Mediagazer: Pay Wall Push: Why Newspapers Are Hopping Over the Picket Fence (David Carr/Media Decoder)

9:40 PM ET, December 7, 2012

Top News:

Pay Wall Push: Why Newspapers Are Hopping Over the Picket Fence — When The Wall Street Journal broke the news that The Washington Post was likely to start charging for online content sometime next year, it should not have come as a surprise, but it did. — The shock had something …

Discussion: CJR, The Verge, The Atlantic Wire, Daily Download and Guardian

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Online Paywalls and the Future of Media: A Few Hard Truths — Yesterday, both The Daily Beast (or, more accurately, whatever Tina Brown can toss together after they've absorbed the corpse of Newsweek and laid a bunch of people off) and the Washington Post announced that they may be instituting …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Wrap, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Capital New York and FishbowlNY

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post, Daily Beast Jumping On The Paywall Bandwagon. Too Late?

Discussion: CJR, Poynter, Capital New York, DCist, Noted, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

Caity Weaver / Gawker:

DJs Behind the Royal Hospital Hoax Have Deleted Their Twitter Accounts; There's Speculation They've Been Fired (UPDATE) — The two DJs behind the Kate Middleton hospital prank, now being blamed as a contributing factor to her nurse's suicide, have either deleted their verified Twitter accounts, or had them removed.

Discussion: National Post, Mirror.co.uk, TMZ.com, mUmBRELLA, Yahoo! News, Guardian, Telegraph, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, @thematthewkeys, International Business Times, KNXV, National Updates, Media Decoder and The Atlantic Wire

Guardian:

2Day FM: Australia's shock-jock station with history of backfiring stunts — One DJ previously reprimanded for making teen girl admit she was raped, and calling a female journalist a ‘fat slag’ — The Sydney radio station that made a hoax call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

News Corp's publishing arm to focus on losses at Times and Sunday Times — More integration of titles difficult under terms that Rupert Murdoch agreed for Times Newspapers in 1981 — Slashing losses at the Times and Sunday Times, running at an estimated £1m a week …

Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s The Daily Shutdown Affects 126 Employees

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Some Second Thoughts and Reader Feedback About the Middle East and Social Media — When I wrote last Wednesday about The Times's Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, and criticism of her social media use, many readers - and some of those quoted in the blog post - responded.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Incoming Tribune CEO Peter Liguori plans WGN facelift — Tribune Co. CEO-in-waiting Peter Liguori will focus on a makeover of the company's WGN America cable station as soon as the media giant emerges from reorganization, The Post has learned. — The national cable network …

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Rob Fishman / BuzzFeed:

Google's Lost Social Network — Last October, while hundreds of protesters were encamped in Zuccotti Park, a handful of people occupied a glass building in downtown Washington D.C. Wearing sheepish grins and business casual attire, the ninety-nine percent they were not; one demonstrator said he worked for Grover Norquist.

Discussion: Business Insider and The Daily Beast

Telegraph:

Leveson Report: PM proposes third way to regulate the press — David Cameron is considering establishing a new independent press watchdog by Royal Charter - the mechanism used to set up the BBC and the Bank of England. — Watch Lord Leveson deliver his report

Discussion: Memex 1.1, Guardian and BBC

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
U.K. Judge Who Probed News Says Internet Can Be Tamed

Discussion: Telegraph, Hollywood Reporter, HeraldSun, theweek.co.uk, Digital Spy, Daily Mail, ABC News, LSE Media Policy Project and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Vevo's YouTube Deal Expires in Three Days. But the “Hulu for Music Videos” Site Won't Go Dark. — Vevo, the digital music video service, and Google, which powers Vevo.com and distributes Vevo's videos on its YouTube site, have a distribution deal that expires on Sunday.

Discussion: WebProNews

Foster Kamer:

The Worst People in New York City, No. 92: Ryan Holiday — Okay, so, The New York Observer for some reason thought it'd be a good idea to put this Ryan Holiday assclown's pieces on their site. Maybe Gell was like: Hey, let's troll everyone while we decide whether or not to keep the media desk …

Discussion: ZDNet

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Why didn't NBC News apologize to George Zimmerman? — There are lots of damning allegations against NBC News in the “reckless defamation” lawsuit filed yesterday by lawyers for George Zimmerman. It charges NBC News with an effort to “create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain” …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Radio & Television … and Poynter

Reuters:

Analysis: Hollywood sees licensing cash cow in Disney-Netflix deal — (Reuters) - Cha-ching! — That's the sound ringing in the ears of Hollywood studio executives after Walt Disney Co landed a rich deal with Netflix to stream its movies to television. — Netflix's arrival as a bidder …