Mediagazer: BBC in turmoil as Newsnight's Tory abuse story falls apart (Dan Sabbagh/Guardian)

7:50 PM ET, November 9, 2012

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

BBC in turmoil as Newsnight's Tory abuse story falls apart — Star witness admits he had wrongly accused Lord McAlpine - whom BBC had chosen not to contact - of abuse — Newsnight's accusations that a Tory peer had been involved in child abuse have unravelled after its star witness admitted …

Discussion: BBC, Telegraph and The Independent

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Savile scandal has led to ‘loss of trust in BBC’

Discussion: Business Insider

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 …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post Editor, Rumored To Be Leaving — NEW YORK — On Friday night, the Washington Post's executive editor will be throwing a post-election party at his house for staffers involved in the paper's political coverage. Some wonder, though, if the event could also be an early going-away party.

Liau Yun Qing / ZDNet:

Amazon reportedly bringing Kindle to China — Summary: U.S. e-commerce giant has Chinese government's approval to sell Kindle devices in China, and is believed to have plans to bring the devices to the country as early as this month. — Liau Yun Qing — Users in China may finally be able …

Discussion: PC Magazine

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership Because Ads Are “One Of The Reasons Digg Failed” — “We could theoretically load up our pages with ads and probably make enough to cover our costs. However, that would significantly degrade the experience of using the site,” …

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat and Betabeat

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, NetNewsCheck Latest and Capital New York

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

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: Forbes and @mattbuchanan, Thanks:@michaelroston

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

Gawker Paid $1,000 for Jared Loughner's E-mails — A day after Arizona shooter Jared Loughner was sentenced to life in prison and confronted by his victims, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, Gawker has published excerpts of the killer's dream journal, obtained from his hacked Gmail account.

Discussion: Gawker and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jim Romenesko:

Seattle Times political ads 'didn't appear to move the dial at all' — The Seattle Times explained last month that it was launching a $75,000 ad effort on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna to prove that “in-paper advertising is an effective means for campaigns to deliver their messages to voters.”

Bloomberg:

Dish Seen in DirecTV's Orbit as Growth Stalls, Content Costs Rise — Combining Could Provide Leverage Against TV Networks' Demands — Stagnating growth and rising content costs are increasing the pressure on Dish Network, the satellite provider in TV networks' crosshairs over its ad-skipping service …

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: The Week

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Online viewers start leaving if video doesn't play in 2 seconds, says study — As revenues decline for traditional forms of online advertising, video is emerging as a bright spot for many media companies. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.

Digital Book World:

Newsweek/Daily Beast Partners With Vook on Ebook Program — Newsweek/Daily Beast will partner with ebook production vendor and publisher Vook on producing ebooks. — The partnership officially kicks off tomorrow with the publication of Why Romney Lost: And What the GOP …

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

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Call for seven-day window to count ratings grows louder — ABC's “Modern Family.” — If you watch an episode of ABC's “Modern Family” within three days of recording it on your digital video recorder, Madison Avenue loves you. — But if you watch it four days after you recorded it, you're worthless in the eyes of advertisers.