Mediagazer: Bin Laden (and cats!) deliver record month for news sites (Andrew Phelps/Nieman Journalism Lab)

2:00 PM ET, June 1, 2011

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Henry Blodget / The Wire:

THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who? We're Crushing It! — A few months ago, when The Atlantic's biggest star, Andrew Sullivan, ran off with The Daily Beast, some folks worried that he would take The Atlantic's online business with him. — Nope! — Like a lot of other news sites …

Discussion: @mathewi and @jayrosen_nyu

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Bin Laden (and cats!) deliver record month for news sites — Jacob Weisberg, chairman of the Slate Group, tweeted an impressive statistic Tuesday afternoon: “Slate's biggest traffic month ever is ending with a sprint to 100m PVs.” — The final tally for May was 101 million pageviews …

Discussion: Bloggasm

Jenn Webb / O'Reilly Radar:

News organizations still party like it's 1899 — Ben Huh (@benhuh), CEO of the Cheezburger, Inc., loves his Cheezburger project, but he's also ready to have a fling with news. In a recent blog post, Huh addressed the stagnant state of news presentation and consumption, which he's hoping to address with his new project Moby Dick.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Web Hackings Rattle Media Companies — It might just be the most worrisome letter to the editor any news organization can receive. — PBS fought on Monday and Tuesday to restore the Web sites for two news programs on public television, “Frontline” and “PBS NewsHour,” …

Discussion: Company Town and eMedia Vitals

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Set to Land at NBC News — Former National Public Radio head Vivian Schiller, who left her last job under a political cloud, looks to have found a new position. She's in talks to work at NBC News, where she'll oversee digital projects.

Discussion: Mediaite

Felix Salmon:

Did the NYT hack Fabrice Tourre's email? — Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson have a long and rambling story about the court case against Goldman's Fabrice Tourre, which is mainly interesting for how it was sourced: … I'm sure this was extremely carefully formulated, but it does raise a lot of questions without answering them.

Discussion: New York Times, Litigation and Trial, Gawker, New York Magazine, Yahoo! News, The Atlantic Wire, CJR, The Atlantic Online, The Awl, The Wire and DealBook

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Fox News Launches Its iPad App [EXCLUSIVE] — Fox News is announcing Wednesday the release of its official iPad application, a visually-focused news experience with a big-name sponsor. — The app, which is now available [iTunes Link] in the App Store , was built from the ground up.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, rbr.com, Lost Remote, Editors Weblog and eMedia Vitals

Steve Rubel / The Next Web:

Why I adopted a scorched earth policy, dismantled two blogs and jumped to Tumblr — In military circles, a ‘scorched earth policy’ - according to Wikipedia - is “A strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through, or withdrawing from, a given theater of operations.”

Discussion: @macloo, Thanks:martinsfp

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How to publish news and reach your audience when your website goes down — When the PBS website came under attack by hackers this weekend, the Newshour staff took to publishing its news transcripts and videos to Tumblr instead. A month earlier, a TV station in Tallahassee, Fla. …

Discussion: PBS NewsHour, Lost Remote and Future of Journalism

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

5 reasons news organisations prefer in-house web publishing tools — At the end of the live blogging panel session at news:rewired, my colleague Matt Wells wanted to answer a question that had been posed on Twitter - if the PA can use ScribbleLive for their live blogging tools, why do the BBC feel the need to build their own?

Discussion: news:rewired

Richard Blackden / Telegraph:

Time Out to fund ticket expansion with Oakley capital injection — Time Out, the cultural listings guide that began in London in 1968, plans to accelerate its expansion online thanks to a fresh cash injection from a private equity firm. — Oakley Capital, a UK private equity firm …

Discussion: MediaPost and magCulture.com/blog

Nat Ives / AdAge:

As Magazines' Print Demos Drift Wrong Way, Publishers Anticipate Tablet Metrics — Shifts in Reader Age, Income May Be Reflective of Media Platform Migration — Some say magazines are rushing toward the iPad at the risk of undermining their existing business, but here's one reason they might …

Discussion: AppleInsider

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Glenn Beck's Mercury Radio Arts Extends Book Publishing Deal With Simon & Schuster — Glenn Beck's Mercury Radio Arts production company is extending its publishing partnership with Simon & Schuster. The companies, which have worked together since the 2003 publication of Beck's The Real America …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, The Wrap, GalleyCat, TVNewser, paidContent, On Media's Blog, mediabistro.com, The Atlantic Online and Slate

Richard M Kavuma / Guardian:

Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation | Richard M Kavuma — @Verdade's goal is to ‘feed the brain’ of people who barely manage to ‘feed the stomach’, proving information as a tool for development — When Jornal@Verdade hit the streets of the Mozambican capital …

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Les Filles du Blog — Although many intellectual and literary magazines have come under scrutiny lately for a lack of female bylines (yes, again; it's an annual event), two of those publication's blogs have become visible launch pads for female writers: The New Yorker Book Bench and the Paris Review Daily.