Mediagazer: Newsnight: executives could face disciplinary action (Guardian)

7:20 PM ET, November 12, 2012

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Newsnight: executives could face disciplinary action — A BBC internal inquiry has concluded that there had been ‘unacceptable’ editorial failings involved in the broadcast — Two BBC executives involved with the Newsnight broadcast that wrongly linked a “senior Conservative” …

Discussion: National Updates

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Mark Thompson, the BBC Scandal and the Future of The New York Times — Incoming New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson has repeatedly insisted he didn't know the details of a massive child abuse scandal brewing at his previous employer, the BBC, until it was too late, and no one has produced a smoking gun to prove otherwise.

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
As Mark Thompson Starts New Job, the BBC's Implosion Is Felt in New York

Discussion: New York Times, National Updates, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Times Company chairman welcomes Mark Thompson as BBC scandal widens

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
The New York Times and the Thompson Effect: Blow Over or Blowback?

Discussion: Guardian

Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline.com:
NYT Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Welcomes Former BBC Chief Mark Thompson As New CEO

Discussion: Washington Post and GigaOM

David Leigh / Guardian: Investigative journalism must live on despite the Newsnight crisis

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: BBC trustees keen to offer director general job to outsider

Telegraph: Newsnight report: basic journalistic checks missing

Hélène Mulholland / Guardian:
George Entwistle's BBC payoff is tough to justify, says government

Discussion: Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day and Digital Spy

Aja Romano / Daily Dot:

Businessweek ranks schools on girls' hotness — Why did Businessweek think it was a good idea to poll its users about which college campuses have the hottest female students? — Easy: It has done it before and no one noticed. — This year, however, coming just after an election season full …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Businessweek: Polls of student attractiveness were “in poor taste”

Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

BBC turmoil worsens as Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell hire lawyers to deny they willingly ‘stepped aside’ — The BBC's turmoil worsened yesterday as two senior executives hired lawyers to refute a statement that they had decided to step aside from their jobs.

BBC:
BBC head of news ‘steps aside’

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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Smearing an innocent man's name is the real tragedy here

Discussion: Guardian

Jessica Elgot / Huffington Post UK: BBC Newsnight Crisis: Bureau Of Investigative Journalism Editor Iain Overton Quits

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

The Anti-Fox Gains Ground — On Tuesday night, with a minute to go until the polls closed in the battleground state of Virginia, the MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews received word through their earpieces that the state was too close to call, according to the election analysts at MSNBC's parent, NBC News.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC rebuts Ezra Klein rumors

Discussion: Mediaite and New York Magazine

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Editor And Co-Author Of Petraeus Biography, Silent On Scandal — NEW YORK — Vernon Loeb, a high-ranking Washington Post editor who served as Paula Broadwell's co-author for a favorable 2012 biography of Gen. David Petraeus, would presumably know something about her reporting on the now-former CIA director.

Discussion: The Onion, The Wrap, Politico, Poynter, City Desk, @mlcalderone, Capital New York and BuzzFeed

John Koblin / Deadspin:

How ESPN Ditched Journalism And Followed Skip Bayless To The Bottom: A Tim Tebow Story — In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol:

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google makes more money from ads than print media combined — The search giant generated $10.9 billion in ad revenue in the first six months of 2012, while newspapers and magazines in the U.S. made $10.5 billion, according to Statista. — Google makes more money from advertising …

Discussion: Smarter Investing

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Google presses fair use case in book scanning appeal — Google renewed its claim that scanning 20 million books counts as a “fair use” under copyright law, and asked a federal appeals court to throw out a May ruling that let the Authors Guild go forward with a long-running class action case.

Discussion: CNET and WebProNews

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance Armstrong — In the midst of last week's earnings call, after the company had released strong results, Demand Media CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt made an unusual declaration about its once-tight affiliation with now-disgraced professional racing cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Discussion: Forbes, Yahoo! News and VatorNews

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube Preps Big New Round of Content Investments — Some Partners Will Get Another Check; Others May Quietly Go Away — Nearly a year after YouTube sprinkled $100 million across the online video ecosystem to create more than a hundred new “channels,” it's doubling down.

Discussion: paidContent, GigaOM, The Next Web, WebProNews, C21Media, AllThingsD and CNET

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

MTV Hires New President of Programming — MTV made a significant management change Monday, naming Susanne Daniels, an experienced television executive, to the position of president of programming. — Ms. Daniels, who is best known for leading the WB network during its most popular period …

Discussion: The Wrap and Cable Television News

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times union members ‘deeply divided’ on contract vote — New York Times union members are voting tomorrow on a new contract, and “the membership is deeply divided,” writes Times reporter Donald McNeil. He shares staffers' comments from his email list. — A PROBABLE YES VOTE:

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

Look Out, New York: Randi Zuckerberg Is Casting for a New Techcentric Bravo Show Set in the Big Apple — With 634,000 viewers tuning in for last week's premiere of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, newly-minted Bravo TV producer Randi Zuckerberg already has her sights set on New York.

Discussion: PC Magazine and Digits

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

The Wall Street Journal launches The Accelerators and Startup Journal to cover entrepreneurship — The Wall Street Journal is launching two new digital offerings to cover entrepreneurship and startups: The Accelerators and Startup Journal, the newspaper announced today.

Discussion: The Wrap