Mediagazer: Pakistan's Twitter Diplomacy on Journalist Visas (Amol Sharma/India Real Time)

12:55 PM ET, May 6, 2011

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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.

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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.

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The Atlantic Online:
The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

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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 …

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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!

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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. …

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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 …

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Fox ends contracts of Gingrich, Santorum — Fox News has terminated its contracts with former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum after the deadline for them to decide on presidential bids passed on May 1, a source familiar with the move told POLITICO.

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.

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 …

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Amol Sharma / India Real Time:

Pakistan's Twitter Diplomacy on Journalist Visas … In the past few days, India-based journalists have found it impossible to get a visa to go to Pakistan and cover the fallout of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. — But a complaint on Twitter by NDTV's Barkha Dutt apparently got …

Simon Owens / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A place for Homicide Watch: Can a local blog fill some of the gaps in Washington, D.C.'s crime coverage? — While I was sitting with Laura and Chris Amico in their apartment in the Adams Morgan area of Washington, D.C., Chris suddenly sat upright and began reading aloud a comment that had just come …

Wade Roush / Xconomy:

The News Embargo Is Dead. TechCrunch Killed It. Let's Move On. — Wade Roush wrote: — My passion is for storytelling, and the stories that fascinate me most are about new technologies, how they're brought into being, and how they're changing everyday life.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

As If The Switch From AOL News To HuffPo Isn't Confusing Enough — AOL News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the younger site. It's confusing enough right now for those used to going to the site …

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TMZ.com:

Katie Couric On the Verge of $20 Million ABC Deal — Katie Couric and ABC television are on the verge of signing a $20 million deal, which would give Katie her own talk show, as well as significant involvement in ABC News — and the big casualty could be “General Hospital.”