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Rolling Stone walks back UVA rape story over 'discrepancies' in student's account

The magazine has apologised for the article about a woman who alleges she was the victim of a calculated gang rape by members of a fraternity

Rolling Stone walks back UVA rape story over 'discrepancies' in student's account
New Republic boss calls emergency staff meeting to quell unrest

Editor Franklin Foer quits over plans for radical digital makeover of the 100-year-old magazine

New Republic boss calls emergency staff meeting to quell unrest
- More redundancies at California's troubled Orange County Register
  
  100 jobs to go in new ‘restructure’
  
  More redundancies at California's troubled Orange County Register
- New York Times veterans announce emotional exits after decades of service
  
  Paper wants to slash 100 editorial jobs in total and will make layoffs if sufficient buyouts aren’t taken up by staff
  
  New York Times veterans announce emotional exits after decades of service
- New York Times veterans to exit after buyouts
  
  The newspaper is offering lucrative packages to senior employees with more than 20 years of service as it looks to cut 100 jobs
  
  New York Times veterans to exit after buyouts
- News Corp's Irish news agency Storyful creates R&D centre
  
  30 jobs planned for company’s expansion
  
  News Corp's Irish news agency Storyful creates R&D centre
- Amazon to offer Washington Post app for free to Fire tablet owners
  
  WaPo app will be pushed to all Amazon-branded tablets for free trial period before charging $1 for the following six months
  
  Amazon to offer Washington Post app for free to Fire tablet owners
- Benedict Cumberbatch wins genius status at Time magazine
  
  He gets top spot for movie portrayal of Alan Turing
  
  Benedict Cumberbatch wins genius status at Time magazine

California journalists offered $150 gift cards to deliver their newspaper

Orange County Register's answer to distribution problems

California journalists offered $150 gift cards to deliver their newspaper
The p-word the New York Post just could not bear to use...

US newspaper wimps out on a headline

The p-word the New York Post just could not bear to use...
Jonah Lehrer adds to comeback week for once-disgraced journalists

Former New Yorker writer signs a book deal in the same week New Republic plagiarist Stephen Glass may have been forgiven by colleagues

Jonah Lehrer adds to comeback week for once-disgraced journalists
Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin

US newspaper survey reveals success for metered model

Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin
Investors claim US publisher of Orange County register is insolvent

They demand company should go into receivership

Investors claim US publisher of Orange County register is insolvent
Amanda Knox gets a chance to make headlines of her own as a reporter

Editor says it's a chance for her to be a human being rather than a celebrity

Amanda Knox gets a chance to make headlines of her own as a reporter
Bloomberg taps Sky News’ head of business for top international TV role

Dafydd Rees will be in charge of television across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, including news coverage and operations. By John Plunkett

Bloomberg taps Sky News’ head of business for top international TV role
Jill Abramson plans to offer writers $100,000 for an article

Don't all rush at once - please form an orderly queue

Jill Abramson plans to offer writers $100,000 for an article
Matt Taibbi returning to Rolling Stone after split from First Look Media

Journalist who controversially left eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s organisation just days ago will have story in forthcoming Rolling Stone

Matt Taibbi returning to Rolling Stone after split from First Look Media
First Look journalists reveal tumult at billionaire-funded news venture

Post on the Intercept details ‘excessive authority’ of benefactor Pierre Omidyar in run-up to departure of senior editor Matt Taibbi

First Look journalists reveal tumult at billionaire-funded news venture
How journalists are facing up to ever-shrinking newsrooms - study

Job insecurity haunts redundancy survivors

How journalists are facing up to ever-shrinking newsrooms - study
Washington political and journalism elite gather to mourn editor Ben Bradlee

Funeral draws Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bob Woodward and others who come to pay tribute to editor of Watergate stories

Washington political and journalism elite gather to mourn editor Ben Bradlee

What if transparency max was normal?

Stefan Stern

Stefan Stern: An astonishing blogpost by employees of First Look Media offers a new model for businesses, but it’s not without its dangers

What if transparency max was normal?
- Just imagine Ben Bradlee as a ‘director of content’
  
  Peter Preston
  
  Peter Preston: The great editor would no doubt find a job in modern media – but it’s questionable whether Watergate would ever have happened
  
  Just imagine Ben Bradlee as a ‘director of content’
- The Guardian view on Ben Bradlee: hero of a free press
  
  Editorial: The greatest of Washington Post editors broke the Watergate story and published the Pentagon papers
  
  The Guardian view on Ben Bradlee: hero of a free press
- Stamina, bravery, brilliance – the great Ben Bradlee had it all
  
  Alan Rusbridger
  
  Alan Rusbridger: Bradlee’s editorship of the Washington Post changed American history. The editor of the Guardian remembers a man ‘committed unshakably to principle’
  
  Stamina, bravery, brilliance – the great Ben Bradlee had it all

James Risen is not going to let the US fear-mongering machine win in secret

Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm: The reporter who exposed the NSA before Snowden will go behind bars to protect his source. But he will not let Obama’s Bushian addiction to power take us back to endless war without a fight

James Risen is not going to let the US fear-mongering machine win in secret
Chess must stagger on without the New York Times

Stephen Moss

Stephen Moss: Notebook: Once upon a time, Boris v Bobby dominated the front pages. Now the NYT can barely bring itself to print a chess column at all

Chess must stagger on without the New York Times
New York Times slims down by 100 jobs, but it struggles to keep weight off

Peter Preston

Peter Preston: Numbers in the Grey Lady's newsroom have been going up, not down, over the last few years

New York Times slims down by 100 jobs, but it struggles to keep weight off
When will Obama’s administration stop trying to send this man to jail for telling the truth about spies, nukes and Iran?

Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm: James Risen is out of chances. It’s time for the government to stop harassing a journalist for doing his job

When will Obama’s administration stop trying to send this man to jail for telling the truth about spies, nukes and Iran?
In journalism only the person with the chequebook will get their way

David Hepworth

David Hepworth: As the New York Times has found out, advertorials are here to stay and it’s all down to price

In journalism only the person with the chequebook will get their way
Will a new editor find an audience for his 'religiously digital' newspaper?

Roy Greenslade

Roy Greenslade on the expectations of one ailing US city paper as it hires a leading investigative journalist

Will a new editor find an audience for his 'religiously digital' newspaper?
US drama might not be superior, but its media salaries certainly are

Peter Preston

Peter Preston: Danny Cohen may be right that American box sets are no better than British ones. But the NYT pays a lot more than the BBC

US drama might not be superior, but its media salaries certainly are
Time divides, ads subtract and it's hard to sum up newpapers' future

Peter Preston

Peter Preston: a survey of newspaper trends looks grim for western publishers, but then again the startups' sums don't always add up

Time divides, ads subtract and it's hard to sum up newpapers' future
Four more New York Times columnists and Malcolm Gladwell get really high: what could possibly go wrong?

Sarah Jeong

Sarah Jeong: Maureen Dowd is off today, recovering

Four more New York Times columnists and Malcolm Gladwell get really high: what could possibly go wrong?
Info wars: why it's time for Google & Co to come clean

Emily Bell

Emily Bell: Social networking sites may call themselves technology companies, but the reality is their business is information

Info wars: why it's time for Google & Co to come clean
The New York Times: little profit from a Manhattan media muddle

Peter Preston

Peter Preston: The NYT has been gripped by a row over personalities when it – and its competitors – should be more worried about revenue

The New York Times: little profit from a Manhattan media muddle
Why would the New York Times stoop to running an Islamophobe's ad?

Raya Jalabi

Raya Jalabi: The newspaper delivers an air of legitimacy, even when those words are paid for by xenophobes to spread alarmist messages

Why would the New York Times stoop to running an Islamophobe's ad?
Life and death as a female editor

Amanda Wilson

Amanda Wilson – the only woman to lead the Sydney Morning Herald in its 180-year history – outlines the perils of editing while female

Life and death as a female editor
Jill Abramson's ouster shows women that we still must be more than good

Emily Bell

Emily Bell: Women's fury over the New York Times editor's firing stems from what we know – that excellent performances are never enough

Jill Abramson's ouster shows women that we still must be more than good
DC thinks it can silence a new Snowden, but the anti-leak hypocrisy is backfiring

Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm: The Obama administration's latest secrecy guidelines would make Deep Throat spin in his grave. Good thing the floodgates are about to open on drones

DC thinks it can silence a new Snowden, but the anti-leak hypocrisy is backfiring
Digital journalism: we're still waiting for the third model of news publishing

Emily Bell

Emily Bell: What do recent launches such as Vox.com and the FiveThirtyEight mean for the development of the news media?

Digital journalism: we're still waiting for the third model of news publishing

Ofcom Treasury civil servant in line for Ofcom top job

Sharon White recommended to the culture secretary, Sajid Javid, as the media regulator’s new chief executive

Treasury civil servant in line for Ofcom top job
BBC Rogue computerised cameras plague BBC news presenters

Presenters left exasperated and viewers amused as robot cameras take their own view after state of the art upgrade

Rogue computerised cameras plague BBC news presenters
Magazines Mass walkout at New Republic over digital strategy

Staff at politics and culture magazine say they have been treated in a ‘cowardly, hostile way’

Mass walkout at New Republic over digital strategy

- BBC3 BBC3: plans submitted for channel’s closure in 2015
  
  Trust receives details of proposals for making youth-focused channel online only ahead of public consultation in January
  
  BBC3: plans submitted for channel’s closure in 2015
- Greenslade Newspaper sales fall by 9%, but the Times bucks the downward trend
  
  Latest ABC figures record continuing overall decline among the national titles
  
  Newspaper sales fall by 9%, but the Times bucks the downward trend
- Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson: Top Gear’s global popularity shows it can’t be that awful
  
  BBC presenter and Richard Hammond confirm controversial Argentinian footage will be shown in Christmas special
  
  Jeremy Clarkson: Top Gear’s global popularity shows it can’t be that awful
- Media Monkey Russell Brand and Nigel Farage to square off on Question Time
  
  Media Monkey: The Ukip leader will be joining the actor and comedian, along with MP Mary Creagh on the BBC programme
  
  Russell Brand and Nigel Farage to square off on Question Time
- Media Monkey Channel 4 thinks long and hard about launch venue for Cucumber
  
  Media Monkey: London’s most phallic building was the obvious choice to screen its new drama series by Russell T Davies
  
  Channel 4 thinks long and hard about launch venue for Cucumber
- Viral video chart Viral video chart: Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets spoofed, Tom Cruise’s brush with a bus
  
  This week’s roundup includes a ‘what-if Wes Anderson directed Star Wars’ and the Mission Impossible star forgetting basic street-crossing skills
  
  Viral video chart: Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets spoofed, Tom Cruise’s brush with a bus
- Radio 4 Extra BBC Radio 4 Extra to broadcast hit US podcast Serial
  
  US podcast to be broadcast daily at 9pm on digital station, beginning with Sarah Koenig re-investigating the 1999 murder of high-school student Hae Min Lee in Baltimore
  
  BBC Radio 4 Extra to broadcast hit US podcast Serial
- Express Newspapers Express Newspapers improves redundancy deals
  
  Richard Desmond’s newspaper group offers better terms as it seeks to push through 30% staff cuts to hit target of £14m cost savings
  
  Express Newspapers improves redundancy deals

Media Briefing Today's media stories from the papers

Our roundup of the day's media stories, including CPS to review Mazher Mahmood cases and BBC defends 'hyperbolic coverage' of cuts after chancellor's criticism

Today's media stories from the papers
Jon Snow Jon Snow: Go on, join the good guys on International Day of the Volunteer

As a trustee of Media Trust, the Channel 4 News presenter calls on execs to help charities develop communications strategies

Jon Snow: Go on, join the good guys on International Day of the Volunteer
Australian media Walkley awards: Sarah Ferguson gives ABC management a blast

Television reporter scathing about Mark Scott’s decision to downgrade traditional ABC radio and television journalism to fund new digital priorities

Walkley awards: Sarah Ferguson gives ABC management a blast
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Walkleys speech: Sarah Ferguson criticises Mark Scott over ABC cuts - video

Senior ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson delivers a punchy Walkley awards speech that made for awkward listening for the corporation's management

Walkleys speech: Sarah Ferguson criticises Mark Scott over ABC cuts - video
BBC BBC defends ‘hyperbolic coverage’ of cuts after chancellor’s criticism

George Osborne tells John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today that BBC reports are rewind of 2010 cutbacks coverage that wrongly predicted return to ‘George Orwell’ world

BBC defends ‘hyperbolic coverage’ of cuts after chancellor’s criticism
Mazher Mahmood Fake sheikh Mazher Mahmood cases to be reviewed by CPS

Crown Prosecution Service reviews 25 cases based on Sun reporter’s evidence and inquiry into football spot-fixing is halted

Fake sheikh Mazher Mahmood cases to be reviewed by CPS
Australian media Walkley awards winners: Guardian Australia and ABC take scoop of the year as Peter Greste is honoured

• Story on targeting of Indonesian president’s mobile wins best scoop
• Paul Daley lauded for coverage of Indigenous affairs
• Imprisoned al-Jazeera journalist is recognised for fight for free press

Walkley awards winners: Guardian Australia and ABC take scoop of the year as Peter Greste is honoured
Media Monkey BBC looks back to the future at Christmas press drinks

With the keynote out of the way, there was much talk of Miranda Hart’s reinvention of The Generation Game

BBC looks back to the future at Christmas press drinks
Greenslade Why I applaud the CPS inquiry into Mazher Mahmood's stories

Roy Greenslade

But it has taken the authorities far too long to take complaints against him seriously

Why I applaud the CPS inquiry into Mazher Mahmood's stories

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Walkleys speech: Sarah Ferguson criticises Mark Scott over ABC cuts - video

Senior ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson delivers a punchy Walkley awards speech that made for awkward listening for the corporation's management

Walkleys speech: Sarah Ferguson criticises Mark Scott over ABC cuts - video
BBC TV Christmas trailer - video

Doctor Who, Miranda, Mrs Brown's Boys, Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing all feature in the corporation's 2014 Christmas trailer

BBC TV Christmas trailer - video
Ad Break: Aldi, Canal Digital, Guinness, GameStop, AirBnB - video

How Aldi would like the northern hemisphere to learn from the Australian approach to Christmas

Ad Break: Aldi, Canal Digital, Guinness, GameStop, AirBnB - video

Adam Bandt: ‘People believed Abbott when he said there would be no cuts to ABC or SBS’ – video

With widespread job losses expected at the ABC and SBS, Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt says Tony Abbott should have honoured the promise he made before last year's election that there would be no cuts.

Adam Bandt: ‘People believed Abbott when he said there would be no cuts to ABC or SBS’ – video
Ad Break's 12 Ads of Christmas: Sainsbury's, John Lewis, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams - video

Some of this year's Christmas commercials have really caught the public's imagination, with John Lewis's and Sainsbury's leading the way

Ad Break's 12 Ads of Christmas: Sainsbury's, John Lewis, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Debenhams - video
BBC unveils behind the scenes film of God Only Knows campaign

BBC documentary goes behind the scenes of star-studded film featuring One Direction and Pharrell Williams

BBC unveils behind the scenes film of God Only Knows campaign
Imposter pretends to be rapper 360 in 3AW interview with Tom Elliott - audio

A man tricks the 3AW radio station into believing he was the rapper 360 just weeks after the station was tricked by someone pretending to be an Isis leader

Imposter pretends to be rapper 360 in 3AW interview with Tom Elliott - audio

Ad Break: Ikea, Oatly, Wear It Pink, Sony, Coastguard - video

This week's review of adverts from around the world opens with an appropriately creepy offering for Ikea as we approach Halloween

Ad Break: Ikea, Oatly, Wear It Pink, Sony, Coastguard - video
Bringing our journalism to life: the new Guardian US website – video

We have launched our newly redesigned website to our US audience. Find out more about how we got here

Bringing our journalism to life: the new Guardian US website – video
Ad Break: DirecTV, Coors Light, Replay Jeans, Strongbow, Birell Turbo, AMF, Haig Whiskey - video

Rob Lowe shows us his creepy side, Jean-Claude Van Damme camps it up, Luis Suarez tests the flexibility of Replay jeans, and David Beckham throws a party

Ad Break: DirecTV, Coors Light, Replay Jeans, Strongbow, Birell Turbo, AMF, Haig Whiskey - video
Benjamin Bradlee dies aged 93 – video

The former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has died aged 93

Benjamin Bradlee dies aged 93 – video
Change.org's Ben Rattray: We're making democracies more democratic - video

Change.org chief Ben Rattray speaks to Jane Martinson about the popularity of his social activism website, and his vision of a fairer society

Change.org's Ben Rattray: We're making democracies more democratic - video
Mia Freedman's gay-paedophile analogy on The Project - video

Mia Freedman has apologised after comments that compared gay people to paedophiles on The Project

Mia Freedman's gay-paedophile analogy on The Project - video
Ad Break: Tomcat, Bridgestone, Argos, New World, Barncancer Foundation, Equal Payback Project - video

Watch Sarah Silverman tackle pay inequality in a controversial campaign

Ad Break: Tomcat, Bridgestone, Argos, New World, Barncancer Foundation, Equal Payback Project - video
Ad Break: Snickers, SSE, Toyota, TNT Couriers, Channel 4, Nestlé Cheerios - video

This week's round-up of commercials starts with Mr Bean in a kung fu movie for Snickers and ends with a touching Canadian viral for Cheerios celebrating gay parents

Ad Break: Snickers, SSE, Toyota, TNT Couriers, Channel 4, Nestlé Cheerios - video
Top Gear driven out of Argentina under a hail of stones – video

The cast and crew of Top Gear are pelted with stones as they drive through a town in Argentina, despite having a police escort

Top Gear driven out of Argentina under a hail of stones – video
Ad Break: GE, Vorwerk, Kit Kat, Sony Xperia, DnB - video

Watch Jeff Goldblum actor channel Liberace and a clip from the archives suggesting George Clooney has 'married' before

Ad Break: GE, Vorwerk, Kit Kat, Sony Xperia, DnB - video
Female pilot in Isis mission ‘boobs on the ground’, says Fox News presenter - video

Fox News presenters crack a series of sexist jokes about the UAE's first female fighter pilot

Female pilot in Isis mission ‘boobs on the ground’, says Fox News presenter - video
Ad Break: Thomson Holidays, The National College for Teaching and Leadership, Formula E, Nike, Gatorade - video

William Shatner's rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody leads this week's collection and the Yankees shortstop gets (another) fond farewell

Ad Break: Thomson Holidays, The National College for Teaching and Leadership, Formula E, Nike, Gatorade - video
Ad Break: Schneider Electric, VW Tiguan, Canon, the Guardian, Cancer Society of Finland, Guinness - video

Mischievous raccoons for a French power company lead this week's selection of new commercials, which also includes another look at dadhood from VW

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