Mediagazer: Met Police's fraud squad investigating BBC pay-offs scandal (Christopher Hope/Telegraph)

6:05 AM ET, August 9, 2013

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Former HWT chairman Julian Clarke appointed News Corp Australia CEO as Kim Williams resigns — NEWS Corp Australia chief executive Kim Williams has resigned. — He has held the role since December, 2011. — He will be replaced by former The Herald and Weekly Times chairman Julian Clarke.

Discussion: Reuters, @smh, mUmBRELLA, Guardian, SINA English, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Spectator, Business Review Weekly, TheAustralian and ABC

Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:

Murdoch's News Corp empire turns on itself — After barely a month, Rupert Murdoch's journalism project is a shambles. All the Crazy Uncle features of Murdoch's management style were on display in the last week. They speak of a deeply dysfunctional corporation which has become a hotch potch …

Discussion: Guardian, The Conversation and Guardian

Margaret Simons / Guardian:
Kim Williams departure a victory for Murdoch's Australian editors

Discussion: Guardian

New Republic:

Newspapers Should Be More Like Amazon — By Julius Genachowski and Steven Waldman What Jeff Bezos can teach The Washington Post What's intriguing about Jeff Bezos, who purchased The Washington Post this week, is not that he's a digital guy or that he has a lot of money—though both certainly help …

Discussion: @stevenwaldman and @mathewi

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
What would it look like if the Times had to find a Bezos, too?

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Forbes, The Wrap, @jayrosen_nyu, @tmcgev and Business Insider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It — In the wake of Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, there was some chatter about how much runway David Karp would have had if he hadn't sold the company. — Now we know, sort of: Tumblr, which had raised $125 million since 2007, had $16.6 million in cash left when Yahoo bought it.

Discussion: Softpedia News, The Next Web, Digits and GigaOM

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Time Warner Cable Taking Bigger Hit Than CBS in PR War Over Blackout: Survey — Cable operator's consumer-perception score drops lower into negative territory while the Eye has neutral rating, according to YouGov — Consumers have increasingly negative views of both Time Warner Cable …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, CNET, The Huffington Post, Radio & Television …, B&C, Broadcasting & Cable and New York Business Journal

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
CBS, Time Warner Cable trade barbs on Day 7 of blackout

Discussion: Deadline.com, Telegraph, @matthewkeyslive, The Desk, Vulture and Inside TV

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Amid Criticism, Support for Media's ‘Watchdog’ Role Stands Out — Overview — Public evaluations of news organizations' performance on key measures such as accuracy, fairness and independence remain mired near all-time lows. But there is a bright spot among these otherwise gloomy ratings …

Discussion: Poynter, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

John McDermott / AdAge:

Vevo Developing Apple TV App for 24-7 Music Video Channel — Will Allow It to Sell Video Ads Made Specifically for Televisions — Cord-cutting millennials will soon have a new way to quench their insatiable thirst for '90s nostalgia. Music video website Vevo is developing an app …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Pocket-lint, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, App Advice, GigaOM and AppleInsider

Christopher Hope / Telegraph:

Met Police's fraud squad investigating BBC pay-offs scandal — Detectives from Scotland Yard's fraud squad are investigating senior members of the BBC's leadership over allegations of misconduct in public office, The Telegraph can disclose. — Scotland Yard launched Operation Elveden last year

Discussion: BBC, @vikramdodd, @rajunarisetti, The Independent and Guardian

Amy Hadfield / WAN-IFRA:

Italian press signs agreement with government to revitalise ailing industry — The Italian government and representatives from throughout Italy's news media industry signed an agreement on Tuesday 6 August as part of an initiative to revitalise the country's crisis-hit news publications.

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

Fox's Chase Carey calls a la carte programming ‘a fantasy’ — 21st Century Fox Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey underscored the value of sports programming and downplayed calls to end the bundling of television channels. During Fox's Investor Day presentations Thursday …

Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Fox projects growth as it invests in new channels

Discussion: Forbes, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Deadline.com and Variety

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won't be another Hacker News — When I was a computer science student in college, everyone I knew read Slashdot. Founded in 1997, the site was dedicated to “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.” It featured about a dozen short, user-submitted stories about the technology news of the day.

Discussion: Guardian and @webgard

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

NBC-GlobalPost an intriguing media partnership … An alliance with news website GlobalPost means more foreign coverage for NBC. — CONNECT — It could be the classic trade that helps both teams. And years ago, it would have been unthinkable. — News organizations joining forces was considered anathema.

Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Patch is laying off hundreds of employees on Friday — UPDATE — A Patch tipster reports: “Patch employees will learn their fate starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. on an all company call with Tim Armstrong. Managers were told last night not to discuss the layoffs with subordinates or reference them at all.”