Mediagazer: The institutional paranoia of the BBC and its unsure future (Patrick Smith/TheMediaBriefing)

10:55 PM ET, November 12, 2012

Top News:

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

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

The institutional paranoia of the BBC and its unsure future — In the midst of a BBC crisis, I remember this exchange: “Just give me the facts - how bad is it for us?” asked the deputy director general from the back of his chauffeur-driven car. “Do we need to get on the front foot or is this just another Daily Mail hatchet job?

Discussion: themediablog.typepad.com and Charlie Beckett

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

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

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

Discussion: Guardian

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

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

Discussion: Crikey, Guardian and The Daily Beast

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Mark Thompson, the BBC Scandal and the Future of The New York Times

Discussion: Guardian, mediabistro.com, AdAge, Broadcasting & Cable and Telegraph

Telegraph: Newsnight report: basic journalistic checks missing

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

Discussion: Washington Post and GigaOM

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 …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Jezebel, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post and Talking Biz News

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’

Discussion: The Wrap, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, UK News and Opinion, BBC, BBC, Sky News, Guardian, Digital Spy, Guardian, Deadline.com and CJR

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

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

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Moves to Shake Up ‘Today’ Leadership — NBC is completing a plan to change the leadership at the “Today” show, the longtime first-place morning show that slid to second place this year during the controversial removal of Ann Curry. — Alexandra Wallace, a senior vice president of NBC News …

Discussion: TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable

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:

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 Broadcasting & Cable

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, Poynter, @mlcalderone, Capital New York, City Desk, Politico and BuzzFeed

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

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

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

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Wikipedia's for-profit cousin Wikia unveils its new Lightbox video player and a slew of syndication deals — One week after Wikipedia launched its HTML5 video player, its for-profit counterpart Wikia has released its very own new multimedia streaming player, and a slew of content syndication deals.

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, VatorNews and Yahoo! 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: