Mediagazer: Gene Weingarten on journalistic ethics: two case studies from his career (Andrea Pitzer/Nieman Storyboard)

12:20 AM ET, August 12, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

A Rogue Tweeter Titillates, Then Vanishes — For the last five days, fear has hushed the elevators at Condé Nast. Few dared say much for fear of having their words appear on a satirical Twitter feed called @CondeElevator, which purported to capture the banalities and inanities …

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Lucia Moses / Adweek: Condé Nast Teams Up With Fremantle of ‘Idol’ Fame

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

News Corp Says It Lost $254 Million On MySpace — News Corp lost $254 million on MySpace, the company said as it reported revenue that beat analysts' expectations. — The loss pushed News Corp.'s Q4 net income down 22 percent to $683 million. — News Corp said MySpace's losses during …

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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Rupert Murdoch endorses Carey as next in line — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch said top lieutenant Chase Carey would replace him should anything happen to the 80-year-old News Corp CEO. — The comments were the clearest sign yet that Murdoch's son James may be sidelined after a phone hacking scandal swept …

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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Cameron: media has a responsibility to hand over riot footage — Prime minister says he will encourage media organisations to hand over unused footage to aid police investigations — David Cameron has said in parliament that media organisations have a responsibility to hand over unused footage of rioters to the police.

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Brauchli: No plans for a Washington Post paywall — At the AAJA convention in Detroit, Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli said “we are quite content being the largest free premium newspaper online” and that a paywall won't be going up anytime soon. Knight Foundation's John Bracken told the audience that “print is the new vinyl.”

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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr:

HuffPost/AOL now “aggregating” video as well — The Huffington Post tends to be under constant fire for what many call over-aggregating: taking too much content from other sources and making it their own. It's always been more of an issue with print stories than video, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

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Ari L. Goldman / The Jewish Week:

Telling It Like It Wasn't — Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong. — Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 — the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed — my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights.

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Jay Habegger / AdAge:

Why Amazon Is About to Become a Force in Online Advertising — Expect Other Retailers to Follow, Leveraging Their Data for Sales and Profit — Amazon flew under the radar in late June when it announced it was entering the world of advertising by using its consumer data to deliver targeted advertising …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the next recession — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they're particularly horrifying for news publishers.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Would-Be Hulu Buyers Will Have Their Checkbooks Ready Next Week — Quick update on the Hulu auction: Would-be buyers are expected to offer up their initial bids by the end of next week, according to people familiar with the company. — That will end the first step of a sales process …

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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

Disney to put its shows behind a pay wall online, too — Fox might not be the only broadcaster to begin restricting access to its shows online and requiring next-day viewers to be pay TV subscribers. Disney is also working out deals with distributors that would allow viewers to watch shows sooner if they log on with a cable ID.

Discussion: Electronista

Amanda Lucci / eMedia Vitals:

What magazines with the most fans are doing right — Magazine brands with the most Likes are obviously doing something right and other publishers could learn from their strategies. Digital think tank L2 recently released a survey with various statistics about digital presence …

Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

Gene Weingarten on journalistic ethics: two case studies from his career — The final session of last month's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference offered The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten in conversation with Brian Sweany, deputy editor of Texas Monthly.

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Schmidle defends sourcing in New Yorker's ‘Getting bin Laden’ story, while narrative editors suggest improvements — In his recent New Yorker piece, “Getting Bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle shares a powerful account of what happened the night that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

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