Mediagazer: Six journalists arrested in fresh phone hacking probe (Sinead O'Carroll/TheJournal.ie)

8:20 AM ET, February 13, 2013

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jonah Lehrer earns $20,000 honorarium for talking about plagiarism at Knight lunch — At a talk this afternoon in Miami, Jonah Lehrer acknowledged his plagiarism and fabrications and talked about how he hopes to redeem his reputation. Lehrer read prepared remarks and answered questions …

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Jonah Lehrer falls into familiar pattern, fails to face his reckoning — In recent years, though certainly not recently, many conference attendees have heard Jonah Lehrer speak about how our brains and our personal interactions affect our behaviours in interesting and surprising ways.

Erik Wemple:

Knight foundation president: Lehrer's $20,000 not controversial — Poynter reported earlier today that disgraced ex-science reporter/cerebral guy Jonah Lehrer received $20,000 for a speech that he gave today at a Knight Foundation seminar. The news prompted its share of Twitterrage:

Discussion: Forbes, @chronsciguy, @jwpiergrossi, @peterfhart and The Huffington Post

Sam Thielman / Adweek:

How Comcast Scared Up All That GE Cash — Comcast on Tuesday announced it will pay $16.7 billion to acquire the 49 percent stake in NBCUniversal owned by General Electric, a move that accelerates the buyout well ahead of analysts' expectations. — The Philadelphia-based cable giant …

Steve Schaefer / Forbes:
Comcast Beats Estimates, Boosts Dividend And Buys The Rest Of NBC From GE

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian, Media & Entertainment, CNET, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television …, The Wrap and Hillicon Valley

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Comcast Will Buy Rest of GE's NBC Stake for $16.7 Billion

Discussion: Fast Company and DealBook

Comcast Corporation:
Comcast to Acquire General Electric's 49% Common Equity Ownership Interest in NBCUniversal

Discussion: VentureBeat, TVNewser, Media Decoder, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, bizjournals, The Next Web, AdAge, paidContent, @bobbymacreports, Reuters, The Verge, Forbes and Comcast>>Investor Relations

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Jimmy Savile: 31 victims of alleged abuse sue BBC and star's estate — At least another 60 compensation claims over disgraced presenter expected to follow — More than 30 victims of alleged sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile have lodged civil claims for compensation against the BBC and the estate of the disgraced Jim'll Fix It presenter.

Discussion: BBC and Yorkshire Post

Julia Angwin:

Why I'm unfriending you on Facebook — I have 666 friends on Facebook. By next week, I hope to have none. — I am going to spend this week “unfriending” all of my Facebook friends because I have come to believe that Facebook cannot provide me the level of privacy that I need.

Discussion: @jguynn, @stevenlevy, PandoDaily, @juliaangwin, @felixgillette, @penenberg, @jessepesta and @qhardy

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Erik Huggers: Intel will launch its own TV service this year — Intel Media boss Erik Huggers finally broke his silence about the company's TV plans at All Things Digital's Dive into Media conference in Dana Point, California Tuesday, confirming reports from GigaOM and others that the company …

Discussion: AllThingsD, AllThingsD, MacRumors, AdAge, Adweek, CNET, The Next Web, The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Intel confirms Internet TV service and set-top box are on the way

Discussion: TechCrunch

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Hearst's David Carey on How People Are Still Reading Magazines. Really! — Despite what you may have read online, the print magazine business is actually pretty good. — Or so says Hearst Magazines President David Carey. — “A lot of magazines get tarred with a lot of the anxiety around …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Hearst: Women finally embracing online magazines thanks to 7-inch screens

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Startup Plympton acquires DailyLit to deliver serial fiction in a digital age — Plympton, the serial fiction startup launched last year by former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee, is acquiring DailyLit, a site that delivers books in installments by email and RSS.

Discussion: Plympton

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Jim Roberts, Reuters' newest hire, on the digital side of the NYT, paywall math, and next steps — Judging by his pace on Twitter, little has changed for Jim Roberts over the last three weeks. The links to news near and far, on topics both timely and unearthed, are coming as rapid as ever.

Discussion: Politico, @nytfridge, FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest, @nycjim, @justinnxt and Reuters

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Financial Times Turns 125 — The Financial Times marks its 125th anniversary today, and, befitting the challenges facing newspapers today, the celebration will have practical elements. An ad campaign with the somber tagline “Still guiding the way for global business” is breaking in print and online.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and NetNewsCheck Latest

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

HBO Adds AirPlay To Stream HBO GO From iPhones And iPads To The Biggest Screen In The Home — Over the last several years, HBO has been making its streaming video product more attractive to users by adding more and more devices that users can stream its programming on.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Home Media Magazine, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Adweek and Broadcasting & Cable

Sinead O'Carroll / TheJournal.ie:

Six journalists arrested in fresh phone hacking probe — POLICE IN LONDON have arrested six journalists as part of an investigation into the incidence of phone hacking by media personnel. — Detectives say they have identified a further suspected conspiracy by a number of employees …

Discussion: The Independent, CNN, Associated Press, @skymartinbrunt, @kevin_maguire, @dannyshawbbc, Guardian, BBC and UK News and Opinion

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

How the media scene has changed in Colorado since the Rocky Mountain News folded — The media landscape in Colorado has changed dramatically in the past five years. — In 2008, Colorado's main content providers were the same traditional print and broadcast news organizations that had been providing the state with news for decades.

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild