Mediagazer: Wired sticks with liar, fabricator (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

3:00 PM ET, August 15, 2012

Top News:

“Wired” To Publish Jonah Lehrer — Jonah Lehrer, the New Yorker ideas writer fired for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in a nonfiction book, is set to re-emerge as a writer for Wired, where he spent several years and wrote the Frontal Cortex blog, a magazine spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap, New York Magazine, @mmoyr, The Huffington Post and @franklinfoer

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Wired sticks with liar, fabricator — They say great magazines aren't afraid of taking risks. By that standard, Wired is the world's greatest magazine. — Wired will continue to publish the work of journalism fraud Jonah Lehrer, news that broke today courtesy of BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith.

Discussion: Poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post corrects story that said Fareed Zakaria lifted quote — Tuesday, The Washington Post's Paul Farhi reported (and I repeated) Clyde V. Prestowitz's contention that Fareed Zakaria didn't cite a quote of his in Zakaria's book “The Post-American World.”

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online and American Journalism Review

David Frum / The Daily Beast:

A False Charge Against Fareed Zakaria — Is Fareed Zakaria a quote thief? This is the latest charge brought against the CNN host. From both hard evidence and direct personal experience, I can answer: No. Last week, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg charged that Fareed Zakaria had used work of Jeffrey's without attribution.

Discussion: Baltimore Sun, Swampland, @davidfolkenflik and The Atlantic Online

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Fareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, The Atlantic Online and American Thinker

Michael Barthel / Salon:
Cut, paste, plagiarize

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg and Poynter

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

NYT's new CEO: BBC's Thompson is custodian and curator, not digital creator — Mark Thompson's appointment as president and CEO of The New York Times Company is an eyebrow-raiser. But it may yet prove inspired. So who is Mark Thompson, and what will he bring to the Gray Lady?

Discussion: Guardian, BBC, Media Decoder and @gabrielsherman

Media Decoder:

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

Discussion: Capital New York

Richard Gingras / Poynter:

Google's Gingras: ‘The future of journalism can and will be better than its past’ — The following address was given by Richard Gingras, director of news and social products at Google, as the opening keynote of the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Should we trust Google when it comes to piracy and search?

Discussion: The Verge, The Week and Plagiarism Today

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Google acquires media companies without becoming one

Discussion: The Week, Forbes and Skift

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches anti-corruption review — Media group to review compliance with bribery laws in several of its publishing arms, including News International in London — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has launched a review of anti-corruption controls in several …

Discussion: The Wrap

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters: News Corp sets up global ethics team in wake of hacking scandal

Adrian Holovaty:

Onto the next chapter — In July 2007, I founded a company called EveryBlock. August 31 will be my last day at the company. — I've worked on this for five years, three of those after selling it to msnbc.com, and I've developed an uncontrollable itch to do something new.

Discussion: @dangillmor

Stephen Foley / The Independent:

Bad news for Reuters — It is 161 years since Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur whose first venture in the news business was sending carrier pigeons across Europe, installed himself in the London Stock Exchange, called himself the Reuter's Telegram Company and started selling …

Discussion: Reuters and Press Gazette

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Reuters faces fresh hacker attack

Andy Ostroy / The Huffington Post:

Soledad O'Brien's Amazing John Sununu Interview Should Be Taught in Journalism School — CNN's Soledad O'Brien did something which is extremely rare in television news these days: she actually did her job. And it was the best example of truly awesome journalism I've seen since Katie Couric …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Getty Images bought by private equity firm Carlyle Group — Co-founders Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein will remain investors as world's biggest picture agency acquired for £2.1bn — The world's biggest picture agency, Getty Images, has been acquired for $3.3bn (£2.1bn) by the private equity firm Carlyle Group.

Discussion: Business Wire, Press Gazette, TechCrunch and @joshhalliday

Reuters:

Assange faces arrest even if Ecuador grants asylum — (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has no way of leaving his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London without being arrested, even if Quito grants him asylum shortly, lawyers say. — The Australian has been in the embassy …

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

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

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Heads to Scandinavia — Here's the next stop on Reed Hastings's world tour: His video service plans to launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland by the end of the year. — The move is both expected and a sore spot with some Netflix investors.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, CNET, The Wrap, Guardian, fierceonlinevideo.com and TechCrunch

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Fox Networks' President & COO David Haslingden Stepping Down — David Haslingden, the president and COO of Fox Networks Group, will step down at the end of the calendar year, NewsCorp. said Wednesday. — Haslingden, who has served in the position since January 2011, is leaving to return …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Erik Wemple:

Politico puts ‘stop reading’ sign in article — Politico today tells us that there's an “unmistakable consensus” among Republican Beltway operatives that the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate “has only a modest chance of going right — and a huge chance of going horribly wrong.”