Mediagazer: James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry

1:50 PM ET, April 24, 2012

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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:

Jeremy Hunt and the Murdochs: how minister oiled wheels of BSkyB bid — A haul of email, text and phone call records reveals the extent of the culture secretary's involvement in News Corp's bid for BSkyB — Sometimes half a dozen confidential texts and emails a day would fly back and forth between …

Discussion: 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

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, @dansabbagh, @jackofkent, @skynewsbreak, @arusbridger, @jackofkent, Journalism.co.uk and Business Insider

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: Guardian, The Independent 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, Street Fight and JIMROMENESKO.COM

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, TVNewser 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, Journalism.org and Mother Jones

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Post editors, critics weigh in on ombud column about Flock plagiarism — In a new column about the recent resignation of Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock, Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton offers the provocative assessment that, “The Post failed her as much as she failed The Post.”

Megan Carpentier / The Raw Story:
Unsolicited advice to young writers: The internet remembers

Discussion: inVocus Media Blog

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

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

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