Mediagazer: Digital Media's Citizen Kane (Jennifer Hicks/Forbes)

10:35 AM ET, December 19, 2012

Top News:

Pollard inquiry: BBC ‘incapable’ of dealing with Jimmy Savile affair — • Newsnight editor Peter Rippon, his deputy Liz Gibbons and 5 Live boss Adrian Van Klaveren to move to new BBC jobs — • Deputy director of news Stephen Mitchell retires amid criticism and is to leave BBC after 38 years

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, @joshhalliday, @breakingnewsuk, NetNewsCheck Latest, @gordonrayner, @gordonrayner, Telegraph, Telegraph and @journalismnews

New York Times:

BBC Inquiry Blames Rigid Management for Mishandling Sex Abuse Scandal — LONDON — A report into the sexual abuse crisis that has shaken the British Broadcasting Corporation was strongly critical on Wednesday of the editorial and management decisions that led to the cancellation of a broadcast …

Adam Sherwin / The Independent:
Pollard report: Former BBC Director-General George Entwistle ignored warnings of Jimmy Savile's ‘dark side’

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian, @skynewsbreak and @dansabbagh

Guido Fawkes: Full Tim Davie Email to BBC Staff

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

New York Times tells us to take down screenshot of its interactive graphic (that we praised) — The New York Times Co. has demanded that we take down a screenshot of an interactive graphic that the Times produced for the recent US presidential election. It appears in a Quartz post …

Brian Keegan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How does Wikipedia deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors — If you follow me on Twitter, you're probably already well acquainted with my views on what should happen in the wake of the shooting spree that massacred 20 children and 6 educators …

Adrienne LaFrance / Denver Post:
Newtown to the media: You're making this nightmare worse

Discussion: BBC, mediabistro.com, Poynter, The Huffington Post and TVNewser

Jennifer Hicks / Forbes:

Digital Media's Citizen Kane — Out of the London tech scene comes a 28-year-old journalist/entrepreneur surrounded by controversy whereever he goes. Whether it was the publishing of his private dispute between himself and the tech editor of The Guardian or numerous public arguments …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

First look: The Foreign Affairs redesign — Foreign Affairs, the 90-year-old magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is getting a makeover. As part of an effort to expand its appeal beyond the foreign policy establishment, every issue of Foreign Affairs will now feature …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix-Backed Video Sharing Bill Moves Ahead, Again — Good news for Netflix: Legislation the company has backed, designed to let people share their video rental history on the Web, passed the U.S. House yesterday. — The bad news: Netflix went through the same exercise a year ago, but the bill never made it out of Congress.

Discussion: Fox News and goodlatte.house.gov

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jacob Weisberg: ‘The confusion about paywalls is bad for sites like ours’ — Jacob Weisberg reacted so swiftly to Forbes reporter Jeff Bercovici's suggestion Friday that Slate might put in some sort of pay model because “the confusion about paywalls is bad for sites like ours,” …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

DuPont awards bring focus to dangers of reporting from war-torn Syria — Two reported series about the war in Syria will receive Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards during a ceremony at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library next month. — CBS News is the winner of a 2013 duPont Award …

Ken Layne / The Awl:

Are Newspaper People Really Still Wondering If Journalism Can Exist Without Newsprint? — Decades of often awkward interaction with America's “print media” professionals has proven (to me) that writers who talk about their medium are bores, and also bad writers.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Penguin settles with Department of Justice in ebook pricing case — Penguin, which is merging with Random House, has settled with the Department of Justice in the ebook pricing lawsuit, the DOJ announced late Tuesday afternoon. The DOJ sued Apple, Penguin and four other publishers in April for conspiring to set ebook prices.

Discussion: CNET, Media Decoder, Globe and Mail, GalleyCat, The United States Department …, ZDNet, PublishersWeekly.com and AllThingsD

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pakastani teen blogger Malala Yousafzai is Time's runner-up for Person of the Year — The Taliban “wanted to silence” Malala Yousafzai when they shot her and several classmates on Oct. 9, Aryn Baker writes. “Instead, they amplified her voice.” — The Pakistani teenager was targeted …

Discussion: TIME