Mediagazer: Interview: Pete Cashmore Hopes Mashable Follow Will Help Give Readers Their Own Voice (Neil Vidyarthi/SocialTimes.com)

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘All Sorts Of Inside Information’ — There's been plenty of discussion of Jonathan Tasini's recent lawsuit against The Huffington Post and AOL (NYSE: AOL), much of it critical. When Arianna Huffington replied late yesterday, saying that the suit was nonsense …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Bloggasm, GalleyCat, Poynter, Gawker, Working Life, Globe and Mail, Runnin' Scared, Future of Journalism, L.A. Times Tech Blog and New York Observer

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Code — There's been a lot of sturm und drang recently about the lawsuit that some bloggers have launched against The Huffington Post, arguing they deserve to be compensated for their writing, despite having agreed to provide their work knowing full well they wouldn't be paid.

Discussion: MediaPost and MediaVidea

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
An Hour In A Room With Arianna Huffington (Guest Starring Biz Stone!)

Discussion: Media News International and Communications …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Wired's Newest iPad Issue Boasts Its Best Feature Yet: Free — Remember when iPad magazine apps-and Wired's app in particular-were big news? That was a year ago. — Now Wired would like to remind you that it's still publishing on the iPad, and the Conde Nast title is offering a pretty …

Discussion: AdAge, FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News, MacStories and Poynter

Mark Milian / CNN:

Facebook trying to ‘friend’ journalists — New York (CNN) — Facebook is taking major steps to ensure that its News Feeds contain more actual news. — The social media giant is hiring someone to build relationships with reporters and news organizations. The new hire also will help …

Discussion: Poynter, VentureBeat, Tech President, Facebook, eMedia Vitals, Lost Remote, @lavrusik and Soup

New York Post:

Drama for magazines after soap opera slash — The upheaval in soap opera land yesterday — ABC shut down two long-running soaps, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” — also produced some major upheavals in the publishing world. — Source Interlink, which publishes soap titles Soap Opera Digest …

Discussion: Adweek and FishbowlNY

Source Interlink, American Media set licensing deal for Soap Opera Weekly, other titles — Source Interlink is shedding staff and turning its struggling soap opera titles, along with a handful of other magazines, to American Media Inc. — Soap Opera Weekly, Soap Opera Digest …

Kelly Reeves / The Outbrain Blog:

Outbrain Study Gives Insight Into Content Discovery Trends Across the Web's Leading Publishers — We're excited to announce our inaugural study on how people discover and engage with content on the web! — In the first quarter of 2011, for the first time ever, we decided to analyze …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, WebProNews and Search Engine Land, Thanks:nitwitty

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller Hires Ex-Issa Spokesman — The Daily Caller has hired Kurt Bardella, the former spokesman for Republican Rep. Darrell Issa who was fired last month following a leaked email controversy, as the site's new communications director.

Sharon Shahid / Newseum:

Handwritten Newspapers From Ravaged Japan at Newseum — When the worst earthquake in Japan's history and the subsequent tsunami knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, editors at the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, the city's daily newspaper, printed news of the disaster the only way they could: by pen and paper.

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter and MediaVidea

Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:

Interview: Pete Cashmore Hopes Mashable Follow Will Help Give Readers Their Own Voice — Ten minutes after walking out of The Social Network, my girlfriend's 14 year old brother declared he'd start his own social network, make millions and live with his friends in California.

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Newsweek's Future: Sidney's Gone, What About Barry? — This morning's papers were full of hand-wringing about what will happen to Newsweek now that its savior, stereo magnate Sidney Harman, has passed away. After all, Harman bought the magazine for $1 and assumed a reported $47 million in debt …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY and New York Times

Andrew Hammond / Reuters:

Gulf media find their red line in uprisings: Bahrain — DUBAI (Reuters) - Pan-Arab broadcasters who played a key role reporting Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are helping dynastic rulers police the gates of the Gulf to stop the revolts from spreading on their patch, analysts say.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:

Would You Sign My Kindle? — SITTING at a table in a Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg, Fla., T. J. Waters was signing copies of his book “Hyperformance” when a fan standing in line with the eBook version walked up and said, “It's too bad you can't sign my Kindle.”

Discussion: TeleRead and Techland

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

No Bob Woodward, Google Did Not Kill Newspapers — The tombstone of Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt will read “I killed newspapers,” Bob Woodward said yesterday. With all due respect to the celebrated reporter and author, this is a misguided way of looking at Google, or newspapers, for at least three reasons.

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Should a journalism school be hosting ‘off the record’ public events? Graydon Carter thinks so! — On Thursday evenings in the winter and spring, Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism hosts a lecture series. The idea is for established magazine editors to share informal observations …

Discussion: Poynter and WWD Media Headlines