Mediagazer: Met Police ignored “vociferous” phone hacking warnings from own detectives (Steven Swinford/Telegraph)

2:00 AM ET, December 4, 2012

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

2 major lessons from the demise of The Daily — The publisher of News Corp.'s The Daily said earlier this year that the iPad-only publication might need a few more years to be profitable. Today the company announced it won't get that chance. — Although it has been one of the most-popular …

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

3 Theses About The Daily's Demise — The only way to even *know* what readers might like is to allow them to read and share on the open Internet. — Knowing what it's like inside a media company, let me state up front that there are epistemological problems in deciding from the outside why The Daily failed.

Jack Shafer:

The Daily didn't fail-Rupert gave up — When you're as wealthy as Rupert Murdoch ($9.4 billion) and you control a company as resource-rich as News Corp (market cap $58.1 billion), shuttering a 22-month-old business like The Daily doesn't signify failure as much as it does surrender.

Discussion: Media Decoder, TechCrunch, Capital New York, Quartz and Betabeat

Felix Salmon:

The impossibility of tablet-native journalism — The Daily has reached the end of its life: as News Corp splits in two, its losses, which might have been manageable within the current behemoth, would have loomed far too large in the smaller spinoff. — The news is not particularly surprising …

Discussion: 90WPM, Business Week, eMedia Vitals, ReadWrite, The Conversation, Garcia Media, Top Digital Journal News, Gawker, Electronista, The Next Web, TUAW, MacRumors and MacStories

Jim Romenesko:

Why The Daily Failed — Trevor Butterworth, who wrote about tech and other matters for The Daily iPad publication, writes on his Facebook wall: … * The Daily to cease publication Dec. 15 (wsj.com)

Discussion: AdAge, AllThingsD, Digits, Quartz, New York Magazine, TPM IdeaLab, CJR and The Awl

Peter Ha / Gizmodo:

What It Was Like Launching the Doomed iPad Magazine The Daily — I was the 19th employee hired by The Daily. My first day as the tech editor was on November 1, 2010, and the plan was to launch the next month. Needless to say, I was scared s**tless. — “You know you're going to go work for the devil, right?”

Discussion: New York Magazine and GeekWire

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian: The Daily closes shop: why the news app was doomed from the start

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Champagne corks fly at ‘The Journal’ while, three floors up, Daily staffers start job-hunting

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Forbes, Guardian and Crikey

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the News Corp Split: The Rise of Twenty-First Century Fox and The Daily's Demise

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Guardian and Capital New York

John McAfee / Who is McAfee?:

Another Apology. — I openly apologize to Vice Magazine for manipulating their recently published photo. I have been ferocioously put my place by Mr. Rocco for “interfering” with the objectivity of their reporting. I, for my own safety, manipulated the xif data on the image taken from my cellphone …

Discussion: VICE, SocialTimes, Gawker, Betabeat, Daily Dot, Mashable!, CNET, Wired, The Next Web and Naked Security

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpointing him to a location in Guatemala

Discussion: Gizmodo, Who is McAfee?, @katz, Daily Dot, Guardian and New York Magazine

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Leveson blamed for police reluctance to identify high-profile Savile probe suspect — Lord Justice Leveson. Pic: Reuters — Journalists are blaming the impact of Leveson for a police refusal to confirm the identity of the latest high-profile suspect questioned in relation to the Jimmy Savile child abuse investigation.

Discussion: BBC and Guardian

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter: British Parliament Debates Leveson Report Findings Into Press Regulation

BBC:
Leveson report: No timetable for draft legislation, says government

Discussion: Channel 4 and Virgin Media …

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Hackers Behind Tumblr Worm Say They Warned Tumblr of Vulnerability Weeks Ago — Tumblr has been flooded by a worm that's spamming thousands of user's feeds with an anti-Tumblr rant. In an interview, a spokesman for the group that's apparently behind the hack claims they warned Tumblr weeks ago …

Discussion: Naked Security, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, CNNMoney.com, Daily Dot, SocialTimes, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Business Insider, Adweek and Softpedia News

Amanda Holpuch / Guardian: Tumblr hit by cyber worm from group engaged in ‘anti-blogging’ campaign

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Hackers claim 8,600 accounts infected in major Tumblr compromise (update: Tumblr responds)

Discussion: Gawker and VentureBeat

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

30 More Buyouts Coming to the New York Times — The New York Times, like the rest of the newspaper industry, went through a painful series of buyouts after the 2008 financial collapse exacerbated the already ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry. In 2009, they cut 100 positions.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, Forbes, WWD Media Headlines, Media & Entertainment, CBS New York, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mashable!, Adweek, The New York Observer, Poynter, ABCNEWS and Media Decoder

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
These Numbers Show Why The New York Times Is Firing More Journalists

Discussion: The Week, Capital New York, New York Magazine and The Newspaper Guild

Tony Silber / Folio:

Hearst: Making Headway on Mobile but Still Bullish on Print — Company likely to test new print mag in 2013, despite 800,000 paid mobile subs. — Hearst Magazines has 800,000 paying app customers, and 80 percent of them are new to Hearst brands, making mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones …

Discussion: Mashable!

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Longform journalism morphs in print as it finds a new home online — As technology has renewed attention to longform journalism with platforms, apps and sites like Instapaper, LongReads, Byliner, The Atavist, Kindle Singles and The Longform iPad app to name a few, I wondered: Does longform journalism still have a place in print?

Discussion: Tampa Bay Times and Virginian-Pilot

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

The Heiress — On Saturday, July 2, 2011, a high-society traffic jam descended on the cobblestoned town square of Burford, a village sixty-eight miles northwest of London, not far from the market town of Chipping Norton. Hundreds of chauffeured cars approached a gated stone wall …

Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:

Partnership Offers Support For Media Entrepreneurs — Can the nascent entrepreneurial ideas bouncing around Silicon Valley help reinvent public media? — Matter Ventures, a start-up accelerator that will provide four months of financial and logistical support for budding media entrepreneurs …

Discussion: Matter and @andrewhaeg, Thanks:@patmix

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

BuzzFeed's latest: Is this the future of magazines? — What happens if you cross the editorial precision of a magazine with the latest bells and whistles of web publishing? Viral site BuzzFeed hopes the answer looks like the long-form feature it published last week on the history of video games.

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

Apple's ITunes Would Be One of World's Biggest Media Companies — Photograph by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images — Apple has more than 435 million iTunes accounts stored in the company's database, according to Talal Khan, an analyst. — Google, Facebook and even Yahoo have been hailed …

Discussion: TUAW

Steven Swinford / Telegraph:

Met Police ignored “vociferous” phone hacking warnings from own detectives — Senior detectives have questioned the Metropolitan Police's version of events over phone hacking after claiming that “vociferous” warnings were ignored and that official records are “inaccurate”.

Telegraph:

Tom Mockridge quit News Corp after major Murdoch shake-up left him with a role 'he didn't want' — Tom Mockridge resigned as chief executive of News International, publisher of The Times and the Sun, because a major management shake-up at Rupert Murdoch's media empire has left him with a role he does not want.