Mediagazer: Patch Adds COO as Leadership Change Continues (Steven Jacobs/Street Fight)

10:50 AM ET, December 6, 2012

Top News:

John Koblin / Deadspin:

Why Is An ESPN Vice President Spreading Rumors That I'm Straight? — “I don't know your personal life,” ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone. “I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life.” — Earlier today, on Twitter, two different journalism students …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN

Discussion: Daily Download

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Tim Cook hints that Apple plans to redefine the television set — Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has poured gasoline on the growing fire of speculation that his company plans to build a full-fledged television set in the near future, with comments disparaging current television sets as outdated pieces of technology.

Discussion: Rock Center …, Business Week, VentureBeat, Forbes, GigaOM and CNET

John Nichols / The Nation:

FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media — We now know that top players with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel plotted with General David Petraeus about the prospect of using the cable network as a platform for launching a “Petraeus for President” campaign.

Discussion: Free Press Blog and New York Magazine

Brian Lowry / Chicago Tribune: Media-ownership rules need new look

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing — In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat. — Over the past several days, as compelling testimony over the harsh treatment …

Discussion: New York Times and Pressing Issues

David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Bradley Manning Hearing On Confinement Resumes

Discussion: BAGnewsNotes

Eliza Gray / The New Republic:
Bradley Manning Gets No Love From The New York Times

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Guardian:

Max Clifford arrested on suspicion of sexual offences — One of UK's best known publicists arrested by officers investigating abuse claims against Jimmy Savile and others — Max Clifford, one of the best known publicists in Britain, has been arrested by officers investigating sexual abuse claims against Jimmy Savile and others.

Discussion: PressGazette, Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent, @richpeppiatt, @timescrime, Channel 4 and BBC

Associated Press:
Police arrest BBC radio presenter Stuart Hall over rape allegations: report

Discussion: The Independent, Business Insider, @breakingnewsuk, Guardian and BBC

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Victim's family 'couldn't sleep' after seeing ‘traumatic’ NY Post subway photo — The family of Ki-Suck Han, the man immortalized in a front-page New York Post photo of his impending death on a subway track, spoke publicly on Wednesday about the impact of the image. — The New York Times reports:

Discussion: New York Times, Softpedia News, TIME and Jack Shafer

Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:

Patch Adds COO as Leadership Change Continues — AOL's Patch network of hyperlocal news sites has made yet another significant change at the top, naming former Westwood One operations head Steve Kalin to the newly created position of president and COO. Kalin will take responsibility …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

New editor for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BiJ) has a new managing editor - a former head of the Sunday Times's insight team, Christopher Hird. — He has been appointed by the BiJ's trustees in succession to Iain Overton …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon and Google both launch Brazilian ebookstores — Both Amazon and Google launched digital bookstores in Brazil this week. The companies join Kobo in an attempt to get a piece of Brazil's nascent but quickly growing ebook market. Eighteen percent of Brazilian adults with internet access …

Discussion: Reuters, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Register, The Next Web, Good E-Reader, Android Police and Engadget

Andrew Belonsky / T Magazine:

Oh Snap | Instagram in Print — With the dawn of the Instagram age, the time it takes to create and distribute a photograph — what sometimes used to take days — has shrunk to, well, an instant. We're now awash in a torrent of split-second events. Here to impose some permanence …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks appear at Old Bailey — David Cameron's former comms director and ex-News International head appear on charges of payments to officials — David Cameron's former communications director, Andy Coulson, and the ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks …

Discussion: The Scotsman

Matt Thompson / Poynter:

Why journalists should explore the business side of news — Most of us still remember a time when revenue was enough of an incidental byproduct of journalism that journalists could ignore it almost completely. We just did our jobs, and then — somehow — money happened.

Jessica Plautz / Investigative News Network:

Investigative News Network Grows to More Than 70 Member Organizations — INN is pleased to announce the addition of six newsrooms from around the U.S., whose work ranges from covering government to public broadcasting to community reporting. The new members are The News Enterprise …