Mediagazer: Australia's old media outstripped as online boosts ad share (Victoria Thieberger/Reuters)

9:05 AM ET, September 20, 2012

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Kate Holton / Reuters:

UK regulator clears BSkyB of links to hacking scandal — (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator gave pay-TV firm BSkyB a clean bill of health on Thursday, saying there was no evidence it was linked to a phone hacking scandal which has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, its largest shareholder.

Discussion: The Independent, New York Times, BBC and Guardian

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Sky might be ‘fit and proper’, but Ofcom has harsh words for James Murdoch — The media regulator may given BSkyB the all-clear, but it criticised Murdoch over his handling of the hacking scandal — Harsh words for James Murdoch from Ofcom, as the regulator concluded that BSkyB was a …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: BSkyB CEO Touts Original Content Push, Says Won't Need to Acquire Production Firm

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp shareholders in US want to sue over phone hacking scandal

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Fast Company, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Victoria Thieberger / Reuters:

Australia's old media outstripped as online boosts ad share — (Reuters) - A pack of new media specialists in Australia has surpassed many of the country's newspapers and television networks in size after diverting away the precious advertising dollars that have sustained the old guard for decades.

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Mitt Says Dave Hates Him. Not So, Says Dave, Who Invites Him to Appear. — Does David Letterman hate Mitt Romney? — Mr. Romney said so on the surreptitiously recorded tape of his comments at a fund-raiser in May, which have stirred a firestorm of reaction in the news media this week.

Discussion: Speakeasy, TheBlaze.com, Pressing Issues, ABCNEWS, The Caucus and CNN

Eddie Scarry / FishbowlDC:

Attribution Problem: AP Swipes Story From The Hill — It takes a certain amount of clumsiness to break something that's already broken. — The Hill's Alexandra Jaffe broke the news yesterday that Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was distancing himself from remarks made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Discussion: Associated Press, Boston Herald and Business Insider

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Scott Brown forces The Hill to change story

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Vanity Fair

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Is there a tomorrow for USA Today? — USA Today celebrated its 30th anniversary last week with a plump commemorative edition and a meh facelift, but can it survive another 30 years? As a digital brand, potentially. As a print publication, probably not. — The third-largest newspaper …

Discussion: Gannett Blog

PressGazette:

Mail Online surges past 100m browsers in August — Mail Online reported more than 100m unique monthly browsers for the first time in August, according to the latest online traffic figures from ABC. — During the month that saw both the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in London …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Jim Romenesko:

Talent exchange at the Washington Post — Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli today announced “a talent exchange with our cousins at WaPo Labs” that “should accelerate the pace of digital innovation in the Newsroom and add editorial weight to the team at Labs.”

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Journal Register likely to reduce print to three days a week at some papers — The new slimmed-down Journal Register company, being pieced together in a bankruptcy proceeding, is likely to reduce print frequency at several of its 20 dailies. — “I would consider and am considering a reduction …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

How Mother Jones got the Romney ‘47 percent’ story — Big scoops come in small increments. It takes some luck and some connections, some phone calls and e-mails, and the time to build a relationship. Just ask David Corn. Corn, the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine …

Discussion: Slate, Politico, Election 2012, Forbes, Capital New York, New York Times and The Fix

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Makes ‘Redistribution’ Argument, Bolstered by Fox News, Conservative Media

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Huffington Post offers job to James Carter IV after he facilitates leak of Romney video to competitor

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild, The Young Turks …, Associated Press and Politico

Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:

Roku to Launch Streaming Stick in October — And Then Wait for Consumers to Catch Up to New TV Standard — If there's one thing that can be said about Roku devices — set-top boxes that stream Internet video to TV sets — it's that they're easy to use. — Which is why it's surprising …

Discussion: TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, Cable Television News and Softpedia News

James Temple / The Technology Chronicles:

Social media moguls take hit on Forbes 400 list — The rapidly shifting fortunes of social media companies has hit the wallets of the industry's leaders, according to the Forbes 400 list published today, the magazine's annual envy list. — As the Associated Press pointed out …

Discussion: Forbes and Time

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Former TechCrunch Editor Erick Schonfeld To Run DEMO — The technology conference wars just got a bit more dramatic. Former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld is taking over the management of DEMO from VentureBeat editor in chief Matt Marshall, who is returning to the tech blog exclusively …

TheLensNola.org:

The Lens hires prizewinner Tyler Bridges to cover public policy — Veteran prize-winning reporter Tyler Bridges will become a staff writer with The Lens on Oct. 1, focusing on state-level public-policy decisions that affect the New Orleans area. — Bridges is returning to New Orleans …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Newsweek Daily Beast Names Hill Holliday's Baba Shetty Its New CEO — Succeeds Stephen Colvin, Who Led Daily Beast Since Before Newsweek Merger — The Newsweek Daily Beast Company is naming Baba Shetty its new CEO, succeeding Stephen Colvin, who had president CEO at The Daily Beast since 2009 …

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