Mediagazer: Journalism is struggling in the UK but it's on the ropes in Australia too (Henry Belot/Wannabe Hacks)

6:40 AM ET, September 30, 2012

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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BusinessWeek:

The New Al Jazeera: More ESPN, Less CNN — Remember Al Jazeera, the network that was supposed to be an Arab CNN, offering a counterweight to Western cable news? That plan appears to have been scaled back as the Qatari government-controlled network makes deep cuts in its English-language …

Media Matters for America:

STUDY: TV News Covered Paul Ryan's Workout 3x More Than Record Arctic Sea Ice Loss — Arctic sea ice is declining much faster than scientists expected, which has important implications for the rate and impacts of climate change. But the major TV news outlets have largely ignored …

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 …

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Greg Mitchell / The Nation:

Yes, Newspaper Endorsements for President Do Matter, and We'll Be Charting Them — This may come as a shock to most of you, but: newspaper endorsements in the race for the White House do seem to matter (at least a little). It's become fashionable to argue otherwise, and with good reason.

Per Nyberg / CNN:

Danish magazine denies publishing fresh images of Catherine — London (CNN) — A gossip magazine in Denmark on Saturday dismissed reports it had published new, even more revealing images of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, as entirely false. — The publication of topless photographs of Catherine …

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Henry Belot / Wannabe Hacks:

Journalism is struggling in the UK but it's on the ropes in Australia too — Building a career in journalism has always been difficult, but it appears that retaining one has become just as challenging. Especially in Australia. — Riding on the back of a major resources boom …

Doha Centre for Media Freedom:

Revolutionary press blooms underground in Syria — Amid unrest and shelling, Syrian press has seen a new growth due to “independent newspapers” — In a country suffocated for decades by state censorship and media control, dozens of independent grassroots newspapers and websites …

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 …

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Pottstown Mercury's wanted-poster-style Pinboard is resulting in arrests — We all want our journalism to have impact. Well, here's impact for you: the Wanted by Police Pinboard launched by the Pottstown Mercury's Brandie Kessler is resulting in arrests. — In a recent Mercury story …

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