Mediagazer: Media Cos. Should Stop Milking and Start Investing (Martin Peers/The Information)

7:25 AM ET, November 7, 2014

Top News:

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed doesn't do clickbait, defined as under-delivering what's over-promised in a headline — Why BuzzFeed Doesn't Do Clickbait — You won't believe this one weird trick. — Jon Stewart was asked about BuzzFeed and Vice the other day, and had this to say:

Caroline Davies / Guardian:

Missing: 3 million News International emails — All emails covering her period as editor removed after Rebekah Brooks changed company's email deletion policy in 2010 — Three million emails at News International are missing after Rebekah Brooks changed the company's email deletion policy, a jury heard.

Discussion: @chaabanrabih, @paullewismoney and @hackedoffhugh

Press Gazette:
News Corp feared corporate charge over payments could ‘kill company’ and risk 46,000 jobs

Discussion: The Independent, BBC, International Business Times and Guardian

Chris Grygiel / Associated Press:

FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter — 1 photo — SEATTLE (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility.

Discussion: New York Times, NBC News, Sky News, RT, International Business Times, CNN and seattlepi.com

Ewan Palmer / International Business Times:

Phone Hacking: Former News Of The World Editor Ian Edmondson Jailed for Eight Months — Former News of the World editor Ian Edmondson has been sentenced to eight months in jail after admitting to phone hacking. — Edmondson is the last person to be sentenced of all those who were convicted …

Discussion: Telegraph

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

HuffPost defends disciplinary actions against reporters, editors — The Huffington Post's newsroom is on edge following recent incidents in which several employees were disciplined and a major story was put on pause. — Two of the incidents involved journalists who were suspended after publishing sensitive articles.

Discussion: @joepompeo

Peter Marsh / INMA:

Poll: 73% of newspapers charge for online access, 40% have hard paywalls — The state of paid content: For free, for a fee, or somewhere in between — Though nearly three-quarters of newspapers are now charging for online content to some extent, there is still disagreement …

Discussion: Guardian, @sarahmarshall and @earljwilkinson

Los Angeles Times:

Investors ask court to put O.C. Register parent in receivership — Two investors in Freedom Communications, the owner of the Orange County Register, are asking a Delaware court to put the Santa Ana newspaper company into receivership, saying the firm is “insolvent” and beset by “mismanagement.”

Discussion: Orange County Business …, Guardian and Navel Gazing

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program? — If you were a resident of Berkeley, California with free time on your hands and a sense of curiosity, you might have found yourself a couple of weekends ago at Uncharted, an “ideas festival” put on by local news site Berkeleyside.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @ceodonovan, @jan10vdh and @niemanlab

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Sesame Workshop Bullish on Children's Magazines — At a time when the magazine business is struggling, Sesame Workshop is making the case that the demand for magazines for young readers is still strong. — At a press event held highlighting its digital products Tuesday morning …

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Aereo imposes large layoffs, but streaming TV service is not shutting down — There's more trouble for Aereo, which laid off the majority of its staff this week. The internet TV service will continue operations for now. — Aereo's bad year just got worse.

Discussion: TVNewser, Variety, BetaBoston, FierceOnlineVideo News, VentureBeat, TIME, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Mashable, ReadWrite, The Hill, Engadget and @granitegeek

Capital New York:

The 60-second interview: Richard Wolffe, V.P. and executive editor, MSNBC.com — CAPITAL: Msnbc.com is turning one [today], how do you think the first year has gone, and where do you see it going from here? — WOLFFE: The first year has—you won't be surprised to hear me say this—gone astonishingly well.

Alicia Shepard / Columbia Journalism Review:

How one group is making it easier to use social media in Afghanistan — Impassion Afghanistan hosted a summit explaining Web tools to journalists — KABUL—The invitation for the second annual Afghan Social Media Summit in Kabul arrived with all the pertinent details except one—the location.

Discussion: @daviduberti