Mediagazer: Two people removed from RNC after taunting black camera operator (CNN)

9:35 AM ET, August 29, 2012

Top News:

Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails — A journalist was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of computer hacking. The 28-year-old man, understood to be the former Times journalist Patrick Foster, was held at his north London home on Wednesday morning.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson rulings expected to include ‘excoriating’ criticism of the press — Lord Justice Leveson is expected to launch what is being described as “excoriating” criticism of the press after notices went out to all newspaper groups warning them that he anticipates making rulings on everything from privacy to self-regulation.

Severin Carrell / Guardian:

Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor — Bob Bird, the former Scotland editor of the News of the World, has been arrested and charged by police investigating allegations of perjury and phone hacking linked to Tommy Sheridan's conviction for lying in court.

Discussion: @jamesdoleman

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Wall Street Journal wants its reporters filing microvideo updates for its new WorldStream — The Wall Street Journal has been busy expanding its video offerings and experimenting with dedicated news streams in recent months. Today, the natural merger of the two debuts: a stream of reporter-generated videos called WorldStream.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Rolling Stone, Online Journalism Review and Digiday

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists — Since news organizations are paying all that money for journalists to carry around iPhones, why not put them to better use? — The Wall Street Journal is launching a new streaming-video product that does just that.

Discussion: Mashable!

CNN:

Two people removed from RNC after taunting black camera operator — Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Two people were removed from the Republican National Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-American CNN camera operator and said, “This is how we feed animals.”

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Erik Wemple, Talking Points Memo, Clutch Magazine, New York Magazine, Politico, Pressing Issues and Gawker

Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot: Reporter's Tumblr gets him barred from RNC party

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA — Mark Mazzetti reports on national security for The New York Times. He sent the text of a Maureen Dowd column that hadn't yet been published to CIA spokesperson Marie Harf, Dylan Byers reported Tuesday morning. …

Discussion: @craigsilverman, Talking Points Memo and FishbowlNY

Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT reporter leaked advance copy of Maureen Dowd column to CIA

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Lindsay Kalter / American Journalism Review:

The Ann Arbor Precedent — Three years before it announced it was taking a digital-first approach and cutting back on print publishing at papers in New Orleans and three other states, Newhouse's Advance Publications adopted a similar MO in Ann Arbor, Michigan. How has it worked out?

The Patriot-News:
Patriot-News and PennLive.com will merge to form PA Media Group

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Patriot-News, Post-Standard will reduce print frequency to three days a week

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Patriot-News, @joseiswriting, Syracuse Post-Standard, @keachhagey and The Newspaper Guild

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Exclusive: Amazon NY to sell its ebooks through B&N, Kobo, other retailers — Amazon's New York-based imprint, headed by Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned. The deal, through Ingram's digital distribution arm CoreSource …

Klint Finley / TechCrunch:

Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments — News publishers are becoming tech companies, right down to the Google Labs style experimental sites: The New York Times Company Research & Development Lab, The Globe Lab, WapPo Labs...

Amy Wicks / WWD:

Sally Singer Out at T — Sally Singer is out as editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Singer joined the Times back in July 2010 after a long run at Vogue as fashion news and features director. At the time, she succeeded Stefano Tonchi who left T to become editor in chief of W …

Discussion: Media Decoder and MinOnline

Erik Maza / WWD: Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalists in Afghanistan — New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it.

Associated Press:

New York Times leading group defense in patent suit over mobile texts containing Web links — The New York Times Co. is girding for a legal battle that many larger organizations have avoided. The Times is leading the defense of a diverse group of companies that use technology they assumed was free …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why newspapers need to get to know their readers better — We've pointed out before how Facebook and Twitter face the same kind of problem that the mainstream media industry is struggling with — namely, finding enough advertising revenue to make up for the fact that they are essentially giving away …

Thanks:@jaredgoyette

Muck Rack:

Journalist Of The Day: NYT's Daniel Victor Talks About Social Media — Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) recently became the Social Media Producer at New York Times, and to celebrate this tremendous occasion, he decided to talk to Much Rack about the role of social media in his career as a journalist.