Mediagazer: Can NowThis News Crack Mobile Video? (Josh Sternberg/Digiday)

3:10 PM ET, November 11, 2012

Top News:

George Entwistle / BBC:

Statement from George Entwistle — In the light of the fact that the Director-General is also the Editor-in-Chief and ultimately responsible for all content; and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2nd November …

Emily Bell / CJR:

What's happening at the BBC — The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence — “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — A very British crisis needs a very British epigraph.

Discussion: Guardian, Daily Mail, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @moorehn and Reuters

BBC:

George Entwistle resigns as BBC director general — George Entwistle made his statement outside New Broadcasting House — The BBC's director general, George Entwistle, has resigned in the wake of the Newsnight child abuse broadcast. — In a statement given outside New Broadcasting House …

Discussion: Telegraph, TVNewser, Poynter, The Next Web, Mediaite and themediablog.typepad.com

Reuters:

BBC must reform or die, says Trust chairman — (Reuters) - BBC director general George Entwistle resigned just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a program denounced by its chairman as shoddy journalism. — The BBC, reeling from revelations …

John Ware / Guardian:

A personal tragedy, and a hammer blow for an honest institution — Paralysis at the top left the BBC's Newsnight exposed. Will this be rectified following Entwistle's departure? — The resignation of George Entwistle as the BBC's director general is both a personal tragedy and a hammer-blow for the BBC.

Discussion: Telegraph, Charlie Beckett, Business Insider, BBC and Digital Spy

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Newsnight insiders fear it will not survive scandal — BBC2 current affairs programme under threat after false claims of child abuse by senior Tory — When George Entwistle was announcing his resignation from the BBC on Saturday night, Newsnight staffers past and present were gathered …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
BBC in crisis as George Entwistle resigns

Discussion: Daily Express, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Telegraph and BBC

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race — As Americans' modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seems to be changing as well. In last Tuesday's presidential election, a number of polling firms that conduct their surveys online had strong results.

Discussion: Pressing Issues

Spencer Ackerman / Wired:

How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus — Gen. David Petraeus gives the thumbs up with his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony. Photo: DOD — When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect.

Discussion: Guardian, @dangillmor, Pressing Issues, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed and Mother Jones

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Can NowThis News Crack Mobile Video? — News clearly needs a healthy dose of reinvention. NowThis News is an ambitious attempt to do just that with news video made for a mobile world. — NowThis, founded by former Huffington Post execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau and backed by $5 million …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com, CJR and PSFK

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

News App Pulse Bets Big on Sponsored Content and Bite-Size Content Subscriptions — Brings in More Than $300,000 a Month Off Inbound Interest — They both are news-reading apps, they both claim 20 million users, and they're both less than three years old.

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Engadget and TUAW, Thanks:@steverubel

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

For New York Times' Sake, Mark Thompson Should Step Aside — Scandals are the order of the day, from David Petraeus' emergency resignation this week to the implosion of BBC leadership, as its new Director-General George Entwistle announces his own hurried departure today.

Discussion: The Independent, Guardian, The Sun, WorldViews and New York Magazine

Jessica Bruder / Christian Science Monitor:

Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? — The death of newspapers - by cutbacks, outright disappearance, or morphing into lean websites - means a reduction of watchdog reporting and less local information. Some say it has caused a crop in civic participation. Is it a blow to good citizenship?