Mediagazer: WIRED and Jonah Lehrer, for the record... (Jacob Young/Wired)

9:25 AM ET, August 16, 2012

Top News:

Lizzy Davies / Guardian:

Julian Assange Ecuador embassy row - live coverage — 14:04 BST Britain will carry out its “binding obligation” to extradite Assange to Sweden in spite of Ecuador's decision, a spokesperson for the FCO has said. We are disappointed by the statement from Ecuador's Foreign Minister that Ecuador …

Discussion: New York Times, @antderosa, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @skynewsbreak, @wyliecatherine, @tomjharper and The Age

@skynewsbreak:

Foreign Office says will “carry out binding obligation to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden”

BBC:

Assange granted asylum by Ecuador — Scuffles have broken out outside the Ecuadorean embassy — Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. — It said there were fears Mr Assange's human rights may be violated.

Discussion: ZDNet and CNET

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone hacking: Andy Coulson and others to face crown court in September — Six former News of the World Journalists, plus private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, told of next court date by magistrate — Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former director of communications …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches anti-corruption review

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Guardian: Rupert Murdoch's memo to News Corp staff - full text

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

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious — [With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] — I. — Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday.

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Choire Sicha / The Awl:
The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising

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Jacob Young / Wired:

WIRED and Jonah Lehrer, for the record... We want to ensure that there is no confusion regarding reports today about writer Jonah Lehrer and WIRED. Jonah has not been “hired” by WIRED; he's been a contributing editor at the magazine and the website for years.

Discussion: Poynter

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

Discussion: Poynter, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple TV could double as cable box, report says — Apple wants to make its streaming set top box double as a cable box, and is in talks with operators, according to a new report. — Apple's set top box could be destined to stream live TV channels, according to a new report.

Discussion: Multichannel News, TechCrunch, The Next Web and MediaPost

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: A New Language of Journalism Speaks to the Rebirth of a Profession — As chief product officer, I spend a lot of time talking with people outside FORBES about our unique model for journalism. Here's one question I get asked all the time: “What exactly are you guys up to?”

Discussion: Talking To Strangers

Simon Rogers / Guardian:

London 2012 and data journalism: what did we learn at the Olympics? — It was two weeks of elite sport, emotion - and data. So how did we deal with it and what did we learn? These are the 12 lessons we learned from London 2012 — • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian

Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:

What to Do with Political Lies — Fact-checkers are no longer enough: If lies are going to be repeated, the truth needs to be, too. — My former Washington Post colleague Alec MacGillis has a thought-provoking piece in The New Republic today about “The Welfare Card and the Post-Truth Campaign …

Discussion: Guardian, The Caucus, The New Republic and New York Magazine

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: iMediaEthics, mnilive.com, Mother Jones, Swampland, Politico, The Daily Beast and CJR

Erik Wemple:

No more TBD.com — This may be one of the last times that TBD.com does what it's most famous for. Getting media attention, that is. — When I attempted to log onto the site this afternoon, nothing approaching the TBD.com template popped up. Instead, I was redirected to WJLA.com …

Discussion: @jeffjarvis

Mohammed Ademo / CJR:

Media restrictions tighten in Ethiopia — One of the last remaining independent newspapers was recently shuttered by the government — Government charges against of one of Ethiopia's last remaining independent newspaper editors on Friday and a recent forced shutdown of that paper's presses capped …