Mediagazer: Lebedev to give SoE conference lecture (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

Neil Swidey / Boston Globe:

Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster — These users comment on everything from today's news to hotel rooms. Many are harmless. But some are ruthless. Who are they exactly, and why do they do what they do? — On Monday, May 17, at 2 p.m., a breaking news article headlined …

Discussion: Romenesko and Universal Hub

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Diller says paywalls at NYT, other media will eventually work — Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu about the outlook for readers paying for online content. Diller said that, like the music business, paid content online will eventually succeed.

Discussion: Company Town and New York Observer

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

Big problems at L.A. Times this morning ** — Many problems with the Los Angeles Times presses last night and early this morning — with numerous breakages of the pressroom web — and some papers are still just being delivered. Advertisers and readers are reportedly livid all over the place …

Discussion: Romenesko, L.A. NOW and Readers' Representative …

Can Anyone Replace the Local Beat Reporter? — I'd like to repeat a story I sometimes tell about the importance of local journalism. It begins in 2003, when I worked as the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's beat reporter for Rancho Cucamonga (population 150,000), an affluent commuter suburb about an hour east of downtown Los Angeles.

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

5 Staffers Flee Newsweek, Hedge-Funder Phil Falcone May Be Trying To Buy It (WPO) — All's been quiet on the Newsweek front recently, but here are a few interesting developments. — By our count, five staffers have left Newsweek since The Washington Post Co. announced on May 5 that it was putting …

Discussion: CHINAdaily and FishbowlNY

Choire / The Awl:

The Strange, True Story of Gothamist and Jimmy Dolan — Gothamist, a metro website company, founded in 2003, now has 13 city-specific websites, which reach 2.7 million unique readers a month, according to Quantcast. For a long time, in my opinion, Gothamist was stubborn about growing as a business.

Discussion: Mediaite

Discussion: New York Magazine, Gawker and Runnin' Scared

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Q&A: Knight News Challenge winner Retha Hill discusses her local platform CitySeed — Former journalist Retha Hill was one of the 12 winners of this year's Knight News Challenge. Her winning concept, which was awarded £90,000, is CitySeed: an online platform where local people can propose topics for local news media attention.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Newspaper Death Watch, The Walter Cronkite School … and The Windy Citizen Full Feed

Gawker:

Wired, Wikileaks and the Hacker-Journalist Complex — On June 6th, Wired.com published a report that military intelligence analyst Bradley Manning had been arrested for allegedly leaking the famous 2007 Apache helicopter attack video to Wikileaks. Now Wikileaks and others are questioning Wired's involvement in the story.

Discussion: Salon and CJR

V. Michael Bove, Jr. / Nieman Reports:

The Future of Storytelling: A Participatory Endeavor — For 25 years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab has been at the forefront of exploring how technology can enhance communication and storytelling. V. Michael Bove, Jr., a principal research scientist …

Felix Salmon:

The NYT doesn't care about posting primary documents — The NYT has a clear policy when it comes to primary sources — if you're writing about a certain document, then you should link to it, if it's online. Increasingly, the NYT's journalists are actually doing that.

Discussion: Techdirt

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Lebedev to give SoE conference lecture — Alexander Lebedev is to kick off the Society of Editors (SoE) conference in Glasgow in November by delivering the annual lecture. — The owner of the London Evening Standard and the two Independent titles is likely to choose press freedom as his theme.

Discussion: Society Of Editors, Journalism.co.uk, Jon Slattery and Press Gazette

Prescott Shibles / eMedia Vitals:

Should publishers trust Google's new paywall initiative? — Google is currently recruiting publishers for a new paid content system that will launch by the end of the year, according to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. While Google has positioned this move as a means of helping newspapers …

Discussion: BeAloud Digital Media News, Kirk LaPointe's … and paidContent:UK

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:

Does The iPad Change Everything? Publishers Chime In — We've fiercely debated the merits of the iPad (here and here and here and here) and whether Apple's “magical” device will transform the mass market. The question, of course, is not whether the iPad is the leader in the tablet market …

Discussion: DailyFinance, Garcia Media, 9 to 5 Mac and paidContent

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Thomson Reuters Smells a Rat — During a global real estate summit hosted by Thomson Reuters this week, two men in rat costumes pretending to be the company's CEO Tom Glocer and divisional CEO Devin Wenig interviewed people on the street about the company's alleged illegal pay cuts and use …

Financial Times:

AOL — It's reassuring to have prejudices confirmed; politicians are corrupt, blondes have more fun, and AOL is hopeless. The former internet giant on Thursday confirmed the sale of Bebo - a social networking site bought for $850m in 2008 - but did not disclose the likely nominal sale price.