Mediagazer: Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180m (Jemima Kiss/Guardian)

4:00 PM ET, December 4, 2012

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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. — So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Guardian, The Wrap, Washington Post, Politico, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Los Angeles Times, Media Decoder, Chickaboomer, The Week, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Poynter and msnbc.com

Erik Wemple:

Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward has dropped a nice little headline for the world's media nerds. “Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate.” Turns out that Roger Ailes, who runs Fox News …

Discussion: The Week and Pressing Issues

Taylor Berman / Gawker:
Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would “Bankroll” It

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast and Daily Download

Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:

Photo of Man's Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage — A freelance photographer working for the New York Post on an unrelated assignment happened to be standing on the 49th Street station platform when 58-year-old Queens resident Ki Suk Han was suddenly pushed onto …

Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap, Capital New York, City Room, New York Post, New York Magazine, Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @andrew_pugh1, @kenisajerk, @neilthackray, @jeffjohnroberts, @allyssiaalleyne, @jordanc, @mandystadt, @devonlmurphy and WebProNews

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism? — When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? — That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page …

Discussion: Gawker, Daily Download and HyperVocal

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Who Let This Man Die on the Subway?

Discussion: Poynter, Digital Spy, The Huffington Post, BBC, Pressing Issues and The Week

Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:

Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy — President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion …

Discussion: Mediaite, FishbowlNY, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Fashionista, The Week, Chickaboomer, The Daily Caller, msnbc.com and The Huffington Post

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The New York Observer, The Conversation, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, 90WPM, ReadWrite, Felix Salmon, Adweek, GigaOM and Garcia Media

The Onion: Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter

Jack Shafer:
The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up

Discussion: mediabistro.com, The Daily Dish, Forbes, Talking Biz News, The Loop, Los Angeles Times, Quartz and MarketWatch

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
3 Theses About The Daily's Demise

Discussion: New York Magazine and CNNMoney.com

Guardian:

David Cameron tells editors: implement Leveson to avoid press law — Prime minister gives newspaper editors until Thursday to show progress in agreeing on reformed regulatory structure — David Cameron has told national newspaper editors they must implement the Leveson report recommendations …

Reuters:
Cameron: clock ticking for newspapers to clean up act

Discussion: Guardian

Guido Fawkes: Who Has Been Naughty and Nice This Year? MPs on Each Side of the Leveson Debate

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to cut about one-third of newsroom staff — In a note posted on Facebook, Guild members say the Advance-owned Cleveland Plain Dealer has told them it plans to eliminate about one-third of the staff in 2013. The changes would come after the latest contract …

Discussion: The Wrap and Crain's Cleveland Business

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

John McAfee Admits That Vice Accidentally Revealed His Location in Guatemala — The photo in question. (Photo: Vice) — Antivirus software king John McAfee finally admitted this morning that an “unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters” royally screwed him yesterday by accidentally revealing …

Discussion: Who is McAfee?, VICE, Business Insider and Guardian

Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
Magazine editors helped John McAfee flee Belize

Discussion: The Next Web and Who is McAfee?

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Forecast: Internet ad spend will outstrip all print in 2015 — 2015 is the year when internet advertising spend will overtake combined newspaper and magazine ad spend globally, according to ad group ZenithOptimedia's latest forecast. — That mark has already been passed in some countries, but not on a worldwide basis.

Discussion: AllThingsD, BtoB Magazine and Guy Fawkes' blog

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180m — The ‘YouTube of audio’ claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes off — If the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good for Soundcloud, the Berlin-based sound-sharing site.

Discussion: One Man & His Blog and SocialTimes

Jordan Kurzweil / GigaOM:

Why I tried to buy The Daily — Closing The Daily was a mistake. It should have been saved. — The move to shutter follows the same battiness with which News Corp has been approaching digital ventures since its first foray into the web with iGuide in 1995: ahead-of-the-curve with a grand …

Discussion: Guardian and FishbowlNY

Jim Romenesko:

Chicago Sun-Times union members boycott paper's holiday bowling party — The Chicago Newspaper Guild urged its members to boycott last night's holiday bowling party, thrown by Chicago Sun-Times parent Wrapports. (The two sides are in “entering a crucial stage” of contract talks.)

Discussion: Chicago Reader