Mediagazer: Don Graham: Biggest Mistake Was Promoting Brand Instead Of People, Like ‘Appallingly Young’ Ezra Klein (Alex Weprin/FishbowlDC)

11:25 AM ET, November 28, 2012

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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 — Lord Justice Leveson publishes his report tomorrow. Here is a numerical summary of how the Inquiry has taken shape so far — • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian — The Leveson Inquiry opened almost 18 months ago …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

BBC:

Leveson Inquiry: Cameron receives report — The Leveson Inquiry was established by the prime minister in July last year — The Leveson report into media standards has been given to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of its official publication on Thursday.

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian, Sky News, Telegraph, London Evening Standard, The Huffington Post, New York Times and The Independent

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Leveson inquiry: the essential guide

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 — Transcript of the footage of Piers Morgan specking to Charlotte Church: … Just in case you have forgotten, Piers claims: … He told Leveson:

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

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, The Newspaper Guild, The Buttry Diary and Nieman Journalism Lab

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 and Chickaboomer

Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Tom Ricks: Fox News ‘is making it up’

Discussion: Mediaite, Hollywood Reporter and The Raw Story

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, Firedoglake, dissenter.firedoglake.com and NBC News

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, FishbowlNY and Lost Remote

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Dick Costolo says Twitter is a reinvention of the town square — but with TV — Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo gave a lecture earlier this week at his alma mater — the University of Michigan — where he talked to students from the Ford School of Public Policy about how the real …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Softpedia News