Mediagazer: The last Money intern at The Times-Picayune turns out the lights (DiAngelea Millar/BusinessJournalism …)

6:45 AM ET, August 15, 2012

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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

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 — 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

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

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

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

Discussion: Poynter

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.

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

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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, NewsBusters.org blogs and CNN

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

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

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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

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.

DiAngelea Millar / BusinessJournalism.org …:

The last Money intern at The Times-Picayune turns out the lights — I'm the last Money intern the Times-Picayune will ever have. As of Sept. 30, 2012, the Money section will cease to exist as Advance Publications cuts the printing of one of America's finest newspapers to three days a week.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

BuzzFeed, The ‘New Kids’ In 2012, Looking For More Buzz At Conventions — NEW YORK — Since leaving Politico in late 2011, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has hired several scoop-hungry reporters, launched a D.C. bureau, and helped inject the viral meme site's original political reporting straight …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Magazines Don't Have a Digital Problem, They Have a Bundling Problem — New media and publishing dynamics have changed the economics for magazines to the extent that it is simply not possible to continue with existing models. Much of the issue is that magazine publishers are misidentifying their problems …

Discussion: @om, @jayrosen_nyu, New York Times, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Garcia Media and eMedia Vitals

James Estrin / Lens:

Criminalizing Photography — Mickey H. Osterreicher is the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association and edits the organization's Advocacy Committee blog. He spoke with James Estrin. Their conversation has been edited. Q. It seems like photographing in public is becoming a crime.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Hit & Run and The FJP

Steve Myers / Poynter:
NY photojournalist gets cameras back after arrest, but not press credentials

Discussion: NPPA Advocacy Committee, Hit & Run 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

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 …