Mediagazer: In lawsuit with publishers, open textbook startup Boundless hits back (Ki Mae Heussner/paidContent)

5:55 AM ET, February 15, 2013

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John M. Broder / New York Times:

That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Conflicting Assertions Over an Electric Car Test Drive — Let me get this out of the way up front: This blog post will not be the definitive word on the contentious subject of a Times article in Sunday's Automobiles section. It's just an early effort to put some claims and counterclaims out there, while I continue to look into it.

Discussion: Joho the Blog, AdAge, Engadget and The Verge

Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Tesla vs. The New York Times: Everyone's A Media Company Now

Discussion: GigaOM, Forbes, VentureBeat, @sulliview, @gartenberg, @bobbiejohnson, @xeni, @sdkstl, Jalopnik, CNET, Engadget and Wired

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Elon Musk publishes charts and maps to back up his claim that the New York Times lied in a Tesla review

Discussion: New York Magazine, Businessweek, TechCrunch, @emilybell and @emilybell

Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Jayson Blair got $3,000 to speak at an ethics forum in 2009 — In the fall of 2009, Edward Wasserman invited disgraced journalist Jayson Blair to speak at Washington and Lee University's Journalism Ethics Institute. The title of his talk was “Lessons Learned.” — Did people protest it?

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
It's Time to Give Journalistic Criminals Like Jonah Lehrer the Journalistic Death Penalty

Discussion: mediabistro.com, The Corsair, The Awl, Los Angeles Times, @rupertmyers, @omars81, ArtsBeat, Guardian and MediaShift

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim — In a major development in the bitter court fight over the founding of the Huffington Post, a New York judge has for the second time refused the request of media moguls Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer to dismiss the case.

Andrew Pugh / PressGazette:

Trinity's ‘Newsroom 3.0’ plan rolls out nationwide — Journalists working across all Trinity Mirror's regional papers are bracing themselves for the introduction of a new working model called “Newsroom 3.0”. — The new model was originally trialled in the publisher's North Wales newsroom …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Nate Silver: I might stop blogging if it influences election results — New York Times statistician Nate Silver told an audience at Washington University this week that he might stop writing his influential FiveThirtyEight blog were it to start influencing election results.

Discussion: Student Life, AllThingsD, The Daily Caller, @kantrowitz, @imavip and @nathanwurtzel

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of zero and The New York Times — Perhaps zero is the loneliest number. — That's the number The New York Times Co. — the United States' second largest newspaper company — ended up with 2012, as it reported revenues last week. The most accurate number …

Discussion: Crikey and @jayrosen_nyu

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

The AP's Budding Ad Business — This is the era of going direct to consumer. From HBO to brands in general, companies that rely on intermediaries are now forging direct relationships with people. — The Associated Press is no different. Its primary syndication business …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

For CNN, Cruise Ship Coverage by ‘Air, Land and Sea’ — There are a number of ways to get ahead in the cable news world. One way is partisan talk about the news, as exemplified by shows on MSNBC and Fox News. Another way is personality-based — think Bill O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough.

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, AdAge, New York Magazine, @gaberivera and Random Pixels

Ki Mae Heussner / paidContent:

In lawsuit with publishers, open textbook startup Boundless hits back — In its ongoing lawsuit with three of the biggest textbook publishers, open textbook startup Boundless is down, but by no means is it out. — Last spring, the Boston-based startup said it had raised $8 million …

Vikram Dodd / Guardian:

Whistleblowers and press ‘threatened by proposed new police powers’ — Investigative journalism at risk from government plan to weaken protection for writers and their sources, warn campaigners — The government is proposing to make it easier for the police to seize confidential material from journalists …

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Time Inc., the Unwanted Party Guest Being Pushed Out the Door — How toxic have print assets become? This toxic: Media companies have begun to quarantine them. — On Wednesday, Time Inc., the largest magazine publisher in the country, found itself at the wrong end of a 10-foot pole.

Discussion: The Corsair, Los Angeles Times, eMedia Vitals and Guardian