Mediagazer: How a nerd named Nate Silver changed political reporting forever (Andrew Romano/The Daily Beast)

8:50 AM ET, November 13, 2012

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:

BBC news chief pleads with staff not to Tweet about ‘our problems’ — Fran Unsworth, the new temporary head of BBC News, has appealed to staff not to Tweet about “our problems” as she tries to sort out the mess of the Newsnight scandal. — Fran Unsworth — Referring to the …

Brendan O'Neill / Telegraph:

This isn't the first time that Angus Stickler and Newsnight have made OTT claims about secret child abusers — The hilariously misnamed Bureau of Investigative Journalism is getting a lot of much-deserved flak over the Lord McAlpine scandal: its editor, Iain Overton, has just resigned.

Discussion: Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day and National Updates

Guardian:

BBC execs could face disciplinary action over Newsnight error — 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: The Daily Beast, Deadline.com, Crikey and National Updates

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

Discussion: themediablog.typepad.com and Charlie Beckett

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

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

Vernon Loeb / Washington Post:

Petraeus ghostwriter ‘clueless’ to affair — My wife says I'm the most clueless person in America. — I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Garcia Media, LA Observed, Daily Download and Pressing Issues

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Editor And Co-Author Of Petraeus Biography, Silent On Scandal

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

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, New York Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable and The Huffington Post

Dominic Ponsford / PressGazette:

Sun investigations chief: Bribery Act has forced us to turn away whistleblowers — Brian Flynn addressing the Society of Editors conference in Belfast — Sun investigations editor Brian Flynn has warned that the fear of arrest is stopping journalists from pursuing public interest stories provided by public sector whistle-blowers.

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:

Discussion: Daily Download

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Bookboard tries Netflix-like model for kids' ebooks — Former Adobe executives Fang Chang and Nigel Pegg know that kids love iPads, and they wanted to offer them something more educational than YouTube or Angry Birds. So they are launching Bookboard, an iPad app that gives parents …

Discussion: AppNewser and Digital Book World

Jonathan Martin / Politico:

The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, TVNewser and The Huffington Post

Andrew Romano / The Daily Beast:

How a nerd named Nate Silver changed political reporting forever — How a nerd named Nate Silver changed political reporting forever. — There was a lot at stake on Nov. 6. The shape of the economy. The contours of the tax code. The survival of Obamacare.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

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, The Huffington Post, Talking Biz News and FishbowlNY

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

Discussion: Business Week

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Is more local news in Washington Post's future if Brauchli leaves? — The Washington Post's print coverage of local news is “inadequate,” Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton writes. “On a given day, Metro has five local news stories that start on the front page and two or three other short ones inside, plus some briefs,” he says.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Spotify Is Now Live In 17 Countries After Quietly Adding Ireland And Luxembourg Today — The music streaming juggernaut that is Spotify continues to gain momentum, although today was possibly more of a gentle acceleration than a turbo charge: today the company quietly launched its service live …

Discussion: The Next Web and hypebot

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

As Mark Thompson Starts New Job, the BBC's Implosion Is Felt in New York — When Mark Thompson started his job on Monday as president and chief executive of The New York Times Company, a British television network was there to capture the moment. — Responding to a shouted question …

Discussion: Associated Press, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Magazine, New York Times, National Updates, GigaOM and Deadline.com

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

Discussion: CJR and Guardian

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.

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