Mediagazer: Journalism's Summer of Sin marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation (Craig Silverman/Poynter)

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

The Journal Register debacle: why Chapter 11 comes before ‘digital first’ — Touted by industry worthies as the digital future in the making, the Journal Register is more a business of financial engineering — Last November the New York Times' media reporter, David Carr …

Robert Mankoff / The New Yorker Blog:

Nipplegate — The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it's just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it's a whole lotta like. We like that. — What we don't like is that we …

Discussion: PandoDaily, Mediaite, Betabeat, Gawker and New York Magazine

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Journalism's Summer of Sin marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation — Fall will mark the end of journalism's Summer of Sin, when a cavalcade of plagiarism, fabrication and unethical recycling damaged several careers and publications. — In many cases, these incidents …

Discussion: Melville House Books and Gatekeeper

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

After Summer of Turmoil, Oxford American Appoints Roger Hodge Editor — After enduring weeks of unflattering attention over the firing of its editor, The Oxford American has hired a successor: Roger D. Hodge, a Texas-born editor and veteran of New York media.

Discussion: The Wrap and bookforum.com

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers' ebooks — Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice's settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks.

Discussion: CNET, The Verge, Media Decoder and The Shatzkin Files

Discussion: Forbes and Associated Press

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

US site Homicide Watch DC exceeds $40k crowdfunding target — The US site will use the funding to run Homicide Watch DC as a ‘student reporting lab’ for the next year while founder Laura Amico and her husband Chris study journalism innovation at Harvard — US crime reporting site Homicide Watch DC …

Discussion: PandoDaily, Homicide Watch DC, @homicidewatch, Poynter, City Desk and New York Times

Danelle Morton / CJR:

Bruce R. Brugmann, one of the last of the alt-weekly lions, is calling it quits. Sort of. — Bruce B. Brugmann is a stubborn guy who sticks to his point of view, even as the world he helped build is disappearing. Fitting then to sit with him late in June in the cavernous warehouse offices …

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

NBC Paralympics Coverage Criticized By IPC — NBC's Olympics coverage was criticized by another entity on Monday. The International Paralympics Committee (IPC) said that it would further scrutinize media partners in the future after NBC did not air any live coverage of the 2012 games.

Discussion: BBC

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

How To Get Banned From Instapaper — If you tried to snag a page from 9to5Mac to read later with Instapaper yesterday, you got this error message: It's the first time I'd ever seen a publisher block Instapaper — in fact, Instapaper says, “As of the time of writing, no major publishers have chosen to opt out.”

Discussion: 9to5Mac

New York Post:

Penske takes inside track in Variety auction — Variety, the legendary but struggling Hollywood magazine, is still not ready for its close-up. — Reed Elsevier, looking to unload the 107-year-old title, its last remaining North American trade magazine, has been forced to cut Variety's asking price …

Discussion: LA Observed and FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Ken Lerer's CNN-Killer Hires a CNN Veteran — Who do you hire if you're a start-up that wants to reinvent TV news? — You start, apparently, with pros from brand-name media outlets. — That's what Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer has been doing as he builds up a supposedly stealthy …

Discussion: Poynter, Lost Remote, Betabeat, The Wrap, Capital New York, TVNewser and mediabistro.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Helen Gurley Brown's $18 M bequest to Columbia journalism school nets new-media guru Mark Hansen — Six months before she died this past August, legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown gave the Columbia Journalism School the largest gift in its 100-year history …

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, CJR and Columbia University …