Mediagazer: ABC News Stumbles in Report on Tony Scott's Suicide (Brooks Barnes/Media Decoder)

10:15 AM ET, August 21, 2012

Top News:

Journalist Fareed Zakaria resigns from Yale Corporation (document) — NEW HAVEN — The plagiarism scandal connected to a nationally known journalist has hit home. Fareed Zakaria, an editor-at-large at Time magazine and CNN host, on Monday resigned from the Yale Corporation.

Discussion: New York Times

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Plagiarism, defamation and the power of hyperlinks — What do Fareed Zakaria, Jonah Lehrer and Gawker Media have in common? In different ways, the incidents that have thrust all three into the news recently help to show the power of the simple hyperlink, which Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed along …

Discussion: Gatekeeper, New York Magazine, Media Decoder and Poynter, Thanks:@mikeyavo

Brian Stelter / The Caucus:

Akin's No-Show on ‘Piers Morgan’ is Boon for Program — When Representative Todd Akin abruptly cancelled an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday night, Mr. Morgan trotted out an empty chair instead. — The scene, irresistible to political insiders, played out in prime time on CNN on Monday night …

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, CNN and Yahoo! News

The Huffington Post:
David Catanese, Politico Reporter, Removed From Todd Akin Coverage

Discussion: Media Decoder, Online NewsHour, Politico, Mediaite and Erik Wemple

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Politico's Catanese no longer covering Akin controversy after defending ‘legitimate rape’ comment

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, Slate, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Capital New York and Erik Wemple

David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Todd Akin Interviewer: ‘I Screwed Up’ By Not Following Up

Discussion: New York Times, Associated Press, Boston Globe, National Review, The Daily Beast, Slate and Gawker

BBC:

Julian Assange row: Embassy entry ‘would be suicide for UK’ — President Rafael Correa said he thought there was still a threat of the UK entering the embassy — The UK would be committing diplomatic suicide if it tried to enter his country's embassy in London, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has said.

Discussion: The Week

Kiran Randhawa / London Evening Standard:

Friend of Julian Assange names ‘sexual assault victim’ on live television — One of Julian Assange's key supporters came under fire today after naming on live television a woman who has accused the WikiLeaks founder of sexual assault. Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan …

David Allen Green / New Statesman:
Legal myths about the Assange extradition

Discussion: Guardian

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble Q1 revenues up slightly, but Nook device sales fall — Barnes & Noble reported first quarter earnings for fiscal year 2013 on Tuesday morning. The bookstore chain's revenues were up slightly, to $1.45 billion, and in line with analyst estimates of $1.48 billion.

Discussion: AllThingsD, CNET, Media Decoder, Barnes & Noble, Inc., ZDNet and TechCrunch

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

NFW: Adam Penenberg Joins PandoDaily as Editor — Everyone in the startup ecosystem will tell you that the most successful entrepreneurs surround themselves with people who are better than them. So I know I'm on the right track, when I hire someone who makes me wonder how on earth I have managed to get him.

Discussion: @digiphile, @penenberg and @moorehn

Richard Wilson / Press Gazette:

Death toll of journalists in Syria rises to 15 this year — Syria has been labelled “the most dangerous place in the world” for journalists after Japanese reporter Mika Yamamota was killed amid fighting in Aleppo. — Yamamoto, 45, was an experienced war reporter who had covered conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq for Japan Press.

Miwa Suzuki / Agence France Presse:
Japanese reporter killed in Syria: Japan govt

Discussion: Committee to Protect … and The Atlantic Wire

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

ABC News Stumbles in Report on Tony Scott's Suicide — ABC News appears to have stumbled on flawed reporting for the second time in a month. — Late Monday, ABC backed off an earlier report saying that Tony Scott, the movie director who committed suicide on Sunday, had inoperable brain cancer.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, TVWeek.com, Inside Movies, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues and LA Observed

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Misleading and incomplete coverage of Apple's ‘record’ value (CORRECTED) — Microsoft's 1999 market cap still, by far, bigger — The big market news today is about Apple's gargantuan market capitalization reaching a new, stunning high: … CNNMoney: … The Wall Street Journal's lede:

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, TUAW, ZDNet, AllThingsD, CNNMoney.com, PC Magazine, Associated Press and Business Insider

Jim Romenesko:

Red and Black board reinstates top two editors — Polina Marinova, who resigned as Red and Black editor-in-chief last week after a dispute over control of the University of Georgia newspaper, has returned to the position. Managing editor Julia Carpenter is also returning to her job.

Discussion: Poynter, The Red and Black and Athens Daily News

Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Metrics, metrics everywhere: How do we measure the impact of journalism? — If democracy would be poorer without journalism, then journalism must have some effect. Can we measure those effects in some way? While most news organizations already watch the numbers that translate into money …

Discussion: What People Know

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Head of ABC's ‘This Week’ Is Leaving to Join PepsiCo — ABC News will cover this presidential campaign without one of its veteran journalists. Jon Banner, executive producer of George Stephanopoulos's Sunday morning public affairs show “This Week,” will leave ABC News for a job at PepsiCo.

Discussion: TVNewser

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Are Alternative Weeklies Toast? — Over the weekend, Rosie Gray, a former staffer at The Village Voice now at BuzzFeed, wrote that the men in charge of Village Voice Media had more or less the run the place into the ground. She pointed to staff layoffs on Friday at the newspaper …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Vouchification, @weareyourfek and Capital New York

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: The Village Voice is not dead yet, contrary to reports

Campbell Brown / Slate:

Confessions of a Romney Wife — I never thought I was harboring a dark secret. But if you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in. There are quite a number of us who inhabit this world …

Discussion: Forbes, Mediaite and TVNewser