Mediagazer: Mark Thompson: more financial scrutiny could undermine BBC (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

9:50 AM ET, September 25, 2013

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Lloyd's List, the world's oldest newspaper, to give up on print — Lloyd's List, which lays claim to be the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, is to become a totally digital entity by the end of this year. — The paper, founded in 1734, is regarded as the leading news …

Discussion: Lloyd's List, Informa News and The Huffington Post

Suzanne LaBarre / Popular Science:

Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments — Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why. — Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off. — It wasn't a decision we made lightly.

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

If Popular Science cares about science, why not try to fix comments instead of killing them? — Popular Science magazine says it is shutting down comments because they are “bad for science,” but what's really bad for science is closing off a potential avenue for informed debate around the topics the site is writing about.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, GigaOM and FishbowlNY

Liam Corcoran / Wannabe Hacks:

EXCLUSIVE - Guardian and Cardiff scrap plans for Journalism MA — The Guardian and Cardiff University have scrapped their plans to launch a journalism masters degree. — There was much publicity last year when the joint venture, for a course in Journalism with Digital Media …

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

A Comcast-Fox Deal for Catalog TV Rights Could Hurt Netflix — Potential Fox-Comcast pact portends a troubling trend for SVOD biz — With three Emmy statuettes now on its mantle, this should be a carefree time at Netflix. Were it only that simple. — A Wall Street Journal story hit …

Discussion: @pkafka, @simonowens and Yahoo! News

P.J. Bednarski / mediapost.com:
Iger Sees Little Cord-Cutting, Says Netflix is Good, Not Dominant

Discussion: MediaPost, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Home Media Magazine and Deadline.com

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

TheGrill: Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia - 'Cable's an Inefficient Packaging System' — Aereo — which has drawn the legal ire of networks for providing their content via tiny antennas — has been painted as a potential killer of the television and cable industries.

Discussion: Media Money … and Softpedia News

Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Aereo Expands to Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and San Antonio

Discussion: Variety, CNET, Digital Journal, Broadcast, multichannel.com/rss, Radio & Television …, VentureBeat and Variety

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mark Thompson: more financial scrutiny could undermine BBC — Former director general also questions whether trust chairman Lord Patten's call for cuts in senior managers is a new initiative — Former BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned that giving the National Audit Office greater access …

Christopher Arns / Sacramento Business Journal:

California governor signs anti-paparazzi bill into law — The Kim Kardashians of the world can rest easy now that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed an anti-paparazzi bill into law. Senate Bill 606, authored by Los Angeles Democrat Kevin De León, would protect the children of public figures …

Discussion: Associated Press, Business Standard, Los Angeles Times and Celebrity-gossip.net

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa / New York Times:

Tina Brown Goes Global — NEW YORK — The evolving and shifting global women's movement is about to get more crowded and more star-powered as Tina Brown, the storied magazine editor who has decided to leave publishing, takes her Women in the World celebrity-studded show out into the world.

Discussion: @blakehounshell, @dylanbyers, @saramorrison, @charlesrollet1 and @mckaycoppins

Agence France-Presse:

Morocco journalist charged with inciting ‘terrorism’ — A Moroccan journalist arrested last week for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video threatening Morocco has been charged with defending and inciting “terrorism”, his lawyers said on Wednesday. Ali Anouzla, director of the Arabic version …

Discussion: Reuters

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Jeff Bezos: Washington Post Purchase ‘Is A Personal Investment’ — Jeff Bezos spoke out about buying the Washington Post on television for the first time on Wednesday's “New Day.” — Speaking to CNN correspondent Dan Simon, he said that that he was hopeful about the road ahead and his ability to contribute to the organization.

Discussion: Today, CNN, The Verge, Poynter and ABC News

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. Challenges Angelina Jolie Stunt Double's Wiretapping Lawsuit — The company looks to stop the first claim brought in the United States by an alleged hacking victim and points to the activity happening in the U.K. in the ongoing hacking scandal. — Late on Friday afternoon last week …

Discussion: @randlight, @martin_hickman and Press Gazette

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

AOL CEO Leads Charge to Pry Ad Dollars From TV — Automated Ad Exchanges Are Key to AOL Strategy to Woo TV Dollars to Online Video — AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong stood on stage Monday amid thumping music and arty projections, once again playing cheerleader for an online video industry …

Discussion: AdAge

Ted Johnson / Variety:

FCC to Propose Rule That May Limit Media Ownership — The never-ending debate over media consolidation this week will focus on an esoteric rule that involving how the FCC calculates whether groups like Sinclair, Univision and Fox meet or exceed caps on station ownership.

Al Jazeera English:

Egypt shuts down Brotherhood newspaper — Office of Freedom and Justice daily raided and contents seized, days after court ordered movement's funds frozen. — Egyptian authorities have shut down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice newspaper in Cairo.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Reuters, Gulf News and Agence France-Presse

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Roku updates its set-top box line with new features and sweetheart content deals — Roku is today refreshing its family of set-top streaming boxes with a modest set of improvements and new features. The Roku 3 remains unchanged as the company's flagship box, but every model beneath it has been refreshed …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Bloomberg, GigaOM, Variety and Wired

Jack Shafer:

New York's attorney general should battle real crime instead of fake online reviews — “Jack Shafer's latest column is his absolute BEST! Ever!” — New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman made Page One news yesterday, Sept. 23, in the New York Times with his announcement …

Discussion: Consumerist, ZDNet and VentureBeat

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

No new TV viewers or newspaper subscribers are being born, BuzzFeed president says — Speaking at a NewsCred conference last week, BuzzFeed President Jon Steinberg talked about his theory that content, and the ways it is distributed, will be “completely decoupled, I would say, in the next five years.”

Discussion: Guardian, @mallarytenore, @noirinhegarty, @rajunarisetti, @stuartdredge and @dianaruggontv

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

AllThingsD and the limits of the personal franchise news model — A few breakout stars don't signal a general power shift in journalism — A couple of weeks ago, Felix Salmon asked: — “Can Rupert Murdoch hold on to Kara Swisher?” — Well, now we have our answer.

Discussion: @felixsalmon, @karaswisher, @emilybell, @ampressman, @mathewi and @deanstarkman

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Spanish journalist missing in Syria — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas in Syria. The special correspondent for the Barcelona-based El Periódico was kidnapped by rebel jihadi fighters on September 4 near the city of Hama …

Discussion: Fox News, Digital Journal, Associated Press, Guardian and Agence France Presse

Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:

“International Herald Tribune” to become “International New York Times” on Oct. 15 — Date Officially Set for International Herald Tribune Rebranding — The Twitter account @IHTComms let the cat out of the bag last week. But today, it was officially confirmed …

Discussion: Channel NewsAsia