Mediagazer: Magazine Publisher Bonnier Creates Accelerator Program for Media Startups (Nat Ives/AdAge)

10:10 AM ET, August 24, 2012

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp.'s Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will soon be leaving the media giant. — It seems to be a cordial, although perhaps inevitable, parting — sources said Miller will remain …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Exit Interview: Jon Miller On Transforming News Corp., Launching The Daily And What Comes Next — After three years as chief digital officer of News Corp. Jon Miller is leaving. It was an eventful few years, encompassing the sale of MySpace, the launch of The Daily, Hulu's addition of a subscription tier …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Elisabeth Murdoch: James should have stepped back in phone-hacking crisis — Rupert Murdoch's second daughter also confirms she asked for Rebekah Brooks to resign as NI chief executive last year — James Murdoch should have taken a “step back” from his number three job at News Corporation …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Elisabeth Murdoch turns on her father and brother in MacTaggart lecture — Tensions within the world's most powerful media family were dramatically laid bare on Thursday when Elisabeth Murdoch set out her own vision of media leadership, emphasising humanity over profit and criticising …

Discussion: Reuters, Media Week, Guardian, @peterlauria3 and Firedoglake

Katherine Rushton / The Daily Telegraph:
Elisabeth Murdoch distances herself from family

Discussion: Telegraph and Guardian

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Magazine Publisher Bonnier Creates Accelerator Program for Media Startups — Four Startups to Receive Seed Funding, Services and Consultation in 14-Week Program — Bonnier Corp., the publisher of magazines including Field & Stream and Popular Science, is beginning an effort …

Discussion: Transworld Business, MediaPost and Folio

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Missing reporter: 'Coming here to Syria is the greatest thing I've ever done' — In late July freelance reporter Austin Tice posted a message to his Facebook page explaining “why I'm doing this crazy thing.” He was in Syria, covering the war there for McClatchy, The Washington Post …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The News Tribune, Committee to Protect … and Washington Post

Hannah Allam / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Whereabouts of journalist Austin Tice, McClatchy contributor, unknown in Syria

Discussion: Poynter

Bobbie Johnson / paidContent:

Prince Harry's brush with radical transparency: you can't stop the web — On the internet, just like everywhere else, time only moves in one direction: forward. But that doesn't stop people trying to turn the clock back. — Take Britain's royal family, who contacted the editors …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Sun Says - The Sun, dailyrecord, World Now and Guardian

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Current TV to Turn Half the Screen Over to Twitter During Conventions — Networks Have Shown Tweets Before, But Current is Going Bigger — Current TV is handing over half its screen to Twitter during the conventions. — The cable news network, co-founded by former vice president Al Gore in 2005 …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, TVNewser and Lost Remote

Benjamin Shors / MediaShift:

At Rural Newspapers, Some Publishers Still Resist Moving Online — In 1968, Dick Graham bought a small weekly newspaper in Ferry County, Wash., one of the most remote and sparsely populated counties in the Pacific Northwest. — Forty-four years later — give or take a few months — broadband Internet is arriving.

Discussion: Garcia Media

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

State-level Romney aide imposed conditions, Denver reporter says — A huge media story blew up yesterday around the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney: Shaun Boyd, a reporter for Denver CBS affiliate KCNC-TV, said on-air that the campaign had barred her from asking the candidate any questions about abortion or Todd Akin.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Politicker and The Huffington Post

Jim Romenesko:

AP announces 2012 Gramling Award winners — Rodrigo Abd, whose haunting photo from Syria appeared on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post on March 9, is one of the $10,000 AP Gramling Award winners. AP CEO Gary Pruitt writes in his memo to the AP staff …

Daniel W. Drezner / Foreign Policy:

Intellectual power and responsibility in an age of superstars — In the last few weeks, Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson have found themselves at the centers of controversy. As someone who has written a thing or two about public intellectuals, I confess to finding it all very fascinating.

Discussion: Brad DeLong and HBR.org