Mediagazer: ONA Selects 2011 MJ Bear Fellows, Journalism Stand-Outs Under 30 (Market Wire)

Amelia Hill / Guardian:

Phone-hacking scandal: Stuart Kuttner is latest NoW exec to be arrested — Former managing editor and one-time public face of the News of the World taken into custody — Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years …

Discussion: paidContent, Mediaite, Reuters, On Media's Blog, USA Today, Adweek, New York Magazine, The Wrap, The Wire, The Lede, Press Gazette and Gawker

The Atlantic Online:

Why I Like Media Experiments — During the time when I'd normally have written a blog post or two, gone on a long run, and made some tortilla soup, the world had helped us to create several brand new things — It was 2:45 p.m., fifteen minutes before the end of the 48-hour period …

Discussion: Brain Pickings

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
Adventures in Paywalls: The ‘Longshot’ Magazine Nagwall

Discussion: Poynter, eMedia Vitals, Future of Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab

Heather Billings / I came, I saw, I coded: HOW TO MAKE A LONGSHOT HAPPEN

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Why Watch TV at Home When You Have a Perfectly Good iPhone to Squint At? — Yet more evidence that “mobile” is relative when it comes to smartphones, iPads, and online video. Here's another study that says lots of people are watching stuff on their gadgets when they're just a few feet from their own TVs.

Discussion: Nielsen Wire, rbr.com, Multichannel, SocialTimes.com, Gizmodo, Electronista and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

A Rift Divides Members of Journalism Groups — As the National Association of Black Journalists opens its annual conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a topic of conversation is likely to be its recent efforts to get more black anchors on prime-time news programs.

SocialFlow Blog:

Engaging News Hungry Audiences Tweet by Tweet: An audience analysis of prominent mainstream media news accounts on Twitter — Back in May, when we analyzed the viral spread of news about Osama Bin Laden's death, we were impressed by the speed and scale at which news could break on Twitter.

Discussion: AllThingsD

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

What Former Dow Jones CEO Thinks of Murdoch's WSJ — Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — Warren Philips spent more than 50 years at The Wall Street Journal, rising to become managing editor, then publisher, and eventually CEO of Dow Jones & Co. But you won't hear him complaining …

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Boston Globe editor joins Twitter; 'Like it or not, you can't ignore it,' he tells other editors — Romenesko Misc. — Marty Baron started Tweeting last Friday, a day before his 10th anniversary as Boston Globe editor. “Welcome Boston Globe Editor @globemartybaron to Twitter (and 2011)!” tweeted CNBC's Herb Greenberg.

Discussion: Gawker

Market Wire:

ONA Selects 2011 MJ Bear Fellows, Journalism Stand-Outs Under 30 — The Online News Association, the world's largest membership organization of digital journalists, today announced its first 2011 MJ Bear Fellows, three journalists under age 30 whose innovative work in independent …

Wall Street Journal:

McGraw-Hill in Cross Hairs — Two big investors have upped their stake in McGraw-Hill Cos. in a move that could lead to a push to break up the conglomerate, known as much for its financial data and bond ratings as its textbooks for school children. — Hedge fund firm Jana Partners LLC …

Discussion: Deal Journal

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“A great story to tell to advertisers”: How TPM increased its ad sales revenue 88 percent from last year — This June, Talking Points Memo had the biggest ad sales month in its eleven-year history, closing out a half-year period that saw ad sales revenue grow 88 percent over the same period in 2010.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Time and Future of Journalism

Budd Mishkin / statenisland.ny1.com:

One On 1: Journalist Wayne Barrett Turns A New Page … Much is the same in journalist Wayne Barrett's world these days. He's still married to Fran, his wife of 42 years, and he's still passionate about his work. — There are a couple of key differences, however.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Hayes to Host MSNBC's Weekend Morning Show — Christopher L. Hayes of The Nation magazine will host a weekend morning show for MSNBC beginning in September, the channel said Monday. — MSNBC was earlier reported to be developing a show for Mr. Hayes, who has been the Washington editor for The Nation, the liberal weekly magazine.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com and TVNewser

Wall Street Journal:

Bribery Arose in Libel Case — LONDON—As police investigate the News of the World tabloid for allegedly bribing police officers for information, a libel case involving another London tabloid suggests that the practice may not have been unusual. — In 2000, a reporter for the Sunday Mirror …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CNN Readies “Social Network for News” — CNN iReport, the five-year-old platform for citizen journalists to upload and share photos and videos, will become something of a “social network for news” with its imminent redesign, says Lila King, Participation Director of CNN Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Forbes.com