Mediagazer: New York Observer to Cast Its Net Beyond the Upper East Side (Jeremy W. Peters/Media Decoder)

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

New York Observer to Cast Its Net Beyond the Upper East Side — Listening to Kyle Pope, the editor of The New York Observer, discuss how he wants to re-energize his newspaper sounds a lot like someone describing a Broadway show or a television series that has run a little past its prime.

Guardian:

MPs seek fresh investigation into NoW phone hacking — • Calls for parliament to order second inquiry into hacking — • Scotland Yard to examine allegations by former NoW reporter — News International and David Cameron's PR chief, Andy Coulson, face the prospect …

Discussion: New York Times, Bagehot's notebook, Daily Mail, Independent.ie, Reuters, BBC and The Independent

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast and BBC College of Journalism Blog

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

In an Age of Voices, Moving Beyond the Facts — WHAT some call opinion, others call interpretive journalism — a label as opaque as the practice. Call it what you will, nothing has generated more reader indignation in the past few weeks than when it has appeared on a news page.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Kirk LaPointe's …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The newswire quandary — Questions: should newswire agencies serve consumers - directly? And, to a broader extent, how does the current information shift impact the agencies' future? Two recent events lead me to explore these questions in today's Monday Note.

Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:

The $131M Ford Rollover Death Verdict That Twitter Broke — Fast Company's Adam L. Penenberg tweets the breaking news about a verdict against Ford in the death of rising Mets star Brian Cole. As reporters lagged behind on the story, Penenberg discovered a new media use for the 140-character format.

Discussion: TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online — In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing …

Discussion: College Media Matters

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Regulating sex and speech — Let me start with a disclosure: I hope to think that Craig Newmark is a friend. He can be as hard for me to read as James Joyce or C++. But I know him as a decent and genuine man who believes that he is bringing a service to millions of people …

Discussion: CNN, New York Times and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation — If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works - the sausage making - to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is.

Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Kanye West and How Twitter Has Changed the Way We Communicate — If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West. — Just a few hours ago, the superstar rapper let loose a barrage of 70+ tweets …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Speakeasy, PopEater, Mediaite and TechCrunch

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Why USA Today's Declines Led to Radical Restructuring — When Gannett's USA Today announced 10 new executive appointments and a “pretty radical” restructuring August 27, the company left plenty of questions unanswered. — What exactly are these new “content rings,” which eventually …

Discussion: Leadership

David Rothman / The Solomon Scandals:

TBD hyperlocal site's traffic pops up during hostage crisis at Discovery Channel's headquarters — TBD's new hyperlocal Web site for the D.C. area is no great shakes so far in the visitor count department, but it's too early to pass judgment. That's what I wrote last month.

Paola Totaro / Sydney Morning Herald:

To catch a cheat: behind the scenes of ‘gotcha’ journalism — But the tabloid is facing serious allegations of its own, writes Paola Totaro in London. — The sensational investigation by the News of the World into the Pakistani match-fixing scandal in London began in Sydney nine months ago …