Mediagazer: Reuters Hires Caveman to Write Headlines (Chris O'Shea/FishbowlNY)

9:45 AM ET, July 5, 2012

Top News:

WikiLeaks starts publishing 2.4m #SyriaFiles and outlines its ‘search interface’ — WikiLeaks announces the start of its publication of ‘more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies’ from 680 domains — WikiLeaks has today started publishing …

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, ZDNet, CNET, ABC News, WebProNews and The Next Web

AAP:

Ecuador finds sex claims against Assange ‘hilarious’ as WikiLeaks announces Syrian leak — WIKILEAKS says it is publishing two million emails from Syrian politicians as Ecuador declares charges against founder Julian Assange to be ‘hilarious’. — WikiLeaks says the emails date back to 2006 …

Marc Chacksfield / TechRadar:

Wikileaks unveils The Syria Files - its biggest data leak yet — Eight times bigger than Cablegate — Another massive data dump — Wikileaks has announced that it has released its biggest load of files yet, all pertaining to the Syrian government. — In a press conference today …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: 26-year-old arrested is News International employee — Publisher's chief executive tells staff that suspect arrested on Thursday morning is not a journalist — The 26-year-old man arrested on Thursday morning in connection with Scotland Yard's phone-hacking inquiry is a News International employee.

Discussion: Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: former Mirror journalist among three arrested

Discussion: Press Gazette, @rupertmurdochpr, Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian

Mark Sweney / Guardian: Murdoch's former adviser gets BSkyB job

London Evening Standard:
Private eye Glenn Mulcaire must name names at News of the World after Supreme Court ruling

Discussion: Guardian

Jim Romenesko:

Jake Barnes surfaces again — From MARK POTTS: There's a very weird link between the Journatic fake byline scandal and one of the most notorious newspaper fakery scandals: The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the fake byline Jeremy Schnitker used to submit 32 articles was Jake Barnes.

Jim Romenesko:
Three more newspapers report fake Journatic bylines

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Chicago Tribune and GigaOM

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Chicago Sun-Times ends Journatic relationship as dozens of fake bylines discovered at more papers

Discussion: B2B Memes, eMedia Vitals, Media News and mediabistro.com

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Visual.ly: New infographics tool to launch ‘later this year’ — Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly, a platform for creating, exploring and sharing infographics, discusses plans to roll out additional data visualisation creation options later this year — Copyright: Visual.ly infographic on ‘big data’

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Reuters Hires Caveman to Write Headlines — What can we say? The new hire at Reuters — a caveman from the Paleolithic Era — was a risky move, but he is doing fantastic work so far. — A tipster told us he still spends a lot of time yelling at the water fountain and he tried to eat a desk last week …

Discussion: Reuters, TVNewser and AppNewser

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

HBO Now Targeting Fox News' Roger Ailes With TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals — EXCLUSIVE: HBO appears obsessed by GOP Conservatives. There have been movies about the 2000 Bush vs Gore election standoff and Sarah Palin and most recently a TV series featuring George W Bush's severed head.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:

In E-Book War, the Independent Publishers Strike Back — In the fight between Apple, Amazon, the government, and publishers to set prices for electronic books, independents were overlooked. Now, they're banding together and voicing complaints. — To briefly recap: In April …

Discussion: TeleRead

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Writer and Climber, 45, Is Killed Near Yosemite — Michael J. Ybarra, a freelance writer and extreme-sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was killed in a fall during a weekend mountain-climbing trip in the Sierra Nevada, according to his sister, Suzanne Ybarra.

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM and LA Observed

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

Caroline Thomson, BBC's chief operating officer, expected to leave — Caroline Thomson, who narrowly missed the chance to become the BBC's first-ever female director general, is expected to leave the corporation following the announcement that rival George Entwistle is to succeed Mark Thompson.

John Plunkett / Guardian:
Entwistle named as BBC director general

Discussion: BBC, BBC and Media Week

Guardian:
George Entwistle's memo to BBC staff

Discussion: Press Gazette

Jim Romenesko:

NJ.com wants Politico's Ginger Gibson back to cover Chris Christie — Political reporter Ginger Gibson left the Star-Ledger last November and joined Politico, where she's now covering the Romney campaign. But the Newark newspaper wants her back. NJ.com chief content officer Lamar Graham — remember his “I'm hiring!”

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical — When is a book not a book? When it comes to European tax law. Continental lawmakers may punish France and Luxembourg for reducing VAT on e-books to match their physical equivalents. — In many countries …

Discussion: EU Press Room

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix just became cable's biggest TV network — Netflix subscribers watched more than one billion hours of video in June, according to the company's CEO Reed Hastings. That means that U.S. subscribers watched around 80 minutes of Netflix per day last month, which makes the service …