Mediagazer: The business media needs to improve its Twitter use (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

1:20 PM ET, September 29, 2012

Top News:

Clyde Haberman / New York Times:

Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Changed The Times, Dies at 86 — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851, died on Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.

Discussion: Forbes, New York Magazine, Deadline.com, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, Gothamist, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Associated Press and The Raw Story

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Former New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger dies Saturday — In a note to all New York Times company employees, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., announced the death of his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, at 86. In 1963, Sulzberger became publisher of the paper, family owned since 1896.

Discussion: Guardian and The Wrap

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

Will TV's long love affair with car chases come to a screeching halt as Fox broadcasts suicide live? — After Fox inadvertently aired live video of a man in Phoenix shooting himself Friday following a car chase, Executive Vice President for News Michael Clemente tried to explain how it happened.

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Car Chases, Live TV, and Ethics

Discussion: Washington Post, Slate, @huffpostmedia, @jbflint, @dylanlscott, @stuartmillar159, @jaredbkeller, Tampa Bay Times, TVNewser, Politico and New York Magazine

Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Fox News carries live video of man shooting himself after car chase

Discussion: Softpedia News, Politico, Mediaite, The New York Observer, Broadcasting & Cable, B&C, Cable Television News, The Wrap, Politico and Media Decoder

Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:
Car Chase Ends In Man Shooting Himself On Live TV

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Shep Smith Apologizes For Fox News Airing Live Suicide: ‘We Really Messed Up’

Discussion: Poynter

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

The business media needs to improve its Twitter use — The business media use Twitter as a promotional tool and are not building an online community, according to research presented Friday by two Virginia Commonwealth University professors. — Vivian Medina-Messner and Marcus Messner found …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu and @ksablan

Economist:

Have I got news for you — “THE most humble day of my life,” is how Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, described his experience being excoriated by British parliamentarians in July 2011. Accusations of phone hacking, police bribery and negligence involving Mr Murdoch's News of the World …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Digital science mag Guru receives mobile app funding — Guru Magazine, which launched early last year, is hoping the funding will help it reach a larger audience and launch a mobile app by the end of the year — Guru Magazine, a digital-only science publication which launched around 18 months ago …

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

What does an even more digital BBC mean for the commercial media sector? — In the lead-up to our half-day Market Briefing seminar on Video Monetisation tools on 18 October, we'll be writing a series of analysis posts on the current and future state of video and broadcast media in a digital age.

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Independent ‘likely’ to ditch trial North America paywall — Almost a year after launch the Independent is reviewing its trial metered paywall for readers in the US and Canada as it ‘has not delivered on the ambitions from a revenue standpoint’ — The Independent's experiment metered paywall …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc.'s Lang Announces Shakeup — Time Inc.'s Laura Lang today bumped up Paul Caine to the role of group president, signaling an emphasis on global growth at a company facing a tough business climate. — Caine, who has quickly established himself as CEO Lang's right-hand man …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Mashable!

Charles Cooper / CNET:

Data mining for the masses: Google merges Trends, Insights — Merged product features new, easier-to-use interface that Google says will offer insights into what the world's searching for. — Web Search Interest: beach, snow. United States, 2004 - present.

Discussion: The Official Google Blog and 10,000 Words

Jim Romenesko:

Hamilton Nolan: 'I feel like I'm obliged to speak the unvarnished (and sometimes mean) truth' — I recently saw a Globe and Mail interview with David Carr in which he mentioned Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan and how “he will just step up and fill somebody with ack ack.” (Bill Keller the target?)

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

After Seventeen Years at EW, Dave Karger Moves Over to Fandango — When Geoff Boucher clocks in next Monday for his first day as senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, another long-time EW staffer will be settling in at their own nearby new place of employ.