Mediagazer: What's Going to Kill the TV Business? (Derek Thompson/The Atlantic Online)

1:25 PM ET, November 9, 2012

Top News:

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Lord McAlpine given no right of reply on Newsnight film about abuse claims — Newsnight chose not to contact peer ahead of film that appears to have wrongly accused a ‘leading politician of Thatcher years’ — Newsnight chose not to contact Lord McAlpine ahead of broadcasting a film …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Savile scandal has led to ‘loss of trust in BBC’ — George Entwistle says BBC has made mistakes during saga and that ‘it will take time before we can hope to regain trust’ — The BBC director general George Entwistle has acknowledged that the corporation has lost the trust of licence fee payers …

Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette:

Guardian journalists opt for strike vote as showdown looms over compulsory redundancies — Guardian journalists yesterday voted to hold a strike ballot in response to management proposals to cut up to 100 editorial jobs. — The decision was taken at a packed meeting of the Guardian News …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

New York Times to welcome new CEO Monday — Incoming CEO Mark Thompson is scheduled to start work on Monday. Thompson “missed opportunities” to address a sex abuse scandal while he was director general of the BBC, the paper has reported. Joe Hagan has written “one senior executive I spoke …

Discussion: New York Post

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Election night traffic, trends and strategies from The New York Times, CNN, BuzzFeed, and more — Video, data, and mobile news were the big themes for election night coverage in 2012. Though it's no longer unusual to see a media outlet blur the lines between TV, online news …

Discussion: Poynter

Noreen Malone / The New Republic:

Megyn Kelly Can Save Fox News — Tuesday night's election results may not have been good for Republicans, but they were very good for Fox. CNN, riding a tide of normally-cable-avoidant viewers, won the evening, technically, but Fox came in a close ratings second and won YouTube—thanks …

Discussion: Poynter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Plain Dealer journalists plan pre-emptive campaign against reduced print, staff cuts — Advance Publications hasn't said whether it intends to reduce the publication schedule or staff at The Plain Dealer, but journalists at the Cleveland paper want to get ahead of any decision their owners might make.

Discussion: WKYC-TV

Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWrite:

Toward A Digital Code Of Ethics For Journalists & Researchers — The rise of the Internet has created a real need to define a code of digital ethics and privacy. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I attended the second annual International Digital Ethics Symposium last week.

Discussion: @mattbuchanan, Thanks:@michaelroston

Economist:

Newspapers versus Google: Taxing times — IN 2009 Rupert Murdoch called Google and other search engines “content kleptomaniacs”. Now cash-strapped newspapers want to put legal pressure on what they see as parasitical news aggregators. In Germany politicians are considering a bill …

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild, The Irish Times and Media Policy

AAN:

Voice Media Group Settles Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against Yelp — Voice Media Group has settled its trademark infringement lawsuit against Yelp. — The suit, filed in Arizona on October 25, accused Yelp of a trademark infringement after Yelp's use of the federally registered trademarks …

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

What's Going to Kill the TV Business? — Two things: The rising cost of making television and enough cord-cutters abandoning the cable bundle to blow up the business model. The first trend is happening. The second one isn't. — Reuters — The first thing to ask when somebody predicts …

Jonathan Russell / Telegraph:

News International could face charges over bribery allegations — News International, the owner of The Sun and The Times newspapers, could face corporate corruption charges over alleged bribery of public officials, it has emerged. — Police working on Operation Elveden have been investigating allegations …

Agence France Presse:

US sanctions Iran over Internet, media censorship — WASHINGTON — Washington unveiled sanctions Thursday against top Iranians and national bodies, including the communications minister and the culture ministry, hitting back for media and Internet censorship.

Discussion: ZDNet, Ars Technica and Media News

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:

No More Media ‘Disruption,’ Just Some Slow-Melting Icebergs — “Be disruptive” is a continued cry for many media companies, both traditional and new. CBS might be taking much of this to heart. Years after major TV-based media companies committed to partnering and selling programming …

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Jury says journalist arrested while videotaping police is not guilty — Miami man plans to sue department over unauthorized deletion of his footage. — A jury acquitted a Florida photojournalist who was arrested on January 31 while documenting the eviction of Occupy Miami protesters.

Discussion: Poynter, PINAC, Techdirt, @carlosmiller, @jcstearns and Riptide 2.0

New York Business Journal:

News Corp. buys out ESPN Star Sports venture — News Corp. has completed the purchase of ESPN Star Sports, a 50-50- venture it had with ESPN Inc. — Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. — The companies on June 6 announced their agreement on the acquisition, made through a News Corp. subsidiary.

Discussion: MediaNama