Mediagazer: ‘Daily News’ rolling out a local digital-media consultancy for small businesses (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)

10:20 AM ET, September 21, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

In New Policy, The Times Forbids After-the-Fact ‘Quote Approval’ — The New York Times is drawing “a clear line” against the practice of news sources being allowed to approve quotations in stories after the fact. — The practice, known as quote approval, “puts so much control over the content …

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New York Times bans quote approval, kind of

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Writer finds more plagiarism, problems in Jonah Lehrer's books — Greg Beato's “Welcome to the Golden Age of Fact-Checking” is an excellent meditation on the technological and cultural changes that have contributed to our ever-more-transparent society. — But screw it, let's get to the parts where he nails Jonah Lehrer.

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Greg Beato / Reason:

Welcome to the Golden Age of Fact-Checking — What the Jonah Lehrer debacle reveals about the state of journalism today — For the last several years, the universe has been kicking journalists. In 2012, they started kicking themselves. There was Jonah Lehrer and his fake Dylan quotes.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

James Murdoch ‘set for top Fox Networks job’ — Rupert Murdoch's second son is being lined up to run News Corp's Fox TV businesses in the US, according to a report — James Murdoch is reportedly being lined up to run News Corporation's Fox TV business in the US despite being sharply criticised …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: NI chief tries to boost Sun morale

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

New USA Today website ‘very, very influenced by iPad design’ — When “the nation's newspaper” decided to redesign its website alongside its print product for its 30th anniversary, it chose an international team of Web designers based in the U.S. and abroad.

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Kirsten Acuna / Business Insider:
Check Out These USA Today Homepage Design Concepts That Didn't Make The Cut

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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

NPR's Todd Mundt says public radio needs to innovate or die — NPR has become a poster child for legacy news organizations' ability to reinvent themselves for the digital age: Its website and mobile apps are used by millions of people, NPR Music is a runaway hit, office hack days are a model …

Guardian:

EMI chief executive Roger Faxon's email to staff — Music labels will have to be sold off to enable Universal's takeover to go ahead — It has been almost eleven months since Citi reached an agreement to sell EMI Music to Universal Music Group. From that moment to this …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley

Jim Romenesko:

Distrust in U.S. media hits a new high — Highlights from the just-released poll: — * This year's decline in media trust is driven by independents and Republicans. — * Republicans express the least trust in the media, while Democrats express the most.

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Brett Sokol / The Awl:

One Town, Two Newspapers: Will the Real Digital Innovators Please Stand Up? — Another day, another newspaper bankruptcy. This time it was the Journal Register national chain, home to eighteen small dailies including the New Haven Register, and now operating under the seemingly sexier-sounding name of Digital First Media.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Time Warner CEO Explains Why He Doesn't Care About Selling HBO To Cord-Cutters (Or Old Folks) — If cord-cutters were a political party, the first plank of their platform would be the right to subscribe to HBO directly over the internet without signing up for cable or satellite TV service.

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
HBO CEO Bill Nelson retiring, Richard Plepler to succeed him

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Daily News’ rolling out a local digital-media consultancy for small businesses — Mort Zuckerman's Daily News is on the verge of rolling out a major business-development initiative that management has come to view as crucial to the future of the company. — Monday marks the launch …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and MediaPost

Bob Cohn / The Atlantic Online:

Hiring in the Digital Age — Even for twentysomethings, the job description is clear: Everyone is an editor in chief. — Not so long ago, magazine and newspaper editors knew exactly what they were looking for when hiring young journalists. Certain jobs called for certain skills …

Discussion: B2B Memes

Jessica Wohl / Reuters:

Exclusive: Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer sell Amazon.com Inc's Kindle products, making it the second major chain to stop selling Amazon's devices, as the world's largest retailer makes a bet that consumers are more interested in other gadgets.

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Nieman Journalism Lab:

Four reasons why an open-source newsroom is harder than it looks: Lessons from Al Jazeera — Editor's Note: Nikki Usher and Seth C. Lewis are academic researchers studying the intersection of journalists and technologists, or “hacks and hackers.” The latest part of their work included Usher's …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Maxim Cuts Circulation 20% — Publisher Drops Rate Base From 2.5 Million to 2 Million and Eyes Growth Elsewhere — Maxim magazine is cutting the paid circulation it guarantees advertisers from 2.5 million to 2 million next year, a 20% drop, and reducing its publishing frequency to 10 issues next year from 11 this year.

Serene Assir / Agence France Presse:

Citizen journalist killed in Syria ‘Bermuda Triangle’ — BEIRUT — A citizen journalist who used the name Abu Hassan to report from the central Syrian city of Hama was burnt to death after regime forces targeted his home in an assault, an activist told AFP on Thursday.

Discussion: Guardian

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

ESPN builds a Twitter-style firehose for sports news — ESPN is giving sports fans a way to hook up to its firehose of content with a new Twitter-style stream called SportsCenter Feed. The sports cable and online network is amassing almost every bit of content it pushes out over ESPN.com …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!