Mediagazer: Leveson D-day dawns as coalition split over press regulation (Guardian)

6:00 PM ET, November 28, 2012

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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

Emily Bell / Guardian:

The Leveson inquiry is irrelevant to 21st-century journalism — The judge's findings will address the nefarious behaviour of newspapers but not the vast array of media on the internet — Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the internet abhors geo-specific regulation.

Guardian:

Leveson D-day dawns as coalition split over press regulation — Conservatives accuse Liberal Democrats of playing dangerous game over state regulation of media — The threat of a coalition split over future regulation of the press was looming as Conservative cabinet sources accused …

Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Vital, scary’: The Leveson report is coming

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide

Discussion: @gallaghereditor and Hit & Run

John Burn-Murdoch / Guardian:
The Leveson inquiry in numbers

Discussion: Telegraph and Jon Slattery

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

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Guardian, Guardian, Sky News, Guardian, London Evening Standard, The Daily Beast, Guy Fawkes' blog, New York Times and The Independent

Vikram Dodd / Guardian: Leveson warns Metropolitan police it faces criticism

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: Poynter, New York Magazine, Guardian, @smalera, @jeffjohnroberts, @anthonyha, @ryanlawler, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues

John Cook / Gawker:

New York Times Bureau Chief Isn't Chief of Her Own Tweets — Jodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days.

Ali Abunimah / The Electronic Intifada:

Responding to New York Times Public Editor's smear against me — I sent this letter to Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of The New York Times today: — Dear Ms. Sullivan, — As public editor of The New York Times, your role, as I understand it, is to advocate for the interests of readers and to be an arbiter of accuracy.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Dear Jeff: a Handy List of Contradictory, Surefire Paths to Success at CNN — Try to imagine Jeff Zucker's inbox on Wednesday morning. — Along with all the e-mails from friends and former colleagues asking “Is it true?” — namely that he is the choice to run CNN Worldwide …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: Analysis: Why Jeff Zucker is right for CNN

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
CNN wants you to know: things really are looking up

Discussion: TVNewser and Radio & Television …

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Struggling CNN Worldwide Is Said to Be Drawn to Jeffrey Zucker

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.

Discussion: Radio & Television …

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

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

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: How can we build a future of post-industrial journalism?

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, Daily Dot, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News and ZDNet

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

Discussion: Associated Press

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

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, NetNewsCheck Latest and 10,000 Words

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

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 and Mediaite

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Washington Times to cut staff for second time in three years [Updated] — This post has been updated. — The Washington Times is readying itself for staff reductions. New Editor David Jackson sent his staff the following memo today. It comes after a pointed set of questions posed …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlDC