daily Mail: So who is not telling the whole truth? …

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Tribune Company does deal with Journatic — The Tribune Company announced Monday it's turning over TribLocal to Journatic—which the Tribune describes as a “Chicago-based media content provider” that “aggregates data.” Not just Chicago-based, it's Tribune Tower-based …

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Street Fight and Chicago Business

Jim Romenesko:
Here's more information about Journatic

Discussion: inVocus Media Blog, PR Newswire, The Huffington Post and Chicago Tribune

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

FT passes 2m users for HTML5 web app — Mobile now driving 12% of subscriptions to the newspaper's digital offering — The Financial Times has attracted more than 2m users to its HTML5 web-app, 10 months after its launch. — The app was launched in June 2011 in response to Apple's introduction …

Discussion: The Next Web and Media Week

Sahil Kapur / TPM:

Fox News' Steve Doocy Corrects Fabricated Obama Quote — Fox News' Steve Doocy Corrects Fabricated Obama Quote — Facing strong criticism, Fox News host Steve Doocy on Tuesday morning corrected a quote by President Obama that he partially fabricated last week, conceding on air that he “did some paraphrasing.”

Discussion: Media Decoder, Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post, New York Post and Talking Points Memo

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Alleges Media Bias, As Study Finds He Receives More Positive Coverage Than Obama

Discussion: Slate, Mediaite and Mother Jones

David Kenner / FP Passport:

The death of a newspaper — It's an old story: Journalists tend to see their occupation as a calling, and investors see newspapers as a business. At Egypt's only independent English-language print daily, the balance sheets won out. — Daily News Egypt announced yesterday that it was closing after over seven years in business.

Mike Flynn / Breitbart.com:

NPR Fails To Disclose Reporter's Ties To Activist Group — This weekend, NPR aimed its taxpayer-subsidized guns at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a relatively unknown membership association of state legislators. ALEC, a non-profit 501 (c)3 founded in the 1970s …

Discussion: Mediaite and Nypress.com

Megan Carpentier / The Raw Story:

Unsolicited advice to young writers: The internet remembers — It's hard not to read a story about a young, aspiring journalist like Elizabeth Flock and not feel at least a little sorry for her. Flock, who resigned from the Washington Post last week after receiving two strong editor's notes …

Discussion: The New York Observer and inVocus Media Blog

Craig Silverman / Poynter: Post editors, critics weigh in on ombud column about Flock plagiarism

Felix Salmon:

Could the NYT make money from its scoops? — Perhaps the most surprising thing about the NYT's Walmart exposé this weekend is that it was such a surprise to the market. Note this, for instance: … The filing in question was Walmart's quarterly report, which was filed with the SEC on December 8.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Forbes, The Atlantic Online, New York Times and The Consumerist

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out — Calls for big-six publishers to drop DRM have increased in recent weeks, coinciding with the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit. Many observers fear that the lawsuit will actually reduce competition in the e-book marketplace …

Discussion: Tor.com Frontpage Partial, paidContent, TeleRead and Melville House Books

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Read Offline: News.me Automatically Downloads Your News Whenever You Leave Home — News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times' R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news offline — whenever they leave the house.

Discussion: The Next Web, TeleRead and Betabeat

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Why it matters who won the first ‘online’ Pulitzer — When The Huffington Post's David Wood won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on wounded veterans, Michael Calderone called it a “milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee's recognition of online-only news organizations.”

Thanks:@myersnews