Mediagazer: AGM push to oust Murdoch fails (Australian Associated Press)

4:45 PM ET, October 16, 2012

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AGM push to oust Murdoch fails — Shareholders have voted down calls for change at the helm of News Corporation. A push to oust Rupert Murdoch as chairman and a campaign to change the makeup of the company's board failed despite gaining global traction amongst institutional investor groups …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Guardian, The Wrap, Bloomberg and Hollywood Reporter

The Independent:

Cameron, Brooks and the emails kept from Leveson — Private emails between David Cameron and the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have been withheld from the Leveson Inquiry after the Prime Minister sought personal legal advice, The Independent can reveal.

Discussion: @nifs, @davecameroon, Guardian and The Daily Beast

Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks's News International severance deal worth ‘about £7m’

Discussion: Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, Deadline.com, Financial Times and Business Insider

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

One month in, Margaret Sullivan talks about the changing role of New York Times Public Editor — A little over a month into her job, Margaret Sullivan has been transforming the traditional role of The New York Times public editor — by blogging almost every weekday and using social media …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal and FishbowlNY

Robert Steiner / Nieman Journalism Lab:

In Toronto, we're dumping the j-school model to produce a new kind of reporter — In its series of pieces on journalism education, the Nieman Journalism Lab raised two of three ideas that could really change the field. The first, from Len Downie: Journalism schools should work more like teaching hospitals.

Jim Romenesko:

Union: New York Times newsroom managers got raises while our wages were frozen — “The Mobilization Committee” at the New York Times tells guild members this afternoon that newsroom managers have been nicely rewarded. … Read the memo after the jump. — From:

Discussion: @penenberg

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Switching consumers to digital books is hard enough — get ready for magazines — When it comes to bringing magazines to the Kindle or iPad, some of the trickiest competitors aren't fellow digital platforms — it's the actual print products themselves. Paper magazines are still pretty good, Amazon told publishers on Monday.

Discussion: magazine.org, FishbowlLA and MinOnline

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

With Six Million Uniques, Upworthy Gets $4M From NEA to Find More Virals That Aren't Cat Videos — In March, a new start-up called Upworthy launched a site that promised to find viral content on important topics. It seemed an earnest aspiration — it's like cat videos, but serious! — that was unlikely to work.

Discussion: Betabeat and NetNewsCheck Latest

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

New York Times chief Mark Thompson leaves Jimmy Savile scandal at BBC — Mark Thompson isn't the luckiest of media CEOs. The incoming boss of the New York Times Company must not only deal with a financial squeeze and an escalating staff dispute; he has also been forced to watch out for an extraordinary storm in his rear-view mirror.

Discussion: BBC Press Office, Guardian, Telegraph and fleet street fox

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian hires first digital strategy director to grow online business — Guardian News & Media has appointed its first ever digital strategy director to knuckle down on finding workable online business models, two years after its nearest equivalent post-holder left the role.

Discussion: Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, @sifter, @emilybell and BuzzMachine

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

News Corp Partners with Bank to Sell Videogame/Entertainment Sites — As News Corp prepares to split its entertainment and publishing companies into their own entities, it's looking to trim some fat. IGN Entertainment, which is a videogame/entertainment website, is part of that process.

Discussion: AllThingsD, mediabistro.com and SocialTimes

Chris Welch / The Verge:

FCC will allow encryption of basic cable, offers measures to protect open access — The days of plugging a TV into the wall and getting cable are coming to an end. After a lengthy review process, the FCC has granted cable operators permission to encrypt their most basic cable programming.

Discussion: The Next Web, Betabeat, Boxee Blog, VentureBeat, Deadline.com, Engadget and Cable Television News

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, CNN, The Week, Poynter and Mother Jones