Mediagazer: If Katie Couric is the answer, what's the question? (Jack Shafer)

1:35 PM ET, November 29, 2013

Top News:

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

100 leading figures urge newspaper publishers to accept royal charter — More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter system of press regulation.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Kirk LaPointe's …, @paul__johnson, Guardian, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Spectator, Guardian, BBC and Guardian

The Huffington Post UK: British Newspaper Editors Described As ‘Angry Donkeys’ By Former Sun Boss David Yelland

Andreas Whittam Smith / The Independent:
How the Leveson Report stopped the press in its tracks: One year on, the forensic cataloguing …

Discussion: @nujbelfast and @mscott

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. to ‘dramatically’ expand native ad business — Time Inc. is going native. — CEO Joe Ripp plans to “dramatically” expand into the so-called native ad business and has issued a request for proposals to find a partner that will help scale up new native ads on a wide variety of platforms.

Thanks:@steverubel

Human Rights Watch:

Iraq: Wave of Journalist Killings — Security Forces Fail to Investigate, but Arrest Reporters for Defamation — (Baghdad) - Four journalists have been assassinated in Mosul, the capital of Iraq's Ninewa Province, since early October 2013. Iraqi security officials have said they were investigating …

Discussion: @astroehlein, @samerhrw, @sarahleah1, Guardian and Aswat Al Iraq

Jack Shafer:

If Katie Couric is the answer, what's the question? — Web publishing — never a diffident business — has been calling attention to itself all week long. Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, whose forte as boss has been the shimmering acquisition (Summly, Tumblr, Xobni, Rockmelt …

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

The Guardian Now More Popular In US Than UK — LONDON — It started out as The Manchester Guardian in 1821 and had since become a national newspaper. But, this fall, The Guardian crossed another geographical rubicon - it became more popular in the US than its native UK.

Discussion: @jimpoco, Thanks:@steverubel

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

At The Miami Herald, maybe newsroom place still matters — When The Miami Herald left its home on Biscayne Bay, many in the newsroom were wistful. The newsroom had been right in the heart of downtown and home to memories and legends. Two movies had been shot in the building: Absence of Malice …

Arif Durrani / Media Week:

Metro MD Linda Grant leaves amid group restructure — Linda Grant, the managing director of Metro newspaper, is set to leave the business she has led for nearly three years tomorrow, as part of a wider restructure. — Linda Grant: ‘I am immensely proud of all that we have achieved’

Discussion: Guardian and Brand Republic

Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:

Lady Gaga Documents ‘Do What U Want’ in ‘BitTorrent Bundle’ — Project with ‘Vice’ includes making-of photos and video — The video for Lady Gaga and R. Kelly's duet “Do What U Want,” which appears on the former's new record Artpop, will see release on December 3rd through a unique …

Discussion: Entertainmentwise, TechHive, NME and The Wrap

Maggie Michael / Associated Press:

Egypt arrests prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah under new anti-protest law — CAIRO — Egyptian security forces arrested a prominent political activist Thursday night over inciting a demonstration in defiance of a new law heavily restricting protests in the country, his family said.

Discussion: @salmasaid, Middle East and BBC

Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

How AP builds deep-dive Explore pages from the archives — The interactive features, the latest of which marks the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination, are largely ‘to support strategic marketing efforts’ — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Discussion: @raju

Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg:

Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …

Discussion: TechCrunch, @bloombergnews, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, @danieleran, App Advice and Softpedia News

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:

Why Netflix Would Face Resistance Breaking Into France — The market reportedly ripe for the streaming service's next invasion boasts huge barriers to entry — A nation packed with cinephiles and avid consumers of U.S. drama imports, France seems like a natural fit for a service like Netflix.