Mediagazer: HuffPost Live Chief: We're Doing Great, But We Don't Know Yet How To Measure How Great (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

9:00 AM ET, September 26, 2012

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William Turvill / PressGazette:

The accused: At least 46 journalists arrested by UK police in the last 16 months — The arrest of an unnamed Sun employee last week means at least 46 journalists have now been arrested as part of Metropolitan Police operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta and Scottish police investigation Rubicon.

Discussion: Guardian

BBC:

Phone-hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in 2013 trial — Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are among those who appeared at the Old Bailey in London — Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson have learned their trial …

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Rupert Murdoch backs down in war with ‘parasite’ Google — Rupert Murdoch has been forced to back down in his war with Google, amid fears that his newspapers are losing their influence because they do not appear in the search engine's rankings. — In the past, Rupert Murdoch has lambasted Google …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Guardian, Media Week, paidContent and @jayrosen_nyu

Amy Wallace / Los Angeles Magazine:

Caught Getting Creative — The disgrace of wunderkind writer Jonah Lehrer, outed for manufacturing quotes, reverberates worst in the city he calls home — Here's what we thought we knew about Jonah Lehrer: Only 31 years old and dweebishly handsome—nerd-hip Clark Kent glasses below a flop of hair …

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, mediabistro.com, Forbes, Gawker, Poynter, Slate, New York Magazine and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Jonah Lehrer: I'm Writing About My Plagiarism Scandal

Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:

NYT's data center power reports like taking a time machine back to 2006 — The data center industry is seemingly in a frenzy over the negative tone and information left out of the New York Times' series on data centers and power consumption, which debuted this weekend (part 1 and part 2).

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forbes, Data Center Knowledge, Softpedia News, Boing Boing, New York Magazine and The Next Web

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Twitter founder says influence is in retweets. NFL player shows why — Evan Williams said that the most interesting measure of Twitter influence is how often someone is re-tweeted. NFL guard TJ Lang's profanity-laced tweets last night illustrated the point.

Discussion: NYT Bits, Forbes and PandoDaily

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How Getty photographer captured controversial NFL call at end of Packers, Seahawks game

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

MacKenzie sues South Yorkshire police over Hillsborough lies — Kelvin MacKenzie is fighting back over his infamous Hillsborough coverage. He has instructed lawyers to write to South Yorkshire police seeking an apology for being misled by its officers in 1989.

Discussion: Spectator

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

HuffPost Live Chief: We're Doing Great, But We Don't Know Yet How To Measure How Great — How many people are watching HuffPost Live, the new-wave cable TV channel launched in August by the Huffington Post? “More than I had hoped,” says president and co-creator Roy Sekoff. — And how many is that?

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and paidContent

Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

Ethics Force Press Pool to Deny Delicious Offers from POTUS — President Obama keeps trying to test out the journalistic integrity of the White House pool reporters by offering to buy them food at all of the delicious diners, drive ins, and dives he stops at while travelling across the country.

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Mark Mulligan / Music Industry Blog:

Why Losing Free Customers is a Good Thing for Spotify's Business Model — In my Future Music Forum keynote last week I discussed some Spotify metrics which were picked up by Paid Content and have stirred up a bit of a debate. Here is a little more context to those numbers.

Jim Romenesko:

College editor publishes story on his own after it's spiked by administrators — Alex Green, editor of the student newspaper at Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., heard over the summer that his Biblical Studies professor was leaving the school. He emailed the teacher, David Morgan …

Discussion: College Media Matters and The Newspaper Guild

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Building a better sports bar: SB Nation redesigns its blog network — News website redesigns these days often hit on a few current trends: making them cleaner, more responsive, more touchable, more app-like. — The sports network SB Nation has done all that with today's design update …

Discussion: SBNation.com, Adweek, The Verge and NetNewsCheck Latest