Mediagazer: Defamation, Italian Style (Marie-Andree Weiss/Citizen Media Law …)

1:45 AM ET, October 3, 2012

Top News:

Peter Rippon / BBC:

Newsnight and Jimmy Savile — There has been a lot written about why I took the decision not to run a story into allegations of sex abuse by the former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile. It has been suggested I was ordered to do it by my bosses as part of a BBC cover-up.

Discussion: Digital Spy, Guardian and BBC

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Jimmy Savile: BBC denies cover-up

Discussion: @fleetstreetfox, @fleetstreetfox, @fleetstreetfox, @mediaguardian, @joshhalliday and @fleetstreetfox

Guardian: Jimmy Savile: Newsnight editor blocked airing of sexual assault story

Press Association:
Late BBC broadcaster accused of sex abuse

Discussion: Telegraph and Guardian

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Burlington Free Press Loses Ground in Vermont — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermonters may be quick to boast about their locally sourced foods, their ability to tolerate bitter winters and their celebrated entrepreneurs like Ben & Jerry's and Burton Snowboards. But lately, they have not extended that praise to their newspaper.

Discussion: AAN and NetNewsCheck Latest

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Voters say journalists are giving Romney's ‘47 percent’ comments too much coverage — There's been too much coverage of Mitt Romney's comments about the “47 percent,” says a plurality polled by Pew. … As best I can tell, the press has largely moved on to the meta-narrative of Romney's remarks …

Discussion: Pew Research Center, Washington Post, CNN and Mother Jones

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL Finally Lands on YouTube — Want to be big in online video? It helps if people can see your stuff on the world's biggest video site. — So that's what Tim Armstrong is going to do: After years of keeping its clips off YouTube, AOL is finally going to start distributing its video on Google's site, via 22 branded “channels.”

Discussion: VentureBeat, Advanced Television, Radio & Television …, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, WebProNews and NYConvergence.com

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Talking Points Memo launches membership-only program, wades into longform — Encouraging mass readership within a niche coverage area is at the heart of Talking Points Memo's ad-supported business model. — So when founding publisher/editor Josh Marshall began to assess the best ways …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Capital New York

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

BBC working on music equivalent of iPlayer — The BBC is working on a music equivalent of its iPlayer catch-up service, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. — Lana Del Rey has shot to fame through music streaming services such as Spotify — The service, dubbed Playlister …

Discussion: Engadget and NME

Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:

M-GO Signs Content Deals With DreamWorks Animation, Relativity — Multiscreen app service M-GO Entertainment has signed content licensing deals with DreamWorks Animation and Relativity Media, the company announced Tuesday at TheGrill, TheWrap's annual conference.

Discussion: Speakeasy, Bloomberg, PR Newswire and Home Media Magazine

Ozge Ozbilgin / Reuters:

YouTube opens Turkish site, giving government more control — (Reuters) - Turkey said on Tuesday it had won a long-running battle to persuade the video-sharing website YouTube to operate under a Turkish web domain, giving Ankara a tighter rein over the site's content and requiring the firm to pay Turkish taxes.

Discussion: CNET and paidContent

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

TV studios too strong for Apple disruption — Syndication biz projected to reach $20 billion — The economics of Hollywood's TV studios have been strengthened so much by new windows that even Apple won't be able to disrupt their business, according to a new research report.

Ben Kersey / The Verge:

Live Twitter stream found in print issue of Entertainment Weekly — The October 5th print issue of Entertainment Weekly contains an insert page with a small LCD designed to display live tweets as well as videos. Around 1,000 copies of the issue distributed in New York and Los Angeles …

Discussion: Mashable!

Marie-Andree Weiss / Citizen Media Law Project:

Defamation, Italian Style — Being a journalist in Italy may have occupational hazards, but having to go to prison in your own country because of an article you wrote should not be one of them. However, Italy, a founding Member of both the Council of Europe and the European Union …

Bradley Johnson / AdAge:

Internet-Media Employment Fuels Digital Job Growth — When it comes to jobs, internet-media businesses are the new mainstream media. Internet media this year became the media industry's second-largest employment sector, according to Ad Age DataCenter's analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, ZDNet and Noted

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

New York Times launches experimental HTML5 web app for iPad — The New York Times today announced it is launching a new HTML5 based web app accessible to iPad users at app.nytimes.com. While called an “experimental web app” in the press release, the move mirrors a switch by other publications …