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

3:00 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

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

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: @davidfolkenflik

Michael Barthel / Salon:
Cut, paste, plagiarize

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

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing

Discussion: Poynter

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
More questions raised about Fareed Zakaria's work

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

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

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

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

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

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: Guardian, Politico, The Hill and CNN

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

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

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

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

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Should we trust Google when it comes to piracy and search? — As we reported earlier, Google recently announced that it will start filtering its search results based in part on the number of copyright-takedown requests that have been filed against a site: according to a blog post from the search giant …

Discussion: Plagiarism Today, The Week and ReadWriteWeb

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

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

Discussion: Media Decoder, Hit & Run and The FJP

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.

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

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

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Boxfish Launches An iPad App To Help You Find What's Hot On TV — There's no shortage of video discovery apps out there. There are some, like Showyou, which aim to usual social signals to tell you what videos are worth watching online; and there are others, like Fanhattan …

Discussion: The Next Web and GigaOM

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

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 …