Mediagazer: Sun journalist denies dishonestly receiving MP's phone (Press Association)

7:40 AM ET, November 15, 2013

Top News:

This is not your father's ‘Wall Street Journal’ — “It's among the more glamorous events that The Wall Street Journal hosts every year,” said Gerard Baker, the paper's managing editor, last Wednesday evening. — He had the attention of several hundred well-dressed guests who were between bites …

Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:
Wall Street Journal & Reuters Chinese sites blocked in China

Discussion: @paulmozur, Cision and Business Insider, Thanks:@williswee

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

Discussion: @taos

brian abelson:

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 and @alvinschang

Felix Salmon:
How the NYT neglects business journalism

Discussion: @patrickgower, @seythal and @ivorytowerjourn

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, Gigaom, Forbes, Bookseller news, The Week, Businessweek, Search Engine Land, Online NewsHour, CNET and Talking New Media

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 and Motherboard

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, @grafikmag and The Verge

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: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wrap, Variety, Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Press Association:

Sun journalist denies dishonestly receiving MP's phone — Nick Parker pleads not guilty to receiving Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh's stolen mobile phone and looking at its contents — A Sun journalist, Nick Parker, has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the alleged theft of an MP's mobile phone in 2010.

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

Alastair Campbell / Guardian:

How journalism can rebuild its reputation — Journalism and democracy: grounds for optimism in the face of the future? is the second of two lectures by Tony Blair's former director of communications as Cambridge University Humanitas visiting professor of media

Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

John Oliver Leaving Daily Show to Launch ‘Topical Comedy Series’ on HBO — It was only a matter of time. John Oliver's widely-respected gig as fill-in host for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show this past summer has landed him his own show, to be shown on HBO starting next year.

Discussion: Deadline.com, TVbytheNumbers, The Huffington Post, @dorseyshaw, The Verge, Variety, Speakeasy, HitFix, Capital New York and Broadcasting & Cable

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

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.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust — In what it claims is “the first external assessment” of the publishers' new press regulator, the Media Standards Trust (MST) argues that it satisfies only 12 of the 38 recommendations in the Leveson report.

Discussion: New York Times

D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:

Responding to reader requests, more publishers add iPhone support to their Newsstand apps — Is it really wise to add iPhone support for a digital magazine designed for tablets? — It's nice to be wanted if you are a magazine publisher. So, responding to remarks made in reviews inside the App Store …

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 …

Discussion: USA Today, Nieman Journalism Lab, Beyond Search, Folio, @buzzfeednews, @adriennelaf, MediaPost, AllFacebook, @pewinternet, @pewjournalism, TheBlaze.com, TechCrunch, @sulliview, @conradhackett, @pewresearch, @savionline, Mashable and @reedalbergotti

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
About a fifth of Facebook and Twitter users often get news from newspapers, too

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and @pewinternet

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Rieder: Why CBS must come clean about Benghazi report — It's a challenge for CBS News — and an opportunity. The network has to thoroughly investigate what went so terribly wrong with the ill-fated 60 Minutes segment on the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Nation

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

Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:

Wikileaks drums up coverage of a secretive trade agreement — Wikileaks drums up coverage of a secretive trade agreement — Last week, The New York Times got flack for its editorial on the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement—a multinational, free-trade agreement that a group …

Discussion: Michael Geist Blog, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post and Forbes

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Blogger threatened with 10-year prison sentence for posting public official's phone number — The city of Boston has a problem with public scrutiny. — Last year, the city agreed to pay $170,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man who was arrested for using his cellphone to record the actions of Boston police officers in a public park.

Discussion: @flexyourrights, Photography is Not a Crime and Techdirt

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.