Mediagazer: New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

10:15 AM ET, November 15, 2013

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The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement — This is the second in a series of two posts about pageviews. This post details some research I've conducted on the promotional correlates of the metric, while the previous post discussed the sometimes apocalyptic tone …

Discussion: @stkonrath, @jordancrusoe, @mtigas, @tcarmody, @opennews, @brianabelson, @alvinschang and Talking Biz News

Felix Salmon:

How the NYT neglects business journalism — Brian Abelson has a fantastic post about the performance of NYT articles. The main gist is that it's possible to predict with surprising accuracy how many pageviews any given NYT article is going to receive, given just a few variables like the amount …

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @patrickgower, @seythal, @ivorytowerjourn and Jack Shafer

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Kevin Delaney Tinkers With Media at Quartz — This is the second installment in a series that will profile four young executives rethinking the publishing business. This series is sponsored by Sonobi, the first and only digital advertising platform created by digital publishers for publishers.

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
A look inside the Wall Street Journal's video app toolbox

Discussion: @taos

New York Times:

British Press Freedom Under Threat — Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Discussion: Guardian and @lukeharding1968

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust

Discussion: Press Gazette and @hackedoffhugh

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Plans to Start Selling Movies Digitally Through Cable Service — Comcast Corp. is planning to start selling movies directly through its cable boxes, according to people with knowledge of its plans, a move that could boost the still nascent market considered critical in Hollywood.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Corporate Intelligence, The Wrap, Variety, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Exclusive - Comcast to sell movies for download, streaming: sources

Discussion: Gigaom and DSLreports

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Memo: It Took Three Weeks For The Washington Post's Viral Site To Become Its Biggest Blog — The Post 's Upworthy-inspired viral site, KnowMore, is already among its most popular web properties. Once again: Do not underestimate the power of the curiosity gap.

Discussion: The Switch

Natasha Vargas-Cooper / BuzzFeed:

David Miranda Is Nobody's Errand Boy — When Glenn Greenwald's 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn't understand.

Discussion: @ggreenwald

The Authors Guild:

Round One to Google: Judge Chin Finds Mass Book Digitization a Fair Use. Guild Plans Appeal. — Judge Denny Chin today ruled that Google's mass book digitization project to be a fair use, granting the company summary judgment in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild in 2005.

Discussion: Memex 1.1, Wired, ZDNet, Forbes, Businessweek, Bookseller news, The Week, Search Engine Land, Gigaom, Online NewsHour, CNET, Talking New Media and Reuters

Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Upholds Legality of Google Books: Tremendous Victory for Fair Use and the Public Interest

Discussion: New York Times, The Switch, Motherboard and Forbes

Olivier Laurent / British Journal of Photography:

French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers — To coincide with Paris Photo's opening, French newspaper Libération has chosen to remove all images from its 14 November issue in a bid to show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry …

Discussion: Guardian, The Huffington Post, @babsphoto, @grafikmag and The Verge

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the surprisingly persistent appeal of newsprint — Tonnage. The word speaks to a different age of news media when ink, bought by barrel, and newsprint, bought by the ton, ruled. Newspapers — in print — still go out to some 40 million-plus Americans and as many as 1.4 billion worldwide.

Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:

Details Emerge on Dispute Between Dish Network CEO, Directors — Lawsuit Suggests Board Members Took Issue with Charlie Ergen during LightSquared Review — Two Dish Network Corp. directors in charge of evaluating a potential Dish bid for a telecommunications firm took issue with how their committee …

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Lunch with the FT: Henry Blodget — A decade after being banned from Wall Street, the former internet analyst now runs a business website. He talks about redemption, regrets and market madness — ©James Ferguson — According to family legend, Henry Blodget's great-grandfather …

Discussion: @hblodget

UPI:

Scholastic to stop selling book that excludes Israel from map — Scholastic, the world's biggest children's book publisher, said it mistakenly omitted the state of Israel from a map in one of its books. — “Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt” ends with a map of modern Egypt and its neighboring countries, The Times of Israel said.

Discussion: International Business Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NewsMax.com and Fact-Based, In-Depth News

Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

China's Youku Tudou Trims Losses In Third Quarter — The Chinese Internet TV company says it is on track to become profitable in the fourth quarter based on a surge in mobile traffic past 300 million daily views. — Youku Tudou expects to become profitable in the fourth quarter of this year …

Discussion: PR Newswire and Variety

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Jeter Prepares to Turn a Page and Publish Many Others — Derek Jeter, the Yankees' shortstop and captain, who is nearing the final act of a golden athletic career, is ready to talk about his life after baseball. He wants to be a book publisher. — On Thursday, he is expected to announce …

Discussion: WebProNews, @smalera, @katzish, USA Today, NY Daily News and FishbowlNY

Sara Deseran / San Francisco magazine:

What's Really Happening to the Chronicle's Food Section? — The paper's managing editor Audrey Cooper clears things up. — Audrey Cooper, the managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, came to the defense of the paper yesterday when the New York Times reported that the Chronicle's lauded …

Discussion: Poynter, @sanfranmag, @jonsteinberg31, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest and Poynter

Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

On the Ethics of Data-Driven Journalism: of fact, friction and public records in a more transparent age — While ethics in journalism have been defined and upheld for decades, the context they're practiced within has shifted with changes in technology and society.

Discussion: @dbarthjones

Pew Research Journalism Project:

News Use Across Social Media Platforms — How do different social networking websites stack up when it comes to news? How many people engage with news across multiple social sites? And what are their news consumption habits on traditional platforms? As part of an ongoing examination …