Mediagazer: More Cash for Covers — Deal Gives Universal Music a Cut From Ads Alongside Videos (Ethan Smith/Wall Street Journal)

8:20 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: Media News, Joho the Blog, AdAge, Engadget and The Verge

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

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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, Business Insider, Businessweek, @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

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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 …

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

More Cash for Covers — Deal Gives Universal Music a Cut From Ads Alongside Videos — Those cover videos on YouTube could start generating some more revenue for the music industry. — VivendiSA's Universal Music Publishing Group has struck deals with Maker Studios Inc. and Fullscreen Inc. …

Discussion: Billboard, Tubefilter, New Media Blog, Fortune and Music Week

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 …

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.

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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, The Daily Caller, @kantrowitz, @imavip and @nathanwurtzel

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 …

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 …

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