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

1:15 PM 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 …

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: BBC and @gabrielsherman

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

Discussion: Capital New York, Media Decoder and Guardian

BuzzFeed:

“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, @franklinfoer and The Huffington Post

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

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: Plagiarism Today and The Week

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

Discussion: Skift, Los Angeles Times and Forbes

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

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

News Corp sets up global ethics team in wake of hacking scandal — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has set up a global compliance and ethics team led by its top in-house lawyer as it continues to deal with the long-term fallout of a phone-hacking scandal that rocked the company just over a year ago.

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches anti-corruption 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: Poynter, Baltimore Sun, Swampland, @davidfolkenflik, Mother Jones and The Atlantic Online

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

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

Michael Barthel / Salon:
Cut, paste, plagiarize

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, Poynter and American Journalism Review

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 and @wikileaks

Irene Caselli / Guardian:
Ecuador ‘to grant’ Julian Assange asylum

Discussion: New York Times, openDemocracy, FP Passport, Reuters, Bloomberg, Digital Spy, WebProNews, Wired, Mashable!, Telegraph, The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Reuters and CNET

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.”

Discussion: Forbes, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, The Week, Change of Subject, NewsBusters.org blogs and Politico

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Bars Press From Ryan, Adelson Event

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

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 …

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: VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, The Wrap, fierceonlinevideo.com, CNET, Guardian and TechCrunch

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, TechCrunch and @joshhalliday