Mediagazer: Newsnight: how have viewing figures been affected by the BBC child abuse scandal? (Ami Sedghi/Guardian)

12:05 PM ET, November 21, 2012

Top News:

Egypt protesters firebomb Al-Jazeera Cairo office — 300 protesters storm building of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera, hit studio with firebombs; ‘They accuse our network of being biased,’ reporter says — Egyptian protesters firebombed one of the offices of satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera …

Discussion: Daily News Egypt

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Three journalists killed in Gaza — Three Palestinian journalists were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday. — The Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV reported that two of its cameramen, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, died in hospital from severe burns after a missile hit …

Discussion: Capital New York, Big News Network.com, Committee to Protect … and The Huffington Post

Telegraph:
Chilling live tweets as windows shatter around journalists in Gaza City

Discussion: Tablet Mag

Joel Gunter / @joelmgunter: 6-year-old reportedly killed in Israeli airstrike strike on building housing AFP #Gaza offices. Latest: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthori ty/ 9692735/Gaza-Israel-conflict-live.html? asdf ... #gaza #telaviv

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Gaza Media Coverage Reports Strikes In Real Time, Without Restrictions

Discussion: BuzzFeed, TVNewser, Poynter, The Nation and Capital New York

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

The Oatmeal sued over trademark by “Oatmeal Studios” — It's only been a few months since webcomic Matthew Inman, operating under the name The Oatmeal, was able to put his bizarre legal clash with competing humor website FunnyJunk to rest. Now Inman is about to be back in court.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Betabeat, WebProNews, Gizmodo UK and The Next Web

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

What really caused Brauchli-Weymouth breakup? — All accounts of the departure of Marcus Brauchli as executive editor of The Washington Post concur on one element of the drama: Brauchli fought with his boss, Publisher Katharine Weymouth, over newsroom resources.

Sara Morrison / CJR:

Martin Baron's plans for WaPo — Will he bring the Globe's double-site strategy to the Post? — Boston Globe editor Martin Baron will be The Washington Post's new executive editor come January 2013, replacing Marcus Brauchli. Three days after his first visit to WaPo's newsroom to meet …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Wall Street Journal:

News Corp., CBS in Talks Over Merging Book Businesses — News Corp ., owner of HarperCollins Publishers, has expressed interest to CBS Corp. about acquiring its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks. — The people described the talks as preliminary and cautioned that a deal isn't imminent.

Discussion: CNET, Los Angeles Times, Melville House Books, Business Insider, The New York Observer, Deadline.com, Bookseller news, paidContent and The Huffington Post

Quartz:

This is what the publishing industry will look like if the Big Six become the Big Four — News Corp.'s HarperCollins and CBS's Simon & Schuster are discussing a possible merger, according to The Wall Street Journal (paywall), in another move toward consolidation in the book publishing industry.

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Court hears plea from defendant to bar Croydon Advertiser journalist from covering case — A London magistrates court is reportedly considering submissions to ban a local journalist from covering a trial because his “heavy reporting” of the defendant's previous cases “intimidates” witness.

Gareth Davies / @gareth_davies09:

Update: I made my submission and the judge rejected the application. Im not to be excluded from the court #journalism

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Chairman Says Scandal 'Hasn't Made Things Easy' — New York Times Co. (NYT) Chairman and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the lingering scandal at the British Broadcasting Corp. has been a challenge for new Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson, who used to run the BBC.

Ami Sedghi / Guardian:

Newsnight: how have viewing figures been affected by the BBC child abuse scandal? — Newsnight hasn't been short of publicity over the last seven weeks. Most of it negative. As we all now know, the show aired on the 2nd November which wrongly linked the former Conservative party treasurer …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Another Big YouTube Bet: Time Warner Leads $40 Million Maker Studios Round — Here comes more money for YouTube videos. But these dollars don't come from YouTube: Time Warner is leading a big round of financing for Maker Studios, a start-up that specializes in creating and distributing clips for the video giant.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Guardian:

News Corp exposed to growing legal threat following charges for tabloid duo — Charges for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson raise prospect that News Corp could be prosecuted under US anti-bribery laws — The new round of criminal charges brought in the UK against former senior News International editors …

Discussion: CJR, Crikey, Media Decoder and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Former Apple exec leads $512k funding round in content monetization startup Cleeng — Cleeng, the Dutch startup focused on allowing publishers to charge for parts of their content as an alternative to a complete paywall, has announced a €400,000 ($511,600) funding round led by former Apple VP …

Discussion: paidContent

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Social Curation Site Storify Gets A Search- And Media-Centric Redesign — Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center. — The site — which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram …

Discussion: The Next Web, Poynter and Groundswell