Mediagazer: A debate over the presidential debate moderators (Dylan Byers/Politico)

12:20 AM ET, August 15, 2012

Top News:

Times Co. Names Mark Thompson Chief Executive — The New York Times Company has named Mark Thompson, the departing director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, as its new president and chief executive. — Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of the Times Company and the newspaper's publisher …

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics: BBC's Mark Thompson Jumps Out of the Frying Pan and into the New York Times Cauldron

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

More questions raised about Fareed Zakaria's work — Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria, who acknowledged plagiarizing parts of a magazine article last week, appears to have also published without attribution a passage from a 2005 book. — Zakaria's 2008 book, “The Post-American World …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, The Daily Beast, Plagiarism Today, Mother Jones, American Journalism Review, The Panic Virus and The Huffington Post

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing — In my previous post, I discussed an incident from 2009 (an incident I had completely forgotten about until it was resurrected by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among others) in which Fareed Zakaria …

Discussion: Poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Fareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’ — Fareed Zakaria's Washington Post column has been suspended for a month. He tells Paul Farhi, “People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta” now that Time and CNN have suspended him for plagiarism.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, American Thinker, Washington Post and Poynter

Michael Barthel / Salon:

Cut, paste, plagiarize — Major media organizations had faith in Fareed Zakaria. CNN gave him 60 minutes each week — several million dollars' worth of time — to say whatever the hell he wanted, more or less. Time gave him a column, too, the one in which (as reported …

Discussion: @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg and @penenberg

David Frum / The Daily Beast:

A False Charge Against Fareed Zakaria — Fareed Zakaria, on the phone in US magazine Newsweek offices in New York, October 14, 2009. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) — Is Fareed Zakaria a quote thief? This is the latest charge brought against the CNN host.

Irene Caselli / Guardian:

Ecuador ‘to grant’ Julian Assange asylum — Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has agreed to give the WikiLeaks founder asylum, according to an official in Quito — Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has agreed to grant Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Telegraph, CNET, Wired, The Atlantic Wire, Foreign Policy, WebProNews, Gawker, Mashable! and Digital Spy

Estelle Shirbon / Reuters: Assange seeks London-Quito ticket but Sweden looms

RT:
Correa: Assange asylum rumors false, no decision yet

Discussion: @mashirafael, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and @wikileaks

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:

Romney Campaign Bars Press From Ryan, Adelson Event — LAKEWOOD, Colorado — Presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's first major fundraiser will be closed to the press, in apparent violation of the Romney-Ryan campaign's oft-strained agreement with the reporters who cover the campaign.

Discussion: Gawker, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Daily Kos and Politico

Erik Wemple:
Politico puts ‘stop reading’ sign in article

Discussion: Guardian, Politico and The Hill

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Is Paul Ryan a Ticking Time Bomb as Mitt Romney's Running Mate?

Discussion: Mediaite, The Atlantic Online, The Daily Beast, Forbes, New York Times, TVNewser, Change of Subject, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, NewsBusters.org blogs, Erik Wemple, Erik Wemple and Paul Krugman

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NY photojournalist gets cameras back after arrest, but not press credentials — Robert Stolarik's cameras were confiscated when he was arrested on Aug. 4 while photographing police on a public street. He has them back now, but he still hasn't received his press credentials.

Discussion: Hit & Run, NPPA Advocacy Committee and The Huffington Post

James Estrin / Lens:
Criminalizing Photography — Mickey H. Osterreicher …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Hit & Run and The FJP

Eric Goldman / Ars Technica:

Heavy dose of hyperlinks gets defamation lawsuit against Gizmodo tossed — Judge: links allow readers to decide ultimate truth for themselves. — Eric Goldman is an associate professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and directs that school's High Tech Law Institute.

Discussion: @nicknotned, The Atlantic Online and Techdirt

Anil Dash:

Stop Publishing Web Pages — Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

After a deal falls apart, Homicide Watch D.C. is going on hiatus — The Internet famously enabled anyone to become a publisher. A tiny outfit of one or two people can, when the stars align, have the same claim on your attention as a major media company with thousands of employees.

Discussion: Kickstarter and DCist

Dylan Byers / Politico:

A debate over the presidential debate moderators — They're old, they're white, and they rarely if ever use Twitter. They are also, arguably, the best people for the job. — Ladies and gentlemen, meet the moderators of the 2012 presidential debates. — On Monday, the Commission …

Discussion: TVNewser and The Huffington Post

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Siri's sister company Trapit debuts its redesigned iPad app and other newsreaders are in trouble — We've told you about Trapit before, the newsreader app that uses brilliant algorithms to help you “trap” news about any topic that interests you. Today, the company has unleashed an updated version …

Discussion: App Advice, Thanks:@jordan_tara

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Google acquires media companies without becoming one — Google is “unarguably a media company” following its acquisition of travel-guide publisher Frommer's, Jeff Bercovici writes. “The travel-guide publisher is indisputably a content business, not a platform or a network or anything else more quintessentially Google-y.”

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Skift and Forbes

Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:

Leading Variety bidder is owner of National Enquirer — An owner of the National Enquirer's parent company is now the leading bidder for Hollywood trade paper Variety. (Variety website / August 13, 2012) — Avenue Capital, a New York hedge fund whose holdings include the parent company …