Mediagazer: Why The Internet Cool Kids Think Gawker Outing Reddit's Violentacrez Is The ‘Best Story About The Web’ This Year (Kashmir Hill/Forbes)

3:15 AM ET, October 16, 2012

Top News:

Brooks severance deal worth ‘about £7m’ — Payoff package for the former News International executive is far in excess of the £1.7m speculated on after her departure — Rebekah Brooks received a payoff worth about £7m after resigning as chief executive of News International …

Discussion: Financial Times, Business Insider and Deadline.com

The Independent:

Cameron, Brooks and the emails kept from Leveson — Prime Minister took legal advice on withholding dozens of ‘embarrassing’ messages from judicial inquiry — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES

Discussion: Financial Times and The Daily Beast

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Moderator Candy Crowley's follow-up questions at Tuesday's debate are already upsetting both campaigns — The Obama and Romney campaigns signed an agreement that at Tuesday's debate, “The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience …

Discussion: Forbes, The Page, The Huffington Post, Politico, USA Today, Politico, Time and The Huffington Post

Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:

Who Controls the Presidential Debates? Journalists or the Campaigns? — CNN's Candy Crowley, the moderator of the second presidential debate, which is structured like a “town-hall” meeting, has been saying publicly that she is looking forward to asking follow-ups of the candidates …

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Why The Internet Cool Kids Think Gawker Outing Reddit's Violentacrez Is The ‘Best Story About The Web’ This Year — On Friday, Gawker published a piece that the Internet Cool Kids had been waiting for. In it, Adrian Chen unmasked one of the volunteer moderators of Reddit, a site for sharing news …

Discussion: Techdirt, Daily Dot, Guardian and Betabeat

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Circa wants to rethink the way we consume the news on a sub-atomic level — Ben Huh may be the CEO of the humor-oriented Cheezburger Network, a business built on funny cat pictures and other web ephemera, but for more than a year now he has been thinking night and day about the future of the news industry …

Discussion: Circa Blog, GeekWire, @benpopper, The Verge, Betabeat, @craigsilverman, The Next Web, @jeffjarvis and @rafat

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles — what's wrong and right about that — There's a lot to like and a lot to hate about Circa, the new company by Cheezburger Network and reality TV star Ben Huh and SocialThing and SimpleGeo co-founder Matt Galligan. It launches today and is on “a mission to fix journalism.”

Discussion: DigidaveDigidave, App Advice, TechCrunch and The FJP

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Reuters' Early Report Of Protesters At Libya Attack Raises Questions — NEW YORK — On Sept. 12, Reuters reported that there were protesters present when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked and described the assailants as “part of a mob blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad.”

Discussion: FP Passport and Mother Jones

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Why The New York Times, the Financial Times and El País are eyeing Latin America — The New York Times is planning to launch an online Portuguese-language edition for Brazil in 2013, its parent company announced. Once it goes live, the site will publish 30 to 40 articles a day …

Discussion: Capital New York, The New York Times Company, paidContent and Mashable!

Agence France Presse:
NY Times to launch Portuguese news site for Brazil

Discussion: Media Decoder

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers — The major music labels have a clear stance on online piracy, as the following quote from the RIAA illustrates. — “While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally …

Discussion: BGR and The Next Web

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Microsoft To Compete Against Spotify With Xbox Music, Available Soon On Xbox, Windows 8, And Windows Phone Devices — Microsoft will soon become the next player to enter the streaming music business, with a service that will see it competing against the likes of Spotify and Rdio.

Discussion: idigitaltimes.com, Kindle Review, Wired, AllThingsD, GigaOM, CNET, Pocket-lint and 9to5Mac

Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Can a new CEO save CNN? — CNN, the news network that nobody likes, or watches or can fix, is looking for a new CEO. Even if you actually believed you could fix it, it's far from clear that anybody would want you to. Although the network is an embarrassment to everybody who works there …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post and TVNewser

Guardian:

Jimmy Savile scandal: BBC director general to appear in front of MPs — George Entwistle is expected to answer questions in front of a House of Commons committee next week — The BBC director general is expected to appear to take questions from MPs next week on the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal …

Discussion: Telegraph

Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Savile questioned by BBC boss 20 years ago

Discussion: Capital New York

Martin Beckford / Telegraph: Jimmy Savile: Former BBC Trust chairman criticises ‘hysteria’

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

What Eight Million Livestreams Really Means — That crazy leap that Felix Baumgartner made was astonishing. — And if you're interested in the future of Web video, YouTube's ability to serve up eight million livestreams at the same time is a really big deal, too.

Discussion: Daily Dot, Poynter, CNET and Mashable!