Mediagazer: Too Much Innovation at the Washington Post? My Q & A with the Post's Ombudsman (Jay Rosen/Pressthink)

3:30 PM ET, January 10, 2012

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Thomas Penny / Bloomberg:

Cameron Will Be Questioned at Media Ethics Inquiry, Times Says — U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will be summoned to testify to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics, the Times of London newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person close to the inquiry.

Discussion: @skynewsbreak, Guardian and Bloomberg

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Lord Justice Leveson signals he expects substantial regulatory reform — Judge says press ‘drifted off’ despite wakeup calls, as Financial Times editor claims PCC ‘misstepped badly’ over phone hacking — Lord Justice Leveson has signalled that he expects the newspaper industry …

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Press Gazette:

Former Met officer arrested in phone-hack leaks probe — A former Scotland Yard officer was arrested today over allegations of unauthorised leaks to a journalist. The 52-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office after being detained at his Berkshire home …

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Press Gazette:

Times journalist was disciplined for computer hacking — A Times journalist was disciplined in 2009 for involvement in “computer hacking”, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. — News International interim director of legal affairs Simon Toms said in written evidence to the inquiry …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Nico Pitney to leave The Huffington Post — Nico Pitney, executive editor at The Huffington Post and one of Arianna Huffington's top lieutenants, is leaving the website, Capital has learned. — The news was announced in a staff meeting earlier today. — According to a source …

Discussion: Capital New York, Gawker, @dylanbyers, FishbowlNY and Business Insider

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Huffington Post Losing Key Editor and Top Tech Wizard — Nico Pitney, center, in the White House briefing room, asking a question that the gentleman on the left seems to approve of. — It's a familiar story: Hot company gets acquired; then, one by one, many of the talented people …

Discussion: Business Insider

Nina Totenberg / NPR:

Supreme Court To Consider FCC Indecency Case … Dirty words return to the usually staid Supreme Court Tuesday. For a second time in three years, the justices are hearing arguments about a Federal Communications Commission regulation adopted during the Bush administration that allows …

Discussion: Free Press and @jbflint

James Crugnale / Mediaite:

Pat Buchanan Denies Being Suspended, Says He's On Medical Leave — Pat Buchanan is disputing reports he was suspended from MSNBC and contends that he was instead on medical leave. “Well, you know I've had some medical issues at the end of the year which were pretty problematic …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Myspace — Yes, Myspace — Says It's Going to Sell You Web TV — Lots of folks are waiting for Google, or Apple, or Verizon or someone to offer a Web video subscription service that would rival cable TV. — None of those guys have announced their plans for that, yet.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Home Media Magazine, Softpedia News, Company Town, The Snitch, PC Magazine, Multichannel, Engadget, Lost Remote and CNET

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Why the Future of TV Won't Be Here Soon

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Economist Tries A Flipboard-Like Election App All In HTML — The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-like tablet content offering that works entirely in the web browser.

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian Starts Charging 280,000 iPad Readers From Friday; How Will It Go? — Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets. — Free since its mid-October launch thanks to a Channel 4 sponsorship …

Discussion: The Wall Blog and The FJP

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

‘The Daily’: No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either) — The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not being offered in the Android Marketplace but instead will start life …

Discussion: TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:

Paul Cuts Off CNN, Again — HOLLIS, N.H. — What's left of Ron Paul's patience with the news media appears to be running out. — During a campaign stop here Monday morning, Mr. Paul abruptly cut off a brief interview with the CNN reporter Dana Bash when she asked about his ability to connect with voters in New Hampshire.

Discussion: Chickaboomer, Capital New York, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post and Mediaite

Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire — Engadget seemed healthy. — Back at the beginning of February, AOL's marquee technology blog was coming off its most trafficked month in site history. It had survived the reorganization that gutted many of AOL's other verticals …

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Jim Romenesko:

Courant hires ad director it skewered in its news pages — A reader sends this email: Hartford Courant Rips Businessman as Shady, Hires Him as Ad Director Except for being true, it's practically Onion copy. In 2008, The Hartford Courant ran a detailed story about a local vanity publisher …

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Too Much Innovation at the Washington Post? My Q & A with the Post's Ombudsman — “I am not a person who thinks the fundamentals of journalism have changed that much, despite social media. Of course it's more conversational, engaging. And the online world has changed reporting somewhat, but not fundamentally.”

Discussion: Poynter, Melville House Books and Strange Attractor

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dear WaPo: Innovating too quickly is not the problem

Discussion: Groundswell and Reportr.net

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though international roll-out losses are set to exceed $70 million this quarter alone, CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent.

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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back