Mediagazer: Another blog post that won't make any money (Ryan McCarthy/MediaFile)

9:35 AM ET, February 7, 2013

Top News:

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Phone-hacking scandal: News Corp costs rise to $360m — Figures released by News Corp today reveal the enormous ongoing financial impact of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. — In the three months to 31 December the company incurred $56m (£35.7m) in costs relating to phone-hacking …

Discussion: Management Today, The Week UK, The Independent and Guardian

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

News Corp. says its split-up is on track — The separation of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. into two separate publicly traded companies is on track to be completed by the end of the current fiscal year, executives said today. — On a quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts …

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forbes, Media Week and New York Magazine

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Posts Gain on Strength of Cable Channels — 8:54 p.m. | Updated Strong growth at News Corporation's cable channels FX, Fox News and regional sports networks helped the company more than double its net income in the three-month period that ended Dec. 31, offsetting lingering costs related …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Home Media Magazine and The Wrap

Colin Kruger / Sydney Morning Herald:
News Corp shares fall as publishing struggles

Discussion: ninemsn, Crikey and Bloomberg

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

The New York Times now boasts 668,000 paying digital subscribers, Q4 revenue rises to $575.8m — The New York Times Company today reported strong earnings for the fourth quarter of and full year 2012. — The publisher's total revenues increased 5.2 percent to $575.8 million from $547.4 million in Q4 2011 …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Poynter, Business Wire and New York Times

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

New York Times posts ho-hum numbers, slow digital growth — The New York Times posted new earnings numbers this morning and they present a familiar, discouraging story of the Grey Lady's inability to grow its digital business fast enough to offset other revenue declines.

Ryan McCarthy / MediaFile:

Another blog post that won't make any money — It's been a strange and daunting decade for print journalism — it's now an even stranger time for web journalism. We've become accustomed to reading headlines like BuzzFeed's recent $19 million fund raising, followed by news of buyouts for veterans at the New York Times.

Discussion: @niemanlab, @wfrick, @mathewi and @jeffjarvis, Thanks:@mccarthyryanj

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Business Insider vs. Digiday: One man's aggregation is another man's traffic hijacking — Plagiarism. Copyright infringement. Traffic hijacking. These are all terms publishers like to use when someone excerpts their content without permission, whether it's Google News or The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Poynter, PandoDaily and Digiday, Thanks:@mathewi

Henry Blodget / Business Insider: Thank You For Aggregating Us!

Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

How Jihadists Use Twitter, And Soon Even Instagram — A new research paper tracks how and why Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations and their sympathizers use social media. — Violent jihadists prefer foreign-language online web forums for their online social networking …

Discussion: The FJP

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Magazines React to Post Office Cutbacks: ‘The Friday Evening Post’? — Updated The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays.

Discussion: magazine.org, Democrat And Chronicle, Home Media Magazine, New Yorker, BtoB Magazine, AdAge, Poynter and Politico

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Sky News Arabia Twitter accounts hacked by ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ — One of Sky News Arabia's Twitter accounts — Sky News Arabia's Twitter and Facebook accounts were targeted by hackers last night, the broadcaster has revealed. — A group calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army” …

Discussion: Softpedia News

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Robin Roberts Announces Date Of Return To ‘GMA’ — Robin Roberts is returning to “Good Morning America” on Feb. 20th, ABC News announced Thursday morning. — Roberts has not been co-hosting the show since August 30, when she left to begin treatment for the rare blood disorder MDS.

Discussion: Yahoo! Good Morning America, TVNewser, The Wrap, Mediaite, NY Daily News and USA Today

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: ex-police officer charged over Sun payment claims — CPS says Alan Tierney should face trial over allegations he leaked the details of two police cases to the paper in 2009 — A former Surrey police constable has been charged with two counts of misconduct in public office …

Discussion: The Independent, Associated Press, Telegraph, Huffington Post UK and BBC