Mediagazer: One on One: Brian Lam of Gizmodo.com (Nick Bilton/Bits)

10:35 PM ET, May 29, 2010

Top News:

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

FTC protects journalism's past — The Federal Trade Commission has been nosing around how to save journalism and in its just-posted “staff discussion draft” on “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” it makes its bias clear: The FTC defines journalism …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Nick Bilton / Bits:

One on One: Brian Lam of Gizmodo.com — It was just last month that Gizmodo.com, the gadget blog, published images of the next-generation iPhone that led to a chain of events that sound more like a soap opera than a gadget story. Since then, Gizmodo has been catapulted into the mainstream media …

A Cpj / Committee to Protect Journalists:

In Zimbabwe, Daily News is on the way back — Zimbabwe's beleaguered independent media won a major victory when an official commission granted publishing licenses to four daily newspapers, including The Daily News, the nation's leading paper before it was outlawed seven years ago.

BabyBarista:

Welcome to the re-launch of BabyBarista - keeping it free of charge! — I have today withdrawn the BabyBarista Blog from The Times in reaction to their plans to hide it away behind a paywall along with their other content. Now don't get me wrong. I have absolutely no problem with the decision to start charging.

Discussion: The Barrister Blog

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News — Digg founder Kevin Rose is close to his first major launch since taking over as CEO and instituting layoffs. He published a video today on his personal YouTube account laying out the site's upcoming version 4 release, due “very soon” (found via TechCrunch).

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Soaring on a Pig … and Scripting News

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Apple probe grows — The Justice Dept.'s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, The Post has learned. — According to several sources, the Justice Dept. has contacted a handful of the country's biggest media …

Discussion: CNET News

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Newsmax owner, Ritchie Capital Management CEO eye Newsweek — Thane Ritchie, who tried to buy Sun-Times Media Group last year, says he'd make any offer for Newsweek personally, not on his firm's behalf. Greg Bensinger reports the magazine lost $2.3 million in the first quarter as revenue slid 31 percent to $29.4 million.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

Mark S. Luckie / 10,000 Words:

How I created an award-winning, multi-platform, multimedia project — It was recently announced that my project, Guide to the U.S. Senate Floor Procedures, was one of the winners of Sunlight Labs' Design for America contest. In the spirit of openness and transparency that this blog is founded on …

Andrew Pulver / Guardian:

Sex and the City 2 - rise of the critic-proof movie — On course to be most derided film ever, sequel epitomises movies whose reviews have had no bearing on the box office — Sex and the City 2 has only just premiered, but it is well on its way to becoming one of the most critically derided films of all time.

Discussion: Variety

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:

The Man on the Street — So a citizen journalist walks into a journalism school ... Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month, some of them have included Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson …

Jack Shafer / Slate:

Two Cheers for the Sulzberger Dynasty — Why the nepotistic promotion of Times reporter A.G. Sulzberger is a good thing. — You won't catch me snarking about the promotion of A.G. Sulzberger from a reporter slot on the New York Times' metro staff, where he's been laboring for a year …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Publish2's Ryan Sholin: “We did not set out to kill the Associated Press” — This week, with much fanfare, Publish2 announced its new News Exchange service. Using the new platform, CEO Scott Karp wrote, “newspapers can replace the AP's obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing …

Discussion: Romenesko