Mediagazer: Government presses on with Parliament-backed press regulation plan - but offers compromise on libel arbitration (Press Gazette)

1:35 PM ET, October 8, 2013

Top News:

Government presses on with Parliament-backed press regulation plan - but offers compromise on libel arbitration — The Government has rejected a press regulation plan put forward by newspaper and magazine publishers and is instead press ahead with the ratification of a Royal Charter …

Discussion: Guardian

Guardian:

Press plans for post-Leveson regulation rejected by ministers — Privy council delays final decision on royal charter as efforts to find common ground are dogged by distrust — Plans on how to regulate the press industry have been delayed until later this month after a difficult meeting …

Discussion: @arusbridger, Guardian, Kirk LaPointe's …, @lisaocarroll, @newsviewer, @richpeppiatt, Media Law Prof Blog, Spectator and The Drum

Paul Vale / UK - The Huffington Post:

Maria Miller Rejects Newspaper Industry Proposal For Royal Charter On Press Regulation — The Royal Charter proposal put forward by the newspaper industry to regulate the press was rejected by Culture Secretary Maria Miller on Tuesday. — The Minister said that the plans put forward …

Discussion: Guardian, @skynewsbreak and @bbcnormans

Hugh Grant / Guardian:
Ignore the press barons: a royal charter is not ‘state regulation’

Discussion: @hackedoffhugh and CNN

Steve Volk / Philadelphia Magazine:

Exclusive: Internal Documents Tell the Tale of Inquirer Editor Bill Marimow's Dismissal — Inquirer editor Bill Marimow was fired after many months of infighting with publisher Bob Hall, according to internal documents anonymously delivered this afternoon to Philadelphia magazine.

Philly.com:
Inquirer editor fired because of “philosophical differences” over direction of newspaper

Discussion: The New York Observer, @bydanielvictor, @nycjim, @bydanielvictor and @mathewi

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BBC Launches Playlister, A Social Music Service With Spotify, YouTube And Deezer To Tag Tracks Heard On BBC — On the heels of the BBC ramping up its iPlayer on-demand video and music player as the go-to place for all its digital assets, the UK's public broadcaster is also gearing up to take its music service up another notch.

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, Softpedia News, Digital Spy, Engadget, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and blogs.ft.com

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

The BBC announces BBC Store, letting you pay to download and keep shows — It has been a tumultuous twelve months at the BBC, with scandal after scandal finally leading to a new Director General in the form of Lord Tony Hall who took over at the helm in April, replacing George Entwistle who had held fort for just fifty days.

Discussion: Telegraph, BBC, @peterbazalgette, broadcastnow.co.uk and @psmith

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Tony Hall: BBC should give public access to shows online before broadcast

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Trust.org, Pocket-lint, TheMediaBriefing.com, Charlie Beckett and Spectator

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Has putting up a paywall at The Guardian become a moral imperative rather than a choice? — The Guardian newspaper in Britain is one of the most prominent papers without a paywall, and some media-industry observers argue that it should erect one soon or potentially lose its ability to create great journalism.

Discussion: @moorehn, @beppesevergnini and @ali_gharib

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Fox, Sinclair and Local TV file suit against Aereo in Utah — The fight over Aereo is moving to Utah. On Monday afternoon, Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group and Local TV filed suit in federal court in Utah against Aereo, the start-up company that streams broadcast TV signals to consumers via the Internet.

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Plagiarism Today

Stephen Gandel / Fortune:

Twitter's shady accounting — Why is Twitter using the same accounting tricks that have been criticized so many times before? — FORTUNE - When it comes to its bottom line, Twitter would like potential investors to put on some heavily tinted rose-colored glasses.

Discussion: New Statesman, Bloomberg, Computerworld, @shannybasar, @fortunemagazine, @jeffjohnroberts, @mccarthyryanj, ZDNet and The Reformed Broker

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Boston Globe plans Facebook-like ‘stream of content’ — In late 2011 the Boston Globe (BostonGlobe.com) became the first major news site to implement responsive site, with the website resizing to suit the screen size it is viewed on. Fewer than two years on and the site, which has a paywall …

Discussion: @niemanlab

Press Gazette:

Sun showbiz editor Gordon Smart takes charge at Scottish edition ahead of independence vote — Sun Showbiz editor Gordon Smart is being promoted to editor of the Scottish Sun, taking over from Andrew Harries, to lead the paper's coverage in the run-up to the vote on Scottish Independence in April 2014.

Discussion: Guardian

Max Blau / Mashable:

How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy — Steve Cooper didn't expect much from Spotify. — When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band's frontman didn't have high hopes about the streaming music service.

Jon Lund / GigaOM:

Why tablet magazines are a failure — “We're starting a new magazine,” the entrepreneur told me. “We have a potent niche to cover, and advertisers are dying for us to deliver interactive ads.” — Another woman I met with wanted to launch a tablet magazine about renewable energy.

Discussion: @travelfish, @bdomenech, mUmBRELLA, Nxtblog and TeleRead

Bloomberg:

iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014 — Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …

Discussion: GigaOM, Globe and Mail, TechCrunch, TUAW, SlashGear, Digital Spy, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, The Next Web, App Advice, Engadget and hypebot

Bob Cohn / The Atlantic Online:

Old-Media Values in New-Media Venues — “Fast, hungry, and loosely edited” doesn't cut it anymore. — Once upon a time, there was old media. It was reported, edited, top-edited, copy-edited, and fact-checked. It was good. — And there was new media.

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts, @kategannon, @kimkalunian, @boraz, @sampricew, @megangarber, @tcarmody, @tcarmody and @jayrosen_nyu

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

App data company App Annie expands into ebook analytics for publishers and authors — Authors and publishers need to know how and where their books are selling in order to target readers and time promotions. Yet keeping track of and analyzing all the data that comes in from retailers …

Discussion: VentureBeat, GalleyCat and TechCrunch

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Beats says its new Beats Music streaming service will launch ‘within the next few months’ in the US — Beats will launch its long-awaited music streaming service, Beats Music, “within the next few months” in the United States. Luke Wood, president and COO of the company …

Discussion: Softpedia News, AppleInsider, The Verge, PhoneArena, MacRumors, SlashGear, App Advice and 9to5Mac

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Media Matters Gets Some Right-Wing Competition — A new group called TruthRevolt, run by radio host Ben Shapiro, launched Monday with calls to boycott Ritz Crackers if it doesn't stop its sponsorship of Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC. — A nonprofit group that bills itself as a right-wing version …

Discussion: TruthRevolt.org, TheBlaze.com, The Huffington Post and The Raw Story

Hilary Mason:

What Mugshots Mean For Public Data — The New York Times has a story this morning on the growing use of mugshot data for, essentially, extortion. These sites scrape mugshots off of public records databases, use SEO techniques to rank highly in Google searches for people's names …