Mediagazer: Should freedom of the press shield WikiLeaks? (Michael McGough/Los Angeles Times)

10:40 PM ET, July 10, 2012

Top News:

Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels — Nothing gets journalists chattering like a debate about themselves, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that my post yesterday about the fixation many news outlets have with being first attracted some notice.

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Journalists Weigh in on ‘Reporting it First’

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Poynter, The Daily Dish and Neatorama

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy — It's not often moguls admit they made a mistake. — But lately some of the highest-paid executives at the world's largest media companies have talked a lot about the lessons they learned from a failed industrywide attempt to pass antipiracy legislation six months ago.

Discussion: Daily Dot and Forbes Real Time

Bloomberg:
Murdoch, Moguls Head To Sun Valley As Mobile Shapes Media

Discussion: Capital New York

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spin Magazine Is Sold to Buzzmedia, With Plans to Expand Online Reach — Spin Media, the company behind the alternative-music magazine Spin, has been sold to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, in a deal that could expand Spin's reach online but also calls into question its future as a print publication.

Discussion: MinOnline, BUZZMEDIA, Inc., Gothamist, Adweek, Media Decoder, FishbowlNY, AdAge, paidContent, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine, Forbes Real Time and eMedia Vitals

AdAge:

Blog Network Say Media Poaches Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher — Leaves Time Inc. Flagship Magazine for Blog Network — Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that includes sites such as XOJane …

Discussion: MinOnline, Adweek, TechCrunch, Home Page Feed, The Wrap and FishbowlNY

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Next Issue, magazines and paving media cow paths — Newspapers get most of the press when it comes to the disruption of the mainstream media industry, but magazines are also struggling to find a digital model that works. Next Issue Media believes it has the answer — a Netflix …

Discussion: The Loop, NetNewsCheck Latest and ZDNet

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad

Discussion: The Wrap, TechCrunch, AdAge, Engadget, FishbowlNY, VentureBeat, ZDNet, SocialTimes, PC Magazine, Journalism.co.uk and Techland

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NPR unpublishes intern's execution story after discovering parts were plagiarized — NPR has deleted a story from its website, an intern's first-person account of witnessing a public execution in Kabul, after learning that parts of it were plagiarized from someone else's story published in 2001.

Discussion: NPR and New York Magazine

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ intern fired for making up quotes denies allegation to beauty pageant

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Confidence in TV news at all-time low — Americans' confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup. — Twenty-one percent of the 1,004 adults polled said they had “a great deal” or “a lot” of confidence in television news media …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Gallup, Mediaite, @davidfolkenflik and Deadline.com

Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:

Social media grows in importance for finding the news — A new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism provides further evidence of how social media is shaping news consumption. — The survey of online news consumers across five countries - UK, US, Germany …

Discussion: The Next Web, ResourceShelf, Journalism.co.uk and paidContent

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Donald Newhouse rebuffs request to sell Times-Picayune — Donald Newhouse has rebuffed a strongly-worded letter from a group of heavy-hitters in New Orleans to sell The Times-Picayune rather than cut daily printing. The Times-Picayune Citizens Group wrote in a letter delivered Monday:

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune and JIMROMENESKO.COM

John Robinson / Media, disrupted: In New Orleans, profit trumps readers

Michael McGough / Los Angeles Times:

Should freedom of the press shield WikiLeaks? — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, it is safe to say, is not a fan of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. (J.. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press / July 9, 2012) — Glenn Greenwald, the ne plus ultra of critics of what he calls the …

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why The New York Times eschews formal social media guidelines — Phil Corbett, The New York Times associate managing editor for standards, tells me in an interview why the paper chooses to have only informal social media guidelines: … Earlier: John Paton's three “rules” for journalists using social media (Digital First) |

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

HuffPost Preps for Video Launch — As the Huffington Post prepares for an Aug. 13 launch of its full-day online video network, it is hoping to tap a fast-growing advertising market by offering marketers something akin to sports naming rights in addition to traditional online video ads.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Capital New York, Los Angeles Times and TVNewser

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 20 Million Customers — DirecTV customers may lose access to Viacom's 17 television channels, including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, at the end of the day on Tuesday because of a dispute between the two companies.

Discussion: DIRECTV Viacom Dispute, Forbes Real Time, Blog.Viacom, Mashable!, Tampa Bay Times, Radio & Television …, Adweek, paidContent, B&C and Deadline.com

YCharts / Forbes:

Warren Buffett Likes Newspaper Stocks — Should You? — That old coot in Omaha is buying newspapers, after swearing a few years back he wouldn't. For Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) holders, this is at worst a small diversion, given the amounts involved, and at best a reminder …

Patrick Gavin / Politico:

Scott Pelley on his first year behind the CBS News anchor desk — “Has it been a year? Holy smokes.” — That's Scott Pelley's response to recently passing his one-year anniversary as anchor of the “CBS Evening News.” — “It feels like I've been doing it for about six weeks,” he said.

Discussion: TVNewser

Brian Clark Howard / News Watch:

Dangerous Journalism: Where Is it Most Risky to Report? — An unexploded mortar shell sits in the desert in Israel near the border with Gaza and Egypt. Journalists covering conflict zones aren't the only ones at risk. Photo: Brian Clark Howard — By Drew Hendricks