Mediagazer: USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer: We're Not ‘Unique Enough’ to Charge for Web Access (Brent Lang/The Wrap)

3:45 PM ET, November 28, 2012

Top News:

Memo to Financial Times staff: Don't tweet commentary about the Leveson report — Financial Times staffers are told not to tweet commentary or analysis of the Leveson report on media standards when it's released tomorrow. “We will have commentary but it will stretch beyond 140 characters,” writes editor Lionel Barber.

Discussion: Telegraph and BBC

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

BBC:
Leveson Inquiry: Cameron and Clegg meet to agree response

Discussion: Guardian, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Sky News, The Daily Beast, London Evening Standard, Guy Fawkes' blog and The Independent

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide

Discussion: Hit & Run

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

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

Discussion: Hillicon Valley

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.

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Google Fires a Rare Public Salvo Over Aggregators — BERLIN — Google's imprint on daily life is hard to ignore in Europe, where it reportedly has 93 percent of the Internet search market, more than in the United States. Yet when it comes to its lobbying of lawmakers, Google prefers a low profile.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, Financial Times, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, The Next Web, ZDNet, Daily Dot and Search Engine Land

Madeline Chambers / Reuters:
German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law

Discussion: Associated Press

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Problems With a Reporter's Facebook Posts, and a Possible Solution — Start with a reporter who likes to be responsive to readers, is spontaneous and impressionistic in her personal writing style, and not especially attuned to how casual comments may be received in a highly politicized setting.

Discussion: @anthonyha, @ryanlawler and Pressing Issues

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: Columbia University …, BuzzMachine, CJR, @om, (Re)Structuring Journalism, Freedom of the Prez, The Newspaper Guild, The Buttry Diary and Nieman Journalism Lab

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: broadcastnow.co.uk and The Huffington Post

Guido Fawkes: Piers Morgan Discussing Phone Hacking With Charlotte Church

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Publishing will expand to Europe; Kirshbaum to head U.S. operations — Amazon is expanding its original publishing efforts to Europe and is also shaking up its publishing division's structure, Publishing VP Jeff Belle announced in a letter to literary agents Wednesday (the full letter is below).

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com and Publishers Lunch

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: 10,000 Words, FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

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

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

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Washington Times to cut staff — The Washington Times is readying itself for staff reductions. new Washington Times editor David Jackson has just sent his staff the following memo. It follows a pointed set of questions posed to Jackson by the Erik Wemple Blog about plans for reducing the paper's newsroom.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

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 …