Mediagazer: Mistaken Nation — In journalism, as in real life, stuff happens. (Paul Farhi/American Journalism Review)

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

News Corp to split as top executive Tom Mockridge poised to go — News Corporation's most senior executive in Britain is to leave the company, as the media behemoth controlled by Rupert Murdoch accelerates plans to split into two, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Discussion: Guardian, Media Decoder, Nieman Journalism Lab, AllThingsD, @davidfolkenflik, @mlcalderone and New York Magazine

Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:

Tom Mockridge, News International CEO, Steps Down After Being Passed Over — Tom Mockridge, the CEO of News International, the U.K. newspaper unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has resigned, the company announced Sunday night. — His exit, effective at year's end, comes amid reports …

Discussion: Guardian, Media News, Media Week and Guardian

John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal:
Journal's Top Editor to Run Spin-Off

Discussion: Digital Media Wire, Reuters, Deadline.com, Digital Spy, Bloomberg, The Wrap, @felixsalmon and AllThingsD

David Carr / New York Times:

John Huey, Editor of Time Inc., Prepares to Leave — In the decade I've covered John Huey, I'd never once been to his magisterial office on the 34th floor of the Time & Life building. It is large and imposing in a way its occupant is not, an unlikely landing spot for an old newspaper hack.

Discussion: @megan

Angela Phillips / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Leveson proposals would safeguard investigative journalism’ — Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths, University of London — Lord Justice Leveson delivering his report on Thursday (29 November) — With two journalists jailed and a string of others awaiting trial we already have a legal system that controls press misbehaviour.

Discussion: Guardian, Big News Network.com and TechCrunch

Jack Shafer:

Britain's press needs more freedom, not more regulation — The Leveson inquiry completed its 17-month official investigation into the filth and the fury of the British press today, pulling into the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center opposite Westminster Abbey.

Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
British Press Lauds Cameron Over Leveson Stand

Discussion: Virgin Media …, Guardian, Guardian and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of going deeper — The news industry appears to be having another one of its Admiral Stockdale moments. Who am I? Why am I here? — From Columbia's “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” report ("A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe" …

Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:

A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket — While most of the punditocracy was chattering earlier this month about Mitt Romney's “gifts” gaffe, another Republican took an unexpectedly bold stand about a huge and controversial special-interest handout that largely benefits Democratic constituencies.

Discussion: Dynamist

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Frontline makes the documentary interactive with 'David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal' — From stories on voter targeting to car design, the PBS program Frontline has been actively exploring innovative ways to bring its content to online audiences. Its latest project …

Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:

Mistaken Nation — In journalism, as in real life, stuff happens. It happened to Ben Smith on March 22, 2007. That morning, Smith, then a crack reporter and blogger at Politico, got a dynamite tip: John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, would be announcing the suspension …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Atlantic Media Tries Turning Twitter Into a Bigger Ad Platform — 140 Proof System Gathers Audience From Atlantic Followers and Others — Atlantic Media is taking publishers' latest stab at making social media good for something besides gaining traffic. — The company …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

The Guardian's N0tice platform gets a live-music mapping tool, showing fans' tweets and Instagram snaps — N0tice is one of the Guardian's testbed projects, which we've previously noted has real potential to take news reporting, and news gathering, in new directions.