Mediagazer: In Egypt, an unhappy medium (Evan Hill/Al Jazeera America)

3:15 PM ET, October 8, 2013

Top News:

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

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Government gives press three days to get behind regulation plans — Maria Miller rejects industry's proposals in move that could result in some newspapers setting up their own watchdog — The government has given the newspaper industry three days to get behind its plans for press regulation …

Fraser Nelson / Spectator:

Sorry, Maria Miller. We still won't sign — The very fact that a Cabinet member has stood up in the House of Commons to make a statement on the future of newspapers suggests something going rather wrong in our democracy. For three centuries, newspapers have not been toys in the political train set.

Discussion: @alexmassie, @douglascarswell, @leshinton and @make_trouble

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

Discussion: @hackedoffhugh and CNN

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

Discussion: Guardian

Paul Vale / UK - The Huffington Post:
Maria Miller Rejects Newspaper Industry Proposal For Royal Charter On Press Regulation

Discussion: Guardian, @skynewsbreak and @bbcnormans

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, Engadget, Digital Spy, 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, TheMediaBriefing.com, Pocket-lint, Charlie Beckett and Spectator

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

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

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

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

BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed Announces 2013 - 2014 Michael Hastings National Security Fellow — Gregory D. Johnsen to join as year-long fellow — New York, October 8, 2013 — BuzzFeed announced today it has selected Gregory D. Johnsen as the inaugural 2013 - 2014 Michael Hastings National Security Reporting Fellow.

Discussion: @gregorydjohnsen and @jwherrman

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Col Allan returns to the ‘Post’ newsroom, as promised — “He's baaaaaack.” — That's how an insider described the return of New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who officially returned to the tabloid's newsroom this morning, according to several sources, following …

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.

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

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Why the Globe and Mail is ‘incentivising newsroom staff’ — The Canadian national newspaper rewards ‘half a dozen’ staff for creating compelling content that results in paywall sign ups — Copyright: Image by vonsorb on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Canada's Globe and Mail …

Discussion: @hermida and Big News Network.com

Evan Hill / Al Jazeera America:

In Egypt, an unhappy medium … CAIRO, Egypt — In early September, local journalist Ahmed Abou Draa went looking for a relative he believed was being held in a military facility in the northern Sinai Peninsula. Instead, Draa himself was arrested, held for investigation, and sent before a military tribunal.

Discussion: @thegeopolitico, @jpmarthoz, @scottlong1980, @ase, @evanchill and @daliaezzat_, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

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