Mediagazer: Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it (Melinda Henneberger/Washington Post)

1:05 PM ET, November 28, 2012

Top News:

A Struggling CNN Worldwide Is Said to Be Drawn to Jeffrey Zucker — In the days to come, when Time Warner appoints a new leader of CNN Worldwide for the first time in a decade, that person will face an identity crisis unlike any other in corporate America. — Though CNN over all is on track …

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

Analysis: Why Jeff Zucker is right for CNN — Stagnant news cabler needs leader willing to take big risks — Hate Jeff Zucker if you must, but there's a lot to like about CNN hiring him. — That's not an easy thing for anyone to hear on the West Coast, where his popularity ranks somewhere between smog and wildfires.

John Burn-Murdoch / Guardian:

The Leveson inquiry in numbers — The Leveson Inquiry opened almost 18 months ago, with Lord Justice Leveson declaring “The focus of the Inquiry is the culture, practices and ethics of the press”. Tomorrow marks the publication of his report, awaited by journalists and media academics across …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: the essential guide — Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry ‘into the culture, practices and ethics of the press’ heard from 184 witnesses and accepted 42 written submissions in more than six months of hearings — 1. The issue at a glance — “Power without responsibility …

Discussion: Hit & Run

BBC:
Leveson Inquiry: Cameron receives report

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Sky News, Telegraph, London Evening Standard and The Independent

Rosa Silverman / Telegraph:
News International's Tom Mockridge warns against state regulation

Discussion: Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

You're Launching a Digital Music Start-Up? In 2012? Really? — Question to the people putting money into streaming music start-ups* in 2012: What are you thinking? — Yes, public investors value Pandora at something like $1.4 billion. And private investors think Spotify is worth at least $3 billion.

David Pakman / Disruption:

My Congressional Testimony on Internet Music Licensing — I was invited to testify in front of the IP/Competition/Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on the state of internet music licensing. I presented the following testimony today: — Testimony of David B. Pakman — Partner

Greg Sandoval / CNET: Song writers remind Pandora: 'You're profiting from our songs'

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Piers Morgan phone-hacking conversation to air on Channel 4 — Ex-Daily Mirror editor shown in documentary telling Charlotte Church of stories which came about due to mobile phones — Footage of former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan telling Charlotte Church how “a spate of stories” …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and broadcastnow.co.uk

Guido Fawkes: Piers Morgan Discussing Phone Hacking With Charlotte Church

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

‘Just the facts’ isn't good enough for journalists anymore, says Tow Center's journalism manifesto — Of the dozens of assertions in a wide-ranging “manifesto” about the altered state of journalism from Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, this one stands out:

Discussion: CJR, (Re)Structuring Journalism, @om, The Newspaper Guild, The Buttry Diary and Nieman Journalism Lab

Anjali Mullany / Fast Company:

The Associated Press Stylebook Doesn't Approve Of The Words “Ethnic Cleansing”, “Islamaphobia”, “Homophobia” — Politico reports that the Associated Press has decided to ban some controversial words and phrases from its famous Stylebook “in political or social contexts”—including “ethnic cleansing”, and words that end in “-phobia”.

Discussion: Guardian and Mediaite

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NLGJA president: ‘The AP is probably correct’ to discourage use of ‘homophobia’

Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Slate

Nieman Journalism Lab:

What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of an NPR Facebook experiment — Editor's note: In February, our friends at NPR Digital Services told you about an experiment they were trying to localize content on the network's Facebook page, which has a massive 2.5 million fans.

Discussion: Street Fight, NetNewsCheck Latest and eMedia Vitals

Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:

Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it … Most of those chortling over Tom Ricks's highly unusual ninety seconds on Fox News this week were wowed by the way he spoke liberal truth to conservative power, informing his astonished interviewer, Jon Scott …

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Chickaboomer

Julie Tate / Washington Post:

WikiLeaks suspect Manning expected to testify for the first time — The Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks is expected to testify in court for the first time as early as Wednesday …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Bradley Manning Hearing Shows Military Bosses More Concerned About Media Attention Than Manning's Conditions

Discussion: Guardian, NBC News, Firedoglake and dissenter.firedoglake.com

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Ready for His Close-Up: Ross Levinsohn to Join Zefr Board — Former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn, who has laid pretty low since he left there earlier this year, will be joining the board of the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, Zefr. — “Ross is a perfect intersection of everything …

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer: We're Not ‘Unique Enough’ to Charge for Web Access — Larry Kramer is not opposed to following the lead of the New York Times and others by constructing a paywall around USA Today's website, he just doesn't think the national newspaper has done enough to differentiate itself from the digital herd.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Alex Weprin / FishbowlDC:

Don Graham: Biggest Mistake Was Promoting Brand Instead Of People, Like ‘Appallingly Young’ Ezra Klein — Washington Post CEO Don Graham says the big mistake he made when he was publisher was promoting the Post brand over the brands of some of the talented reporters and editors there.

Discussion: TVNewser and Lost Remote