Mediagazer: Fox News Purports to Identify Author of Book on Bin Laden Raid (Julie Bosman/Media Decoder)

2:10 PM ET, August 23, 2012

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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Fox News Purports to Identify Author of Book on Bin Laden Raid — Fox News on Thursday purported to identify the member of the Navy SEALs who has written a narrative account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. — The member of the SEALs who wrote the book, “No Easy Day,” …

Discussion: Fox News, Guardian, Business Insider, TVNewser and Pressing Issues

Patrick Gavin / Politico:

Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily — After 14 years at National Public Radio, Andrea Seabrook left in July and, to hear her talk about her experience covering Capitol Hill, it's clear that she had one takeaway: It's damn frustrating. “I realized that there is a part of covering Congress …

Discussion: The FJP and @jayrosen_nyu

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Harriet Harman calls for cross-party action to limit Murdochs' power in UK — Labour's deputy leader has called on politicians of all political parties to work together to legislate for the breakup of the Murdoch family's media empire in the UK on the eve of a keynote speech …

Discussion: The Independent, Deadline.com and Scotsman

Katherine Rushton / The Daily Telegraph:
The reign of Elisabeth, a different kind of Murdoch?

Discussion: Reuters

Alicia Calzada / NPPA:

NYPD Returns NY Times Photographer's Press Credentials — Today (8/23/12) the New York Police Department (NYPD) returned the press credentials of a New York Times photographer who had his equipment and credentials seized following his arrest on August 4th. Robert Stolarik …

Discussion: Poynter and Gothamist

NYT Bits:

Despite #NBCFail, NBC and Twitter Say Partnership Was Success — If you followed the griping by Twitter users about NBC's handling of the Olympic Games, you might think the NBC-Twitter Olympics partnership was an epic disaster. NBC's decision to time-delay most events prompted angry kvetching …

Discussion: CNET

Bloomberg:

Tribune Creditors Win Potential Halt To Bankruptcy Plan — Tribune Co. creditors won the chance to temporarily halt the television and newspaper company's exit from bankruptcy should they agree to post a $1.5 billion bond, a judge ruled. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey agreed with noteholders …

Discussion: paidContent

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

ABC News still waiting to hear from Tony Scott's family before addressing brain cancer report — ABC News still hasn't confirmed whether Tony Scott had inoperable brain cancer, despite reporting that he did and then acknowledging doubts about the accuracy of its initial single-sourced report.

Discussion: L.A. NOW, Los Angeles Times and Boing Boing

Erik Maza / WWD:

Newsweek's Revolving Doors — HEADING OUT: Newsweek's revolving doors keep on spinning. Dirk Barnett, creative director, is leaving to join the greener pastures of The New Republic. Barnett is a big loss following what have been already brutal back-to-back weeks of bad press for the newsweekly.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

DOJ compares Apple and publishers to big oil in ebooks case — In a filing late Wednesday in response to Apple and book publishers, the Department of Justice reiterates its claim that agency pricing and the alleged conspiracy have resulted in “unmistakable consumer harm,” but refuses to release its ebook pricing analysis.

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Google lashes out at German copyright ‘threat’ — Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories. — Well, actually that's slightly inaccurate: the draft law would make search engines pay …

Discussion: WebProNews, PC World, InformationWeek, Muktware Daily Newsletter, Search Engine Land and Daily Dot

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Prince Harry naked pictures: royal aides threatened legal action against papers — Prince Charles's royal aides threatened legal action against newspapers if they published photographs of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel room, despite the fact they were freely available on the internet.

Discussion: @debgalant and The Daily Beast

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Longreads offers some exclusive content to paying members — Longform journalism site Longreads, which curates long stories from around the web that are “best enjoyed away from your desk,” has started offering paying members “exclusive access to stories that aren't available anywhere else on the web …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk: How long-form journalism is getting ‘a new lease of life’ in the digital world

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Study Of Presidential Race Finds Coverage Of Candidates Overwhelmingly Negative — When it comes to presidential politics, the media is doing a fairly poor job of mediating. Coverage of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, especially on cable TV and leading news websites, is increasingly driven …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Journalism.org and mediabistro.com

Miranda Maxwell / Reuters:

Australia's Fairfax slashes newspaper values by almost $3 billion — (Reuters) - Australian publisher Fairfax Media (FXJ.AX) slashed the value of its newspaper titles by almost $3 billion on Thursday, as it posted a steep fall in profit and said it saw no early turnaround in the worst advertising conditions in more than 30 years.