• Murdoch plans to sell "wholesale news"
  "[It is] the simple proposition that we invest quite a lot in our journalism, we are very proud of it and we think we should be charging a fair price for it, both to customers but also to other firms who might want to take it to customers in whatever way." James Murdoch
  (tags: newscorp FT murdoch business newspapers paywalls public)

• Media Helping Media - Strengthening the new middle media
  emergence of "middle media" via social media
  (tags: socialmedia middlemedia newsgathering future futureofnews digital internet)
• The BBC and Public Space [Thinking Faith - the online journal of the British Jesuits]
  MOre from Mark T on the BBC and UK public space
  (tags: bbc markthompson broadcasting media UK murdoch)

• Content Bridges: The Star Tribune Hears a Who
  US public radio to push harder into local news?
  (tags: US radio NPR news journalism future kling)

• Russia's last independent TV stations to move into Kremlin-owned studios | csmonitor.com
  Russia's last two independent TV voices, citing financial distress, have announced a major "restructuring" that may involve partnering with state agencies, with what many liberal critics fear could be an inevitable loss of editorial freedom.
  (tags: ren tv russia russiatoday foi freespeech globalaffairs broadcasting publicdiplomacy)
• How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard | Fast Company
  Profile of Noreena Hertz
  (tags: fastcompany globalaffairs economics noreenahertz debt)
• Op-Ed Columnist - The Nation of Futurity - NYTimes.com
  DAvid Brooks on the rise of CHina and relations with the US
  (tags: NYT USA CHina globalaffairs davidbrooks)
• The new news audience | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
  its grazing and mobile
  (tags: usa news business pew internet journalism future futureofnews)
• Your Social Media Strategy Won't Save You 2
  social media is no substitute for good service
  (tags: socialmedia business tarahunt)
• New Prospect poll: The rise of Britain’s liberal “twittering classes” « Prospect Magazine
  Twitter is increasingly being used as a tool by liberal and left-wing political campaigners. Twitter users are among the most liberal groups in Britain, a new national poll of 2000+ people by Prospect magazine and pollsters YouGov reveals.
  (tags: prospect twitter social media demographics yougov)
• Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging | Media | guardian.co.uk
  charges for 24 hour access mooted
  (tags: newspapers newscorp jamesharding thetimes digital business internet journalism news futurue futureofnews)

• The Pro Israel Lobby in Britain
  James Jones and Peter Oborne accompanying pamphlet to C4 Dispatches prog.
  (tags: C4 israel middleeast politics UK TV oborne)
• An ad agency goes in search of the world's next leaders - Advertising, Media - The Independent
  One Young World
  (tags: oneyoungworld independent globalaffairs)

• Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Future of journalism: some principles and predictions (Polis in Stockholm Pt 3)
  Charlie B on future of Journalism - very clear framework and argument as ever
  (tags: cbeckett polis journalism future futureofnews internet news digital)
• IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office ( - Internet - Government )
  An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.
  (tags: igf governance access filtering china foi oni internet)

• In Internet Age, Foreign Correspondents Have Local Audiences - NYTimes.com
  Foreign correspondents no longer cover one place for the exclusive benefit of readers somewhere else. In the Internet age, we cover each place for the benefit of all places, and the reported-on are among the most avid consumers of what we report.
  (tags: NYT india foreignnews globalaffairs reporting journalism news digital internet future futureofnews)

• Kimberly Abbott: Working together, NGOs and journalists can create stronger international reporting » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Kimberly Abbott of the International Crisis Group leads off by exploring the pros and cons of established news organizations relying on NGOs for help in their reporting.
  (tags: ngos news journalism crisis humanrights)
• WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: Tweeting Tragedy (November 10, 2009)
  Tweets from inside Fort Hood were used in news reports about the shooting there last week. But some of the tweets turned out to detail false information. Paul Carr, columnist for TechCrunch and author of Bringing Nothing To The Party, and Jeff Jarvis, professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and author of the blog BuzzMachine.com, discuss the role of 'citizen journalists'
  (tags: twitter wnyc socialmedia citizenjournalism paulcarr jjarvis lehrer USA digital internet news journalism future futureofnews)

• Mobile Phones in Human Rights: Reflections from Open Mobile Camp | MobileActive.org
  (tags: A19 humanrights mobile)
• Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google,
  Boing Boing analysis of Murdoch interview on SKy News AUstralia
  (tags: murdoch newscorp sky newspapers business media pay digital internet future)

Also speaking, David Elstein, Brent Hoberman, Julie Meyer, Peter Barron from Google and Sky's Adam Boulton. Andrew Neil in the Chair. 

Consensus: the motion is wrong to pitch a person against an organisation. In the short to medium term influence is with Print and in particular Murdoch.  In the medium to long term, however, it flows Google's way.

David Elstein made the anti-competitive complaints about Google that he often makes about the BBC and offered a historical perspective - big companies come and go, but Murdoch has been steadily growing for 50 years. 

Brent Hoberman was powerful in challenging Google for the risk their market dominance presents. In the end there is no transparency around how their algorithm works - or why some sites fall from first to a hundredth in search rankings overnight. Adam Boulton suggests regulation may come in as a consequence. So - Google is the new Microsoft. 

I talk about the growing importance of engagement over reach in driving ad revenues and atomising content undermining brands. Julie Meyer talks about VRM, the trade-off of personal information and identity for levels of service,  and how market dominance can be undermined by entrepreneurialism. 

Peter Barron was deft in correcting myths and deflecting criticism with grace and humour. Being a BBC editor turns out to be the perfect training for a Google Director of Comms....

We all seem to agree that, in the end, influence lies with the consumer. A couple of people Tweeted it under hashtag #ygs