Mediagazer: The End of Libel? — When Robin Bierstedt joined the Time Inc … (John Koblin/New York Observer)

The End of Libel? — When Robin Bierstedt joined the Time Inc. legal department in 1983, there were 20 active libel cases pending against the company. In her 27-year career, she has taken on dozens of spurned public figures, officials and organizations (hello, Church of Scientology!) …

Discussion: Romenesko and Journalism.co.uk

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Las Vegas Review-Journal bares its claws — The newspaper has filed lawsuits against more than 30 websites and blogs it says used its works without permission. So what is fair use? — The newspaper people had me pretty much in their corner until they went after the cat people.

Discussion: Romenesko

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Arianna Huffington Takes a “Shine” to Yahoo! and is Setting-up Shop in New York — The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women's interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor …

Discussion: MediaFile, TechCrunch, DailyFinance, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, WebNewser, New York Observer, Guardian, New York Post and Silicon Alley Insider

Discussion: Digits, Romenesko and New York Observer

Brad Stone / Bits:

Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Gawker, BRANDING UNBOUND, Guardian, Techdirt and Silicon Alley Insider

Felix Gillette / New York Observer:

Feats of Clay — On Sunday, June 6, CNN aired an interview with James Fallows in which the writer talked on camera about his recent story in The Atlantic, which looked at Google's impact on the news business. Typically, such stories are full of gloom, but this one was hopeful.

Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

Fox News Launches Social Media-Centric Website — Fox News has soft-launched a website, Fox News Insider, with a social media focus. The site, which as at www.Foxnewsinsider.com, is being constantly updated with reports from Fox News Channel, as well as info on FNC programming like “The O'Reilly Factor”.

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

Daily Mail shuffles features executives — Leaf Kalfayan made executive editor of features, with senior posts also shifting at news and on Femail section — The Daily Mail has unveiled a series of changes to its senior editorial management, with Leaf Kalfayan becoming executive editor of features.

Digital Deliverance LLC:

The Greatest Change in the History of Media — Crosbie's Manifesto - Part One — We live amid the greatest change in the history of media. The nature and magnitude of this epochal change are so enormous that most media executives and media scholars fail or refuse to recognize …

Clint Hendler / CJR:

Unfriendly Fire — When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with giving a variety of classified or closely held information to WikiLeaks, the online secret-sharing site didn't stay quiet.

Discussion: Threat Level, B&C, Hit & Run and This Just In

Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:

AOL's CEO wants to cure journalism's technophobia — AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong has been at the company for over a year now. As he readily admits, AOL has a long way to go before it will be able to stop depending on its slowly depleting dial-up revenues. But on stage at CMSummit in New York on Tuesday …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Journalism.co.uk and Hollywood Reporter

The Wire:

Dennis Kneale Is Off Power Lunch — We've just learned from a source close to the situation that Dennis Kneale is no longer on “Power Lunch.” This goes hand-in-hand with what Kneale told us two weeks ago in an exclusive interview. — Kneale was under the impression his days were numbered at CNBC …

Discussion: Romenesko, Inside Cable News, Dealbreaker and News On News

Tony Hirst / Online Journalism Blog:

Liberating Data from the Guardian... Has it Really Come to This? — When the data is the story, should a news organisation make it available? When the Telegraph started trawling through MPs' expenses data it had bought from a source, industry commentators started asking questions around whether …

Discussion: Guardian

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Demand Media Launches Talent & Expert Network — Demand Media has made a lot of noise over the past year with its revolutionary publishing model; the company employs thousands of freelance journalists who in turn produce thousands of search friendly articles on a daily basis.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:

College Humor CEO Shares His 10 Web Content Urban Legends — Today at the Mashable Media Summit, College Humor's CEO Ricky Van Veen announced a partnership with SoBe to launch SoBe Studios — a project that creates branded video content — and with it a three-part web series called Mr. Vicarious, set to premiere on June 9.

Denise Martin / The Daily Beast:

From Playboy to The Daily Show — Blogs and Stories — Internet star Olivia Munn has joined The Daily Show, not previously known for its hot women of color. Denise Martin talks to her about OCD and joking about the Holocaust with Jon Stewart. — Maybe it says something …

Steve Busfield / Guardian:

Cheesbrough quits Telegraph — The group's chief information officer is leaving to take the same role at the rival company News International — Another key digital executive is to leave the Telegraph Media Group in the wake of Will Lewis's abrupt departure last month.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Media Week and paidContent:UK

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

TurnHere And Its Network Of 8,000 Filmmakers To Flood Yelp With Videos — Online video production startup TurnHere is now the exclusive provider of video creation services for Yelp, the popular local search and business review site. — TurnHere, through its network of over 8,000 professional filmmakers …

Discussion: TurnHere's Blog

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Shots Returned! Jeff Jarvis Responds to Wise-Yet-Cranky Kaplan Diss — Yesterday, we took note of an AdAge article by Edmund Lee, and a fun kicker that was seemingly buried at the bottom: revered former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan taking revered tech pundit Jeff Jarvis to task.

Caitlin Roper / The Paris Review:

Department of Corrections — Thank you, Mike Leaverton, for your notice in SF Weekly about our event at The Booksmith in San Francisco next Monday, June 14th. (Hope to see you there!) And thank you, too, for the opportunity to clarify a few things about the legend of the Paris Review slush pile.