Mediagazer: Andy Coulson voicemails allegedly hacked (Josh Halliday/Guardian)

2:30 PM ET, May 23, 2012

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Andy Coulson voicemails allegedly hacked — Voicemails left by Andy Coulson for the aide to former Labour home secretary Charles Clarke are believed to be among those allegedly hacked while he was editor of the News of the World. Coulson is one of a number of journalists whose messages …

Discussion: New Statesman and Huffington Post UK

Kate Holton / Reuters:

Ex-UK editor Morgan accused again on hacking — May 23 (Reuters) - One of Britain's most respected journalists said on Wednesday that former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago, the latest twist in a scandal that has so far centred on Rupert Murdoch.

Discussion: @piersmorgan, The Independent and Guardian

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Lord Justice Leveson discusses role of bloggers — Lord Justice Leveson has queried whether bloggers would have to be brought in a revised system of press regulation, as he heard evidence from Andrew Marr about the growing power of political websites. The BBC journalist and politics show presenter …

Media Monkey / Guardian: Michel expected to hold nerve at Leveson

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Leveson inquiry: Hunt's permanent secretary to appear on Friday

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Huffington Post Gets Its First Publisher Amid Broader AOL Changes — Janet Balis Takes Post While AOL Chief Revenue Officer Ned Brody Also Gets New Role — In his company's most recent earnings call, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he wanted to restructure the company in a way that made …

Discussion: Capital New York, Adweek, The Wrap, AllThingsD, MediaPost, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Jay Greene / CNET:

How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies — Amazon Studios is crowdsourcing movie-making, creating test movies, that fans can review, with storyboard art in the place of video, like this image from a possible upcoming release called “Touching Blue.”

Discussion: Home Media Magazine

Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Amazon Prime acquires access to Paramount films

Discussion: Home Media Magazine and TechCrunch

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

If Video Sites Could Act Like Cable Companies — BOSTON — Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month. What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a “multichannel video programming distributor,” or M.V.P.D. for short.

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Several people reportedly stabbed at Topeka TV station — Staffers at WIBW in Topeka, Kan., subdued a “disgruntled man” this morning at the TV station. Morning news co-anchor Amanda Lanum tweeted events as they unfolded, as did other staffers. Their tweets say the man had a knife and stabbed …

Discussion: WIBW-TV

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

It's official: Chicago Reader sold to Sun-Times parent — A memo from group publisher Alison Draper and CFO Tammy Bailey to Creative Loafing employees confirms the sale: … The likely sale to Wrapports was first reported about two weeks ago. — The Reader and Washington City Paper …

Michael Wolff / Technology Review:

The Facebook Fallacy: For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web. — For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.

Discussion: Guardian, @ckrewson, @jayrosen_nyu, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and New York Magazine

Jim Romenesko:

McClatchy to begin ‘robust test’ of pay model — McClatchy vice president of news Anders Gyllenhaal tells employees that “after more than a year of experiments and analysis on pay models, McClatchy newspapers will begin a robust test of a pay plan that looks like the right balance for our websites.”

Discussion: Random Pixels and Loose Talk

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Katharine Zaleski leaves Washington Post — Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli announced to staff today that Katharine Zaleski, the Washington Post's executive director of digital news, will be leaving the news organization to join Planet Daily, where she'll be managing editor.

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Pentagon, CIA, White House opened up to Hollywood on bin Laden raid — Just weeks after Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency officials warned publicly of the dangers posed by leaks about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, top officials at both agencies and at the White House granted …