Mediagazer: CBC shifting focus to digital and mobile; reducing staff, news broadcasts, in-house production (CBC News)

5:15 PM ET, June 26, 2014

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British democracy damaged by hacking scandal, politicians no longer fear newspapers — Andy Coulson's malign legacy — The downfall of David Cameron's former press secretary has damaged British democracy — ANDY COULSON was once considered David Cameron's best hire.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Newspapers fail to report the real story about phone hacking trial

Discussion: @themurdochtimes and @jackofkent

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rebekah Brooks Says She Is ‘Vindicated’ By Acquittal In Phone Hacking Trial

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, Press Gazette and Guardian

Suzanne Moore / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy

Discussion: Channel 4 News, Guardian, @rebecca_omonira, @sarahditum, @colvinius, Financial Times and The Independent

Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:

After years of shrinking ambition at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has the paper thinking global domination — In April, six months after her family sold the newspaper it had controlled for eight decades to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth walked onstage …

Discussion: The New York Observer and @jayrosen_nyu

Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest: Newspapers participating in a Washington Post pilot program to share digital content …

Sam Schechner / Bloomberg:

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's ‘Right to be Forgotten’ — Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation — The Internet is starting to forget. — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has started removing results …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Al Jazeera Gains Support In Fight For Jailed Journalists — NEW YORK — Al Jazeera executives and correspondents pledged Wednesday to keep pressure on the Egyptian government following this week's widely condemned convictions of three network journalists on spurious terrorism charges.

Discussion: TheBlot, Reuters, Guardian and TVNewser

Agence France-Presse:
Jailed Al Jazeera Reporter Donates Funds to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's Egypt Plan

Discussion: Guardian, Sky News Australia and allAfrica.com

Mohamed Badr / Matter:
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons

Discussion: Guardian, @marklotto, @readmatter, @jonamorem, @stirman, @readmatter, @tom_d_ and @fieldproducer

CBC News:

CBC shifting focus to digital and mobile; reducing staff, news broadcasts, in-house production — CBC to cut back supper-hour news, in-house productions — Corporation will have up to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020 — The CBC is shifting its priorities from television and radio to digital …

Discussion: Poynter, Toronto Star, Toronto Star, Canada NewsWire Group, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Mediacaster Magazine, Toronto Life, Huffington Post Canada, theguardian.pe.ca, CJAD 800, @lynn_coady, @cactusgipsy, @misterjohndoyle and Globe and Mail

ING:

Study: Only 20% of journalists always check their facts before publishing — 2014 Study impact of Social Media on News: more crowd-checking, less fact-checking — The Social Media Impact (#SMING14) survey conducted by ING among an international group of journalists and PR professionals shows …

Discussion: 10,000 Words, @kubremner, @tamarranicole and @stkonrath

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Time Inc. Sells Off Its Mexican Magazines to Concentrate on U.S. and U.K. — Publisher of Time and People Bought Grupo Editorial Expansión in 2005 — Ad Age Small Agency Awards — Time Inc., the owner of People, Time and Sports Illustrated, said Thursday that it had sold Grupo …

Discussion: Folio, Bidness Etc, WWD Media Headlines and MarketWatch

Gustavo Arellano / OC Weekly:

Aaron Kushner claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — Aaron Kushner's Wrecking Ball — The Boston millionaire claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — They glumly marched into the third-floor newsroom …

Discussion: @thebenbergman, @charlesnlam, @laura_nelson, @ckrewson and The Newspaper Guild

Todd Wasserman / Mashable:

USA Today uses content discovery tool Curiyo to keep readers from leaving the site — USA Today Tries New Way to Keep Readers From Leaving — USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. — The newspaper has tapped Curiyo …

Discussion: @ampress and @mica_ahmedabad

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Yahoo to Charge Some Advertisers Only for Ads People Actually See — Portal's Viewability Product Limited to U.S. Desktop Ads at the Start — Short Form Video — Online advertisers have long known that a good chunk of their ads run in locations where very few people see them even when the webpage loads.

Discussion: Digiday and Wall Street Journal

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Music industry reps call for uniform licensing across radio and web, but no consensus reached — More Calls to Fix Music Royalty Rules, but No Accord — Two weeks ago, a House Judiciary subcommittee heard from a group of music executives that the complex licensing system is broken, but no consensus emerged about how to fix it.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

MPAA Targets Reddit Community Over Movie Piracy — Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find. — Not all copyright holders take the same approach. Where the RIAA targets millions of infringing URLs per month …

Discussion: @ppinternational, The Verge and Daily Dot

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

John Seeley, founding editor of WSJ's metro section Greater New York, is out — John Seeley out at W.S.J. amid newsroom cuts — John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper's metro section, Greater New York.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily, @joepompeo and The New York Observer

Todd Spangler / Variety:

NBCUniversal Taps Ex-HBO Exec Dina Juliano to Head TV Everywhere Product Strategy — NBCUniversal head of TV Everywhere Alison Moore has hired former colleague Dina Juliano, who previously led HBO's digital user experience team, to be SVP of consumer product strategy for the group.

Discussion: MediaPost, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable and TVNewsCheck.com