Mediagazer: Washington Post's Amanda Zamora joins ProPublica (Jim Romenesko)

11:15 AM ET, July 5, 2012

Top News:

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

AP Partners with WikiLeaks for ‘Syria Files’ — WikiLeaks is at it again. Today the site announced a partnership with multiple news outlets (the Associated Press in the United States) to present stories based on a trove of over two million emails from Syrian political officials, ministries and more.

Discussion: Guardian

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

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, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WebProNews, CNET, ABC News 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

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: Mediaite, TVNewser, TVWeek.com, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

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

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 and Press Gazette

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

Discussion: London Evening Standard

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

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

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 and AppNewser

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:

Washington Post's Amanda Zamora joins ProPublica — Amanda Zamora leaves the Washington Post after seven years to become senior engagement editor at ProPublica. “At ProPublica she will be in charge of expanding social media, crowd-sourcing and distributed reporting efforts,” says the Post memo announcing her departure.

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, @lheron and LA Observed

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