Mediagazer: Twitter's new Lifeline feature in Japan helps people find relevant accounts quickly during emergencies (Matthew Panzarino/The Next Web)

5:20 AM ET, September 25, 2012

Top News:

Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F**k Off” And “Have A Nice Life” — On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton's longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State's handling …

Discussion: Politico, Daily Download, Poynter, Election 2012, Politicker, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, @johnjcook, Capital New York, Guardian, nation.foxnews.com and nation.foxnews.com

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Amid Criticism, CNN Defends Reporting on Ambassador's Journal

Discussion: TVNewser

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Libya Consulate Not Secured Days After Attack, Journalists Say

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Print Sex Ads Will Remain at Newly-Formed Voice Media Group — Backpage.com may be gone, but sex ads are here to stay at the alt weeklies formerly owned by Village Voice Media. Over the weekend, Village Voice Media announced it had reshuffled and separated its 13 newspapers from Backpage.com …

Discussion: Capital New York and New York Post

Michael Wolff / Guardian:
The Village Voice's synthetic solution to a synthetic sex ad scandal

Discussion: Gawker

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Village Voice spins off Backpage.com

Discussion: New York Magazine, Deadline.com and NYConvergence.com

Chris Selley / National Post:

On Margaret Wente, plagiarism, and the Globe's public editor-cum-union rep — It's tough to pick the most discreditable aspect of Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead's train wreck response to serious allegations of journalistic malpractice against columnist Margaret Wente. There are so many contenders.

Discussion: Macleans.ca and John Gordon Miller's Blog

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Canadian columnist accused of plagiarism

Discussion: Globe and Mail, Macleans.ca, Canada's online magazine and Plagiarism Today

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Willie Geist to Co-Host Third Hour of ‘Today’ — Willie Geist, a co-host of the rollicking MSNBC morning show “Morning Joe,” is moving over to NBC's flagship “Today” show as a co-host of the franchise's 9 a.m. hour. — The promotion is expected to be announced by NBC this week …

Discussion: TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, Mediaite, The Wrap, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Broadcasters get unlikely support from Cablevision in Aereo case — Cablevision has thrown its support behind major U.S. broadcast networks in their bid to stop Aereo Inc, an online television start-up backed by billionaire Barry Diller, from broadcasting TV programming over the Internet.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Cablevision Tells Aereo to Get Off Its Team

Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:

Deadline owner Penske likely to buy Variety — Daily Variety will soon be acquired by Penske Media, the owner of Deadline.com. (Variety website / September 24, 2012) — Hollywood's 107-year-old industry trade publication Variety and 6-year-old online competitor Deadline …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter's new Lifeline feature in Japan helps people find relevant accounts quickly during emergencies — Twitter just launched a very cool feature in Japan called Lifeline. It allows Japanese users of Twitter to use their postal code to find and follow local accounts that are important in emergencies.

Discussion: WebProNews and PC Magazine

Jerusalem Post:

‘NY Post’ gifts Ahmadinejad with Jew-themed basket — Publication offers visiting Iranian president Manischewitz, Gefilte Fish, I ♥ New York underwear hoping he will lose “bloodthirst.” — The New York Post on Sunday offered Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a basket brimming …

Discussion: @shreeyasinha, The Inquisitr, The Jewish Week, Piers Morgan and New York Post

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

YouTube Expands Translation Tools For Video Captions To 300+ Languages — YouTube just announced that it is now making it easier for video creators to translate their video captions to more than 300 languages by integrating the YouTube Video Manager with the Google Translator Toolkit.

Discussion: CNET, Engadget and YouTube Creator Blog

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

MIT and the Boston Globe: can universities reboot news outlets? — As old school news outlets struggle to find their footing in the digital world, a new partnership between two flagship Boston institutions presents some intriguing possibilities. The program will see MIT students embedded directly …

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Lyor Cohen Resigns From Warner Music — Lyor Cohen, the dominant creative executive at the Warner Music Group for the last eight years, has resigned from the company, Warner announced on Monday. His departure adds another piece to the chess game of top music executives who are now free agents …

Discussion: The Wrap and Reuters

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:

The New York Times Union Contemplates a Collective Chant in the Lobby — or a Public Demo — Just before noon today, a stream of about 200 New York Times staffers left the company's headquarters at 620 Eighth Avenue, heading for the local hotel workers union a few blocks north.

Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago:

Konkol leaves Sun-Times to write for DNAInfo Chicago — Mark Konkol, the Chicago journalism superstar who won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting last year, is leaving the Sun-Times to join the startup of a hyperlocal digital news service covering city neighborhoods.

Paul Carr / PandoDaily:

Taxing Broadband to Save Journalism is One Big, Stupid Idea — We Need a Thousand Small, Smart Ones — David Leigh was first to be right about many things. — He was first to identify the potential of WikiLeaks to revolutionize transparency in the digital age.

Discussion: on, New Statesman and Big News Network.com

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
A broadband levy to fund journalism? Now that's a very clever idea

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Homicide Watch DC wins Online Journalism Award for public service — Crime reporting site Homicide Watch DC, which recently crowdfunded more than $40,000 to secure its survival through the creation of a student reporting lab, was named as one of the winners of the Online Journalism Awards at the weekend.

Discussion: MediaShift