Mediagazer: A Counterculture Totem to Return as a Leaner Magazine (Ben Sisario/Media Decoder)

6:55 PM ET, November 15, 2012

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video — And Puts It Back Up Again — Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as a weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. — The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message to push in 2012 …

Discussion: Daily Dot, Telegraph, SocialTimes, mediabistro.com, GigaOM, Betabeat, Red Alert Politics, FP Passport, Mother Jones, BAGnewsNotes, Forbes, Poynter, IDF Blog, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Max Fisher / Washington Post:

The story behind the photo: Journalist's 11-month-old son killed in Gaza strikes — BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi carries his son's body at a Gaza hospital. (Associated Press) — The front page photo on Thursday's Washington Post tells, in a single frame, a very personal story …

Discussion: Telegraph, Gawker and The Huffington Post

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict — After announcing their intention to attack Hamas on Twitter, the Israeli Defense Force began military operations in Gaza yesterday. The Alqassam Brigades, Hamas's military arm, also has a Twitter account …

Discussion: Wired, Capital New York, WorldViews and The Verge

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
The Thin Red Terms Of Service

Discussion: The Week

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
In Israeli Attack on Hamas: Shock, Awe and Social Media

Discussion: The Wrap, Foreign Policy, GigaOM, The Daily Beast, Wired, KDVR.com, The Hill, Softpedia News, The Stream and BuzzFeed

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Anonymous Hackers Hit Israeli Sites In Retaliation For Gaza Attacks

Discussion: CNN, NYT Bits and The Wall Blog

Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:

BBC Faces Probe Over Abuse Scandal — LONDON—Britain's communications regulator is investigating the British Broadcasting Corp. for a recent broadcast of its current affairs program “Newsnight” that improperly accused a former Conservative Party official of child sex abuse …

Discussion: @skynewsbreak, Press Gazette, NetNewsCheck Latest, Media Decoder and New York Times

Tara Conlan / Guardian: BBC rules out costly search for George Entwistle replacement

Sky News:
Lord McAlpine And BBC Reach Settlement

Discussion: Poynter

Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
Lord McAlpine to sue Twitter users who called him a paedophile as BBC agrees taxpayer-funded payout for Newsnight slur

Discussion: @lisaocarroll and @iankatz1000

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Guy Fieri Responds to Pete Wells: ‘He Had an Agenda’ — Guy Fieri got his restaurant blasted by Pete Wells in The New York Times, so this morning he went on the Today show to defend his food and American Bar and Grill. Fieri said that Wells' review was over the top, and that it seemed …

Discussion: AdAge, Gawker, Eater National, TVNewser and 10,000 Words

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

New York Times hosts ad client dinner at Guy Fieri restaurant it panned earlier in the day — Guy Fieri has responded to Pete Wells' scathing New York Times review of his Times Square restaurant. Fieri told the “Today” show's Savannah Guthrie that he thought the review was “ridiculous” and “overboard.”

Discussion: Gawker, The Braiser, Every Day Forever, Guardian, Speakeasy, Bites and Eater National

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Marcus Brauchli's impossible task — The Post's ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom — I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry more than Marcus Brauchli's. — Brauchli got the top job …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Capital New York and Media Decoder

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Brauchli's wife: Washington Post has become 'place where you can't speak truth to power' — Former Los Angeles Times reporter Maggie Farley is married to outgoing Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli. In a public posting on Facebook Tuesday evening, she wrote:

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and City Desk

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Exclusive: Spotify to begin rolling out browser-based music app in beta today — Spotify today plans to begin the roll out of its first ever browser-based music player, The Verge has learned from sources close to the company. From the looks of it, the web player looks a lot …

Discussion: Betabeat, Features and Columns, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, WebProNews, SocialTimes, Gizmodo and hypebot

Ben Rooney / Wall Street Journal Europe: Spotify Valued at $3 Billion, but Where is the Missing Billion?

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Poised to Name Media Mogul Peter Chernin to Board of Directors — Twitter is poised to announce the appointment of Hollywood media exec Peter Chernin to the company's board of directors, according to sources familiar with the situation. — As AllThingsD has previously reported …

Discussion: CNET

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Viacom Profit Increases, but Movie Division Hurts Revenues — Viacom's net income for its fiscal fourth quarter increased by 12 percent, while its revenue fell 17 percent as a result of a decline in domestic advertising revenue and a corporate strategy to release a diminished slate of movies through its Paramount Pictures studio.

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, Radio & Television … and Hollywood Reporter

Jennifer Saba / Reuters: Viacom posts higher profit; CEO says MTV is not broken

Jim Romenesko:

How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed - then failed to profit from its sale — When Mediabistro was sold in 2007, I told some people that I thought Elizabeth Spiers deserved at least a few of the millions that Laurel Touby took to the bank. — Touby (left) and Spiers

Discussion: The Awl

Penelope Green / New York Times:
The Loft That Mediabistro Built

Discussion: Gawker, @real_kaplan, @laureltouby and @laureltouby

Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:

Variety lays off staff, plans to reduce frequency of publication — Variety has laid off nearly 20 staffers and will cut back on its print frequency. (Variety) — The new owner of Variety is laying off nearly 20 employees at the Hollywood trade paper while preparing to cut back on the number of times it prints each week.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

A Counterculture Totem to Return as a Leaner Magazine — From 2002 to 2008, Arthur was music's version of a literary-minded “little magazine.” Distributed free in record stores and coffee shops, it celebrated underground culture of all kinds and attracted writers like Alan Moore ("Watchmen" …

Discussion: The Awl and Arthur Magazine

Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:

Audit Bureau of Circulations changes name after 98 years to AAM in the US — The Audit Bureau of Circulations in the US has become the first member of IFABC to change its name in an attempt to better reflect the changes sweeping across the publishing business in the digital age, opting for the Alliance for Audited Media.

Discussion: Folio, Poynter, FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Times

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Will Bourne Named New Editor-in-Chief of The Village Voice — Will Bourne has been named the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. He replaces Tony Ortega, who left the paper in September. — Bourne comes to the Voice from Inc., where he served as editor-at-large since July.

Discussion: Capital New York, New York Magazine and GalleyCat

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Election Night Was a Second Screen Extravaganza — If you are reading this there are very good odds that you spent all or part of election night online. Because, why wouldn't you? — Still, here's some data that shows how commonplace that behavior was, beyond your personal filter bubble …

Discussion: Lost Remote and Pew Research Center …