Mediagazer: Curry's revenge: NBC's ‘Today’ reeling after kicking Ann to the curb (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

11:40 AM ET, September 18, 2012

Top News:

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

William and Kate win French injunction over topless photos — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have won an injunction in a French court preventing celebrity magazine Closer from publishing further paparazzi shots of the duchess sunbathing topless. Mondadori France, Closer's publishing company …

Discussion: Speakeasy, Gawker, CNN, Media Week and The Daily Beast

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Irish Daily Star closure threat recedes after publication of topless Kate photos — Independent News and Media, a 50% stakeholder, launches investigation and suspends editor Mike O'Kane — The threat to close the Irish Daily Star in the wake of the decision to publish the controversial pictures …

RTÉ:
Irish Daily Star Editor Michael O'Kane suspended over Kate Middleton photos

Discussion: The Irish Times and The Atlantic Wire

Bill Carter / New York Times:

All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site — Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. — “We want to collect all the books …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, JIMROMENESKO.COM, TVNewser, Internet Archive Blogs, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, LJ INFOdocket, MetaFilter and WatchingTV Online

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Mother Jones to release full video today — Mother Jones, which obtained video of Mitt Romney's remarks about the “47 percent” at a Boca Raton fundraiser, plans to release the full video later today, the magazine's co-editor Clara Jeffrey told POLITICO. — “We have the whole tape, which we're releasing later today,” Jeffrey said.

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

The Long Strange Leak Of Mitt Romney's 47% Video — On May 17, Mitt Romney spoke bluntly at a fundraiser at the home of a private equity executive in Boca Raton. Someone recorded him speaking, and that unexploded digital ordnance lay around the 2012 campaign until Monday, when it erupted under Romney's campaign.

Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, AllThingsD, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Poynter and New York Magazine

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Rupert Murdoch Makes Peace with “Pirate” Google, Starts Selling Movies — At the beginning of 2012, Rupert Murdoch was railing against Google, labeling it the “piracy leader.” — But that was January! Now Murdoch's 20th Century Fox studio has cut a deal to sell and rent its movies …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Softpedia News

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Curry's revenge: NBC's ‘Today’ reeling after kicking Ann to the curb — Less than three months after a tearful Ann Curry bid goodbye to NBC's “Today” show, it's the network's turn to cry. The once-dominant morning powerhouse is falling even further behind in the ratings race …

Discussion: Forbes, Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it — The BBC's new director-general has vowed to merge TV, radio and online teams so that the corporation creates “genuinely digital content for the first time”. The BBC is often thought of as an online exemplar.

Discussion: Guardian, Fast Company, bbc.co.uk and @jayrosen_nyu

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Condé Nast Plans French Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair magazine, which has been battling declining newsstand sales in the United States, is looking for more readers in Europe. Next year, Condé Nast is starting a monthly edition of Vanity Fair in France.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Associated Press:

Bangladesh blocks YouTube to prevent people from seeing anti-Islamic video — DHAKA, Bangladesh — The government in Bangladesh has blocked YouTube to prevent people from seeing an anti-Islam video produced in the U.S. ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. — Mir Mohammaed Morshed …

Discussion: The Statesman and thehindubusinessline.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Daily News’ touts gains with new national website — The Daily News' bid to reposition its website as a nationally-facing product appears to be paying off. — Since redesigning and relaunching its homepage as “Daily News America” at the beginning of July, unique visitors to nydailynews.com …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Daily News names Joel Siegel politics editor

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Will Sommer / City Desk:

Post's Chinese Visa Fight Ends With a Whimper — So much for the Washington Post's three-year long attempt to actually get its China bureau chief into China. Ever since the Post hired Andrew Higgins in 2009, the paper has been trying to convince the Chinese government to grant him a visa …

Martin Hickman / The Independent:

Exclusive: News of the World ‘ordered burglary’ — Detectives have evidence which suggests that a notorious private detective agency carried out a burglary while working for the News of the World. In the latest twist to the phone-hacking scandal, a police intelligence report indicates …

Discussion: CJR, Tom Watson MP and London News

Rick Rojas / Los Angeles Times:

Reporting live from the front lines of protest is his stream job — The man who goes by CrossXBones finagled his way into the center of the scrum. Sweat beaded on his shaved head, an American Spirit cigarette dangled from his mouth and a massive can of energy drink was holstered on the strap of his backpack.

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Arrested In Occupy Wall Street Protests

Discussion: New York Magazine, Storify, Politico, Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Bloomberg, Washington Post and ABCNEWS

Rob Crilly / The Telegraph:

Newsweek's ‘Muslim Rage’: A sickening piece of shock journalism that cheapens a once great magazine — As angry protests spread through the Muslim world, I knew where to head. The Red Mosque is only a five minute drive from my home in Islamabad and protests were planned for the end of Friday prayers.

Discussion: The Daily Beast