Mediagazer: Al-Jazeera's political independence questioned amid Qatar intervention (Dan Sabbagh/Guardian)

Tired Cries of Bias Don't Help Romney — In the last few days, conservatives have become agitated about Mitt Romney's drop-off in the polls. So did they think the stumble was because of the ill-fated “47 percent” slip of the lip, or the hasty effort to gain a political edge after the death …

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Paul Ryan breaks ‘no whining rule’ — On Wednesday, Mitt Romney told CBS News that he doesn't worry about media bias, signalling that the campaign was abandoning a blame-the-media strategy it had courted a week earlier. The very same day, senior Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie told Fox & Friends …

Discussion: Politico

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Al-Jazeera's political independence questioned amid Qatar intervention — Al-Jazeera's editorial independence has been called into question after its director of news stepped in to ensure a speech made by Qatar's emir to the UN led its English channel's coverage of the debate on Syrian intervention.

Discussion: @syrianews and @pragmatic_d

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

Counter-terrorism officer appears in court over ‘leaks to News of the World’ — One of Scotland Yard's most senior counter-terrorism officers appeared in court charged with misconduct in public office after allegedly offering to provide information to the News of the World.

Discussion: Guardian

Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:

Four key trends changing digital journalism and society — It's not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners. They all are part of a distributed civic media community that works on open source code, collects and improves data, and collaborates across media organizations.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps — Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry. The last fifteen years have shown how hard it is to get consumers to pay for content on websites or pay attention to ads there. In the app environment, all that was going to be different.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, eMedia Vitals, Journalism.org, Nieman Journalism Lab, MediaPost, Poynter, Poynter and PC Magazine

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Taking It One Day at a Time at The Daily — Why Rupert Murdoch's Audacious iPad Newspaper Can't Wait for the Future to Come — “After the election” became a running joke in the newsroom at The Daily this summer when rumors erupted that News Corp.'s grand iPad experiment …

Guy Lucas / Newsroom With A View:

The paywall paradox — In his address to the Arizona Newspapers Association, Steve Buttry summed up the argument against newspaper websites setting paywalls or pay meters (and it is just newspapers; you never hear of TV stations debating whether to charge for access to their sites).

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @stevebuttry and The Buttry Diary

Dave Thier / New York Times:

For New Orleans, a Daily That's No Longer Daily — NEW ORLEANS — On Saturday night at the Howlin' Wolf club in downtown New Orleans, they gathered to say goodbye. There were newspaper hats, brass instruments, toasts, rants, old friends who had not seen one another in years and recent co-workers …

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

Nikki Finke's Deadline calls a time out — Amid talk that the ownership of Deadline.com is on the verge of buying Variety, Nikki Finke announced on Deadline.com that her staff will be too busy next week on some unstated business to post breaking news nuggets.

Discussion: Deadline.com and FishbowlLA

Nathalie Thomas / Telegraph:

News Corp beefs up compliance teams — News Corporation has hired five senior compliance officials, including a director from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as part of its efforts to avoid a repeat of the phone-hacking scandal. — News International executives in the UK dealt …

Discussion: Guardian

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Pricing 201 — Don't call it a price increase. Call it a re-valuation of the customer proposition. — Really. — Now, waist-deep into the digital circulation revenue revolution, we're adding fact to hunch, data to intuition. — Take The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., and its spring paywall launch.