Mediagazer: Glenn Beck: ‘I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart’ (Jamie Weinstein/The Daily Caller)

12:15 PM ET, January 22, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Dow Jones Chief Resigns In Shift by News Corp. — Lex Fenwick, the hard-driving chief executive who stumbled in his efforts to transform Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has resigned effective immediately as the company rethinks its strategy.

Discussion: JackFlack.com, Capital New York, @danwmedia, @jbenton, @nycjim and @moorehn

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Lex Fenwick out at Dow Jones

Discussion: Capital New York, Business Wire, Bloomberg, @jbenton, @stuartmillar159, @peterlauria3, @emilybell, Mediawire Daily, Media & Entertainment, AdAge, Wall Street Journal, Politico, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and Variety

Tania Branigan / Guardian:

Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership's offshore wealth — Access to the front page of newspaper's website blocked and availability of other stories intermittent — The Guardian appeared to be partially blocked in China on Wednesday after revealing that relatives …

Discussion: New York Times, @mlcalderone, Tech in Asia and The Next Web

Emily Rauhala / TIME:

CNN, BBC Reporters Covering China Activist Trial Manhandled on Live TV — Street-side tussles take place outside Beijing court where transparency campaigner Xu Zhiyong is being tried behind closed doors — BBC journalist Martin Patience lived up to his name today.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and BBC

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone-hacking trial: police defend dawn raid on Rebekah Brooks's home — Detective insists all searches are conducted without ‘fear or favour’ after jury hears officers checked baby's Moses basket — Police have defended their dawn raid on Rebekah Brooks's Oxfordshire home at the phone-hacking trial …

Discussion: Press Association, @adambienkov and Press Association

Michael Holden / Reuters:
Police searched basket of Rebekah Brooks's baby, court hears

Discussion: The Independent, Guardian and thedrum.com

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Showtime, HBO, Starz blast NPD study that says they lost subscribers — Thanks to “Homeland” and other shows, Showtime has added 1 million subscribers a year in six of the last seven years, a spokesperson says. — Pay-TV channels HBO, Showtime and Starz are blasting a much-ballyhooed study …

Discussion: WebProNews, SlashGear, @jbflint and Engadget

TIME:
HBO and Showtime Strike Back: Subscriptions Aren't Actually Down

Discussion: The Verge

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Radio Free Europe journalists beaten, detained in Kiev protests — On Wednesday, UPI reported that two journalists have been beaten and detained in the ongoing protests in Kiev. … In a video for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty posted Wednesday, the two badly beaten men, Dmytro Barkar and Ihor Iskhakov, talk about what happened.

Discussion: UPI and Radio Free Europe/Radio …

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Ezra Klein and the early-mover disadvantage — No one knows if these new personal-franchise journalism ventures are going to work — The parade of departures of high-profile journalism talent from big newspapers, of which Ezra Klein's is the most recent, can basically be divided into two categories.

Discussion: Mediawire Daily, Gigaom, Capital New York, American Spectator and JackFlack.com

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Alliances of media stars and legacy organizations make sense, but sometimes control matters more

Discussion: The New Republic, The New Republic, The New Republic and Talking New Media

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon considering online live TV service, has approached at least three media conglomerates seeking rights to distribute their channels — Amazon Considering Online Pay TV Service — Live TV Channels Would Compete With Cable, Satellite — Amazon.com Inc. has approached big entertainment companies …

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service

Discussion: @brianstelter, BGR, Softpedia News and Pocket-lint

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Ex-AOL editor Cyndi Stivers joins Tina Brown's company — Cyndi Stivers, who saw her job as editor-in-chief of AOL.com eliminated in the upheaval at the media company late last year — after only seven months in the position — has a new gig lined up with Tina Brown's fledgling conference business.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:

Glenn Beck: ‘I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart’ — Glenn Beck made a candid admission Tuesday night. — During an appearance on Fox News' “The Kelly File,” the former Fox News host reflected on his time at the network.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Politico, @allisonkilkenny and @mckaycoppins

Reuters:

Massive Internet mishap sparks Great Firewall scrutiny in China — (Reuters) - Human error likely caused a glitch in China's Great Firewall that saw millions of Internet users ironically rerouted to the homepage of a U.S.-based company which helps people evade Beijing's web censorship, sources told Reuters.

Discussion: CNN, @jonrussell, @adampasick, CNET and NYT Bits

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Fox Will Stream Super Bowl XLVIII Free to Computers and iPads — Broadcaster to offer a ‘special preview’ of Fox Sports Go authenticated service for the NFL championship game on Feb. 2 — Fox Sports will use Super Bowl XLVIII as a showcase for its online and mobile authentication service …

Discussion: Forbes and CNET

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

BBC.com Opens Its Doors To Native Advertising — The BBC is known for its editorial integrity and, at least in the UK, its aversion to advertising. These facts would seem to make an embrace of the current “native advertising” trend difficult. But that's just what BBC Worldwide …

Discussion: @beet_tv

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

The race is on to launch an internet TV service in the US — America's first pay TV service delivered entirely over the internet is coming. The only question is who will offer it. — A slew of companies—Sony, Verizon, Apple, and Amazon—are working on television services that would take advantage …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Gigaom, @zseward, Pocket-lint and Variety

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Comcast resurrects EveryBlock in Chicago on Thursday, plans other U.S. cities later — Hyperlocal website EveryBlock to be resurrected … EveryBlock, the hyperlocal website shut down last February amid financial losses, is returning from internet limbo.

Discussion: Street Fight

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Weather Channel: DirecTV Subscribers Should Be Able to Switch, Without Penalty — The Weather Channel is ratcheting up the rhetoric in its fight to get back on DirecTV. — The leading weather TV channel, which begins a ninth day off the nation's second-largest pay TV service …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, AdAge, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable and FishbowlNY

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera English:

When mainstream media is the lunatic fringe — Digital media gives cruelty, new visibility, but does the prestige of old media give bigoted ranting respectability? — On January 8, 2014, Emma Keller, a journalist for The Guardian, wrote a column about a woman named Lisa Bonchek Adams.

Discussion: @derrelldurrett, @redlightvoices and @pankisseskafka

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Snowden: Media ‘abdicating responsibility’ — NSA leaker Edward Snowden accused NBC's “Meet The Press” and ABC's “This Week” of “abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account” because of their failure to question allegations made against him by government officials.

Discussion: New Yorker, The Huffington Post and Hit & Run

Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing.com:

News UK CEO: “A big bundle is a very efficient mechanism which works remarkably well” — News UK is unusual among newspaper groups in taking a hardline approach to digital subscriptions, eschewing metered models for an offer that provides online access to the whole bundle, or none of it.

Discussion: @raju and @hobbb, Thanks:@henryctaylor

Maria Konnikova / The New Yorker Blog:

The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You — When Jonah Berger was a graduate student at Stanford, in the early aughts, he would make a habit of reading page A2 of the Wall Street Journal, which included a list of the five most-read and the five most-shared articles of the day.

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

Guardian Preparing To Go Fully “Responsive” — The Guardian will soon overhaul its website to ensure ads, as well as editorial, adapt to work across the multitude of devices consumers use. — The publisher first launched a “responsive design” site in 2012 - a tactic a growing number …

Thanks:@beet_tv

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

The news curation game gets another entrant as the WaPo's former owner relaunches Trove — You might think the news-recommendation space is a little crowded, what with giant social networks like Twitter and Facebook as well as dedicated services like Prismatic, Zite and News360 …