Mediagazer: When print is thriving, where does social media fit? A look at practices at India's The Hindu (Nieman Journalism Lab)

8:25 AM ET, January 18, 2013

Top News:

Manti Te'o and the New Burden of Internet Truth — I'm not going to dig too deep into the extremely weird story of Manti Te'o, Notre Dame linebacker, Heisman trophy contender, who either made up a fake girlfriend for some reason or was hoaxed into believing his fake girlfriend was real for another …

Discussion: CBS New York and Fox News

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Reporting in The Times on Football Star's Nonexistent Girlfriend Was Glancing, but Still Troubling — The truly strange - and still unfolding - tale of the Notre Dame football star and his nonexistent dead girlfriend has lessons for journalists, including those at The Times.

Discussion: AdAge, Gawker, The Week, The Informer, L.A. NOW, The Daily Beast, SBNation.com and Pressing Issues

Jim Romenesko:

Keep in mind: Reporters are no longer given time to report — From DIANE WERTS: Subject — One thing nobody brings up about Te'o reporting. I'm a former Newsday editor/critic who took a buyout after 22 years at the paper in 2008 — long enough to blog, but before all the Twitter/Facebook fun.

Discussion: Associated Press

Jack Shafer:
Manti Te'o and the press get blitzed

Discussion: Deadspin, L.A. NOW and Hollywood Life

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's editor-in-chief explains editing, reporting behind Manti Te'o story

Discussion: Sports Illustrated, Guardian, The Dan Patrick Show, Poynter, The Daily Beast, Deadspin, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, AdAge, Salon, Slate, The Huffington Post, Sports Media Guy, Sports World Report, Erik Wemple and SBNation.com

Mobutu Sese Seko / Gawker:
Journalism, Scientology, and Manti Te'o: Finding the Leper with the Most Fingers

Discussion: Poynter, VH1 Celebrity and Mashable!

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Linking and checklists could have prevented journalists from Manti Te'o ‘girlfriend’ hoax embarrassment

Discussion: Baltimore Sun, American Journalism Review, VICE, Mother Jones, Outsports, ComPost, BuzzFeed, The Daily Nightly, Hollywood Life, Gawker, Columbia Journalism Review, B&C, Zombie Journalism and BuzzFeed

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

PCC to investigate Julie Burchill column — The Press Complaints Commission is to launch an inquiry into the publication of Julie Burchill's controversial column in The Observer that caused outrage among transgender people. The commission decided to act after receiving 800 complaints.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

New Tribune CEO Peter Liguori sees opportunity to grow — Peter Liguori is Tribune's new CEO. — In its first board of directors meeting since emerging from a protracted bankruptcy, Tribune Co. named investor Bruce Karsh as chairman and veteran entertainment executive Peter Liguori as chief executive.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Media Decoder, The Wrap, tribune.com and Broadcasting & Cable

Nieman Journalism Lab:

When print is thriving, where does social media fit? A look at practices at India's The Hindu — In November, Sam Pitroda, technology advisor to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, held a “global Twitter press conference” on his account (@pitrodasam). Hyped as the first of its kind …

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning denied chance to make whistleblower defence — Judge rules that Manning will not be allowed to present evidence about his motives for the leak - a key plank of his defence — Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in America's history …

Discussion: Techdirt

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

Biden Getting an Autobiography From The Onion (Whether He Wants It or Not) — “Hombre, you've just done Uncle Joe a real solid buying this book,” begins the foreword to a new autobiography attributed to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “I ain't the kind of guy who forgets his debts.

Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, Splitsider, Mediaite, bookforum.com and The Huffington Post

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Hearst begins shipping magazines on Apple's Newsstand before anywhere else — Apple and Hearst have struck a deal to offer 20 of the publishing organization's magazines on the iOS Newsstand before they're available in print or via other outlets, reports The Loop.

Discussion: AllThingsD, The Loop, TechCrunch, GigaOM and CNET

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Winfrey's Low-Rated Channel Is Poised to Break Through — Last Tuesday afternoon, Oprah Winfrey called the co-presidents of her cable channel OWN with jump-on-the-couch-with-joy news. “Lance wants to talk,” she said, referring to Lance Armstrong, whom she had been courting for a confessional interview …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Calvin Reid / PublishersWeekly.com:

Penguin Revamps Book Country, Adds Services, Reduces Cost to Authors — Book Country, an online writing community and self-publishing service launched by Penguin in 2011, is relaunching and redesigning the site in stages. The Book Country self-publishing site will relaunch today with reduced fees …

Discussion: GalleyCat

Byron Tau / Politico:

Survey: Users trust social media as news source — Voter trust in political information from Facebook, Twitter and other social media services is now on par with that in traditional news sources, according to a new survey shared with POLITICO. — Recent years have seen candidates increasingly devoting …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, newsplexer and @michaelroston

Michael Martinez / CNN:

Pauline Phillips, longtime Dear Abby advice columnist, dies at 94 — (CNN) — Pauline Phillips, better known to millions of newspaper readers as the original Dear Abby advice columnist, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, her family said Thursday.

Discussion: Pop Culture, The Huffington Post, TMZ.com, ABCNEWS, NY Daily News, Reuters, Associated Press, Us Weekly, Voice of America, The Daily Beast, ComPost, Toronto Star, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg and ABCNEWS

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Wikipedia plans to expand mobile access around the globe with new funding — On the list of this round's winners of the Knight News Challenge, there is no bigger name than Wikipedia. With Knight's $600,000 grant, the Wikimedia Foundation plans to increase the free encyclopedia's reach on mobile …

Discussion: Knight Foundation