Mediagazer: The News Embargo Is Dead. TechCrunch Killed It. Let's Move On. (Wade Roush/Xconomy)

4:00 PM ET, May 6, 2011

Top News:

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Don't Leak to the Wall Street Journal's New Wikileaks Knockoff — The Wall Street Journal is trying to make a play for whistleblowers with its very own Wikileaks clone, SafeHouse. But SafeHouse is the opposite of safe, thanks to basic security flaws and fine print that lets the Journal rat on leakers.

Discussion: The Firewall, Guardian, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Betabeat, Techdirt and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Can The Wall Street Journal Replace WikiLeaks? — NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal wasnât on the receiving end of major WikiLeaks document dumps on Iraq, Afghanistan, the State Dept. and Guantanamo Bay. But the Journal may have found a way to cut out the middleman and convince leakers to go straight to the paper's editors.

Discussion: Mediactive, Journalism.org, Yahoo! News, Fast Company, Mashable!, mediabistro.com, Editors Weblog, eMedia Vitals, Pulse2, PSFK, The Atlantic Online and Mixed Media

Dow Jones:

WALL STREET JOURNAL STATEMENT REGARDING SAFEHOUSE SECURITY MEASURES AND ANONYMITY — We take these issues very seriously. Development for eliminating the flash dependency, which is required for Tor compatibility, is complete, and we expect to implement the update within 48 hours.

Discussion: Poynter and Talking Biz News

Peter Stevenson / New York Times:

Tina Brown Is Still Hungry for Buzz — Around sunset on a recent spring evening in Manhattan, a nervous-looking young woman was clutching a clipboard outside the entrance to the East 57th Street apartment belonging to Tina Brown and Harry Evans. Guests were shown into a large room filled …

Discussion: The Wire, The Awl, Adweek, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire and FishbowlNY

Krishna Bharat / Google News Blog:

Google News and the Coverage of Bin Laden — Google News was born in the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. An unprecedented act of terrorism on U.S. soil, by a foreign militant group led by Osama Bin Laden, changed the course of history.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, WebProNews, Google Earth Blog, The Daily Beast, NY Daily News and Guardian

SocialFlow Company Blog:

Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet — A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden's death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions …

Discussion: Betabeat, MediaShift and ABC News, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Book Publishers, AOL To Launch New Book Recommendation Site — Three big publishers and AOL are set to launch Bookish, a “new digital platform for readers”. Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group, and CBS' Simon & Schuster are backing the new site, which is supposed to launch this summer …

Discussion: paidContent, Thompson on Hollywood, it.einnews.com, eBookNewser, GalleyCat and Mobilized

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Swears He's Not Going to Kill HBO: “We Compete Like Football and Baseball” — So we've heard what Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes thinks about Netflix. What does Reed Hastings think about Time Warner? — He's full of good will, too!

Discussion: GigaOM, Multichannel and TVbytheNumbers

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

Christina Norman To Exit OWN, Peter Liguori To Take Over As Interim CEO — After a little over than 2 years on the job, Christina Norman is leaving as CEO of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Peter Liguori, COO of Discovery Communications, who has been hands-on involved in OWN …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, paidContent, @brianstelter and @pkafka

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Does Posting Things to Twitter Make You a Journalist? — There's been a lot of discussion about what the U.S. military strike on Osama bin Laden's compound says about the state of the media today, and the latest debate is whether Sohaib Athar — the Pakistani resident who live-tweeted the raid — is a journalist or not.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Editors Weblog, WebProNews, Poynter and The Atlantic Wire

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Condé leapfrogs Hearst in iPad digital mag derby — Conde Nast is very close to a deal to begin selling digital subscriptions via Apple's iPad. — The New Yorker will become the first publication from the S.I. Newhouse, Jr., empire to be available via subscription on the popular tablet …

Discussion: Future Journalism Project, Epicenter, Adweek, FishbowlNY and Bloggasm

Reuters:

Blavatnik's Access wins Warner Music bid - source — Billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access Industries has won the auction to take control of Warner Music Group Corp (WMG.N) with an offer of $8.25 a share, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The agreement, which is expected …

Discussion: Billboard.Biz, paidContent, Fast Company, MediaMemo, DealBook, rbr.com, Company Town and @pkafka

Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein named CEO of Tribune Co. — Eddy Hartenstein, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been named president and CEO of Tribune Co. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) — Los Angeles Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein was named chief executive of Tribune Co. …

Discussion: paidContent, Poynter, LA Observed, PR Newswire, Chicago Tribune and Business Wire

Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:

Flipboard Triples Daily Usage in Two Months After Speed Improvements — Flipboard, the leading social news app for iPad, has tripled daily usage in the last two months, CEO Mike McCue said in a chat on Thursday. The app now sees eight to nine million daily “flips.”

Chris Crum / WebProNews:

Demand Media Deletes eHow Articles, Edits Others in Quality Clean-up Initiative — It's a big day for Demand Media, with that earnings report and all. It will be very interesting to see how the stock goes. — We had the opportunity to chat with Larry Fitzgibbon, Demand Media's EVP …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Associated Press, VatorNews, Epicenter, Betabeat, MarketingVOX and Mixed Media

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Demand Media Reports A Better-Than-Expected Jump In Sales

Discussion: paidContent, Demand Media, Forbes, Investor Relations, MediaJobsDaily, SAI, Bloggasm, BoomTown, Pulse2, eMedia Vitals, Future of Journalism and The Wire

Alex Leo:

The Four Kinds of NYT Headlines — About the author — Alex Leo is a writer and internet enthusiast living in New York City. Her work has appeared on ABCNews.com, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Crushable and more. Leo was a senior editor at the Huffington Post and an associate producer at ABC News.