Mediagazer: Jimmy Savile: BBC scrapped investigation after Newsnight came ‘under pressure’ from senior managers (Telegraph)

7:20 AM ET, October 22, 2012

Top News:

Newsnight editor steps aside as BBC faces ‘worst crisis for 50 years’ over Savile documentary — Newsnight editor Peter Rippon has stepped aside “with immediate effect” while the BBC reviews its response to the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, the corporation said today.

Discussion: Guardian and BBC

Telegraph:

Jimmy Savile: BBC scrapped investigation after Newsnight came ‘under pressure’ from senior managers — The BBC scrapped its investigation into whether Jimmy Savile was a paedophile after Newsnight came “under pressure” from senior managers, a documentary will claim on Monday evening.

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Jim Romenesko:

New York Times staffers mull byline strike — A Sunday dispatch from the Newspaper Guild of New York says hundreds of New York Times staffers have in recent days “quietly signed pledges to withhold their bylines, photo credits, and producing credits” and “have also pledged to work strictly to the terms of the contract.”

Discussion: New York Magazine

Reuters:

Analysis: Yahoo CEO's comeback plan hones in on technology, not media — (Reuters) - Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint at Google Inc, has spent her first months as Yahoo Inc CEO quietly moving the Internet pioneer back to its roots in technology.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Weather Channel's Parent Company Is Renamed — In a move it compared to Apple Computer's shedding of the word computer, the Weather Channel Companies has dropped “channel” from its name. — It's not ridding itself of the actual Weather Channel, a staple of cable lineups across the country.

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Noreen Malone / The New Republic:

The Critic Wall Street Loves to Lunch With — Felix Salmon's foppish war on the banks. — THERE AREN'T MANY people who can get the Treasury secretary on the phone—and fewer still who can get away with yelling at him on the call. His wife, sure. Probably the president.

Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:

Dish Networks Pays $700M, Settles Dispute with AMC and Cablevison — Cablevision and AMC Networks announced Sunday that they have settle their legal dispute with Dish Networks over Voom HD, an indirect subsidiary of AMC Networks. — The companies have also agreed on a long-term agreement …

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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:

Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia did not have an Arab Spring. But it has had a revolution of sorts. — Open criticism of this country's royal family, once unheard-of, has become commonplace in recent months.

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Connecting the Dots in Libya — WHEN I wrote on my blog recently about The Times's decision not to give front-page coverage to a Congressional hearing on the consulate attack in Libya, hundreds of e-mails and comments poured in. — While it is hard to summarize that much correspondence …

Discussion: @mlcalderone and @jayrosen_nyu

Charles Graeber / Wired:

Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega! — They've been indicted by the U.S. government for conspiracy and briefly thrown in jail, but Kim Dotcom and his partners in the digital storage locker Megaupload have no intention of quitting the online marketplace. — Instead the co-defendants plan …

Discussion: Forbes and The Verge

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

For Whom The Bell Tolls? It Tolls For TV... A few months ago, I suggested that the TV industry might be starting to collapse. — My argument was based on the observation that television viewing behavior had begun to change radically, even as television industry revenues and profits continued to go up, up, up.

Elizabeth Flock / US News:

Voice of America, 70 Years Later, Faces Bureaucratic Troubles — But some see a necessity and a vision for the U.S. broadcaster — When prominent Burmese dissident-turned-opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi visited Washington last month, she made a stop at a nondescript WWII-era government building …

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

Rupert Murdoch, other potential buyers eye L.A. Times — News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch is said to be in early talks to buy the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune from Tribune Co. — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch intends to stay in the business that forms the bedrock of his empire …

Discussion: @edmundlee, New York Magazine, @edmundlee and Reuters