Mediagazer: The Comment Paradox — Everybody hates comments. (Charlie Warzel/BuzzFeed)

12:55 PM ET, May 5, 2013

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Repairing the Credibility Cracks — THE scandal that exploded 10 years ago last week was epic, as world-class as the newspaper where it happened. — Jayson Blair, a young Times reporter, lied and faked and cheated his way through story after story — scores of them, for years.

Discussion: @carloslozadawp, @jeffjarvis and Pressing Issues

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Howard Kurtz Apologizes For Jason Collins Column After Firing — Howard Kurtz addressed one of the most notorious foibles in media in recent days: his own, which led to his firing from the Daily Beast. — Kurtz was fired from the Daily Beast after he penned an erroneous column …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter and @jayrosen_nyu

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Why Did Howard Kurtz Take Such Large Role In Obscure Site?

Discussion: Politico, Gawker, @mlcalderone, FishbowlNY, Slate and Pressing Issues

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

The Comment Paradox — Everybody hates comments. Yet they're more popular than ever. — Via: static.blog.chartbeat.com — Online, comments have never been more popular or more maligned. Just this week Sports Illustrated had to turn off commenting on Jason Collins' coming-out piece.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A community news co-op, aiming to build a replicable model, moves a step closer to reality — It was as incongruous a situation as I could imagine. April 19 was one of the most gripping news days we have ever experienced in Massachusetts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the suspected marathon bombers, was in hiding.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

How @breakingnews keeps news junkies current in a crisis — General manager Cory Bergman talks about his team's process, the Boston bombings, and the importance of the gut check — Lots of people follow @breakingnews on Twitter — the account and the breakingnews.com website and mobile apps …

Jeffrey Hermes / Nieman Journalism Lab:

When the media — traditional or new — gets a suspect wrong, what are the legal ramifications? — Editor's note: Our friends at Harvard's Digital Media Law Project have taken a look at the legal implications of the sort of erroneous reporting — in both traditional and in social media …

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

In Malaysia, online election battles take a nasty turn — (Reuters) - Ahead of Malaysia's elections on Sunday, independent online media say they are being targeted in Internet attacks which filter content and throttle access to websites, threatening to deprive voters of their main source of independent reporting.

Discussion: Access Blog, GlobalPost and The Verge

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

U.K. Publishers Hit Book Sales Record for 2012 Amid Digital Growth — Spending on printed and digital books rose 4 percent to more than $5.1 billion, with “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “Hunger Games” among the bestsellers. — LONDON - British publishers brought in their highest-ever annual sales in 2012 …

Alex Kantrowitz / Digiday:

Behind Reddit's Ambivalent Embrace of Advertising — Sitting at the helm of the Internet's newest social juggernaut, Reddit general manager Erik Martin has a tough task on his hands. He is charged with simultaneously turning Reddit's 4.5 billion monthly pageviews (by its count) …

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Those immobile newspaper companies — Only 22 percent of a big sample even offer mobile products — One of the truisms of digital journalism, and one that happens to be true, is that mobile is a big part of the future of news, if it isn't the future. — The latest Pew “State of the Media” …

Peter Gelling / GlobalPost:

American journalist likely held by Syrian government — BOSTON, Mass. — After a five-month investigation inside Syria and the wider Middle East, GlobalPost and the family of missing American journalist James Foley now believe the Syrian government is holding him in a detention center near Damascus.

Discussion: Poynter, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, The Lede, JSOnline and CBS Boston

Ivan Moraes Filho / Free Press:

Brazilian Reformers Launch Campaign for Better Media — If you've ever watched television in Brazil, you would think that the country has no ethnic or cultural diversity. Most Brazilian TV announcers and actors look the same and speak with a similar accent.