Mediagazer: Facebook Managing Editor Steps Down, Says Site 'Doesn't Need Reporters' (MediaShift)

11:50 AM ET, March 21, 2013

Top News:

Facebook Managing Editor Steps Down, Says Site 'Doesn't Need Reporters' — Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the social media giant next month. Speaking before a crowded audience at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication …

Discussion: Fast Company, @lucymarcus, Mashable!, @mediatwit, @rajunarisetti, @lpintak and NetNewsCheck Latest

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch Calls U.K. Press Regulation Deal A ‘Holy Mess’ — He also lauds the defeat of new Australian media rules and joins his “Sun” tabloid in attacking the British government led by David Cameron. — LONDON - News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch on Thursday continued …

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch, Guardian and @davidfolkenflik

Emily Bell / Guardian:

The press regulation charter is illiterate about the internet — The Leveson-inspired draft bill deals with the past, not the future, of the press in failing to address the myriad ways we now receive ‘news’ — If Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has sat in as many conferences on the …

Greg Mitchell / The Nation:

Margaret Sullivan, an Ombud Who Cares — This article appeared in the April 8, 2013 edition of The Nation. — The first Times public editor, Daniel Okrent, raised some tough issues, such as his criticism of executive editor Bill Keller for failing to fully come to grips with the paper's misconduct in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Discussion: @froomkin, @jayrosen_nyu, @nickfoxnyt and @ggreenwald

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

How a toothbrush news site can get more visits than the Economist: More on the botnet scam — A larger picture is emerging about an online advertising scam that is reportedly soaking major brands like McDonald's and Disney for $6 million a month. The scam, which has rattled publishers and the ad industry …

Discussion: International Business Times, Digital Spy, PC Advisor, ComputerWeekly, CNET, AdAge, BBC and Businessweek

YouTube Blog:

YouTube Hits a Billion Monthly Users — In the last eight years you've come to YouTube to watch, share and fall in love with videos from all over the world. Tens of thousands of partners have created channels that have found and built businesses for passionate, engaged audiences.

Discussion: AdWords Agency Blog, Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Daily Dot, NetNewsCheck Latest, Business Insider, ClickZ, Adweek, VatorNews, BBC, SocialTimes, CNET, Engadget, C21Media, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint and hypebot

Joshua Gillin / Poynter:

Allyson Bird explains further ‘why I left the news’ — Allyson Bird, the 28-year-old author of a now-viral blog post detailing why she left journalism, explained in an e-mail interview that she battled against the realities of being asked to do more work for less pay.

Discussion: Strange Attractor, Common Sense Journalism, Change of Subject and allysonbird.com

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists attacked in Egypt over the weekend — At least 14 journalists were attacked by police and supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group outside the group's headquarters in Cairo on Saturday and Sunday, according to news reports and local journalists.

Discussion: Guardian

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post seeks blogger for Style section — The Washington Post's arts and living section, Style, is looking for a blogger, an internal announcement reads. Whoever lands this position may want to invest in a serious coffee machine: … The job “will require early mornings …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review and @lavrusik

Dan Kois / Slate: Stop Making Fun of WaPo's Blogger Job and Start Applying for It

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Three BBC Twitter accounts have been hijacked by the ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ — Update: It seems that the BBC Arabic Online and BBC Radio Ulster Twitter accounts were also hacked, though the latter of these seems to have now been brought back under the control of the BBC.

Discussion: Digital Spy, @chrishams, The Independent, Telegraph, TechRadar.com, @paulmwatson, Daily Dot, London Evening Standard, Mashable!, Huffington Post UK and The Drum

Robert X. Cringely / InfoWorld:

Here lies Web journalism, dead at the hand of the almighty advertiser — Don't know if you've noticed, but there's a hullabaloo over online ads masquerading as editorial on the Web these days. I'm here to tell you that the situation is actually much worse than you might think.

Thanks:@steverubel

Bruce Weber / New York Times:

Murrey Marder, Early McCarthy Skeptic, Dies at 93 — By certain journalistic lights, the reporter Murrey Marder was an editor's nightmare. He wrote slowly and squeezed against deadlines. He debated with editors. His articles were long, often complicated and never laid claim to stylish writing.

Discussion: Washington Post and USA Today

Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:

Why Matthew Keys is not ‘the next Aaron Swartz’ — Matthew Keys is no Aaron Swartz. But the Reuters social media producer will face decades in jail under the same law used against Swartz if convicted of helping Anonymous hack the Los Angeles Times Web site in late 2010 …

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired and Guardian