Top News:
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
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple still wants films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple's iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple …
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, The Awl, The Wire and DealBook
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Fox News Launches Its iPad App [EXCLUSIVE] — Fox News is announcing on 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:
Lost Remote and eMedia Vitals
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.
Discussion:
The Corsair
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 …
Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBCU Promotes Schiller to EVP, Digital Media Sales — Newly created role oversees ad sales for Fandango, iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl, Television Without Pity — Scott Schiller has been named executive vice president, digital media sales for NBCUniversal's entertainment & digital networks …
Discussion:
MediaPost and paidContent
Greg Masters / American Journalism Review:
Leaning Forward — The peripatetic John Solomon explains his move from the Center for Public Integrity to Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Posted: Tue, May 31, 2011 — Greg Masters (gmasters@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — John Solomon speaks very quickly …
Tim Carmody / Snarkmarket:
It's not the echo, it's the chamber — Eli Pariser's op-ed in the New York Times, “When the Internet Thinks It Knows You”: … The Times had run an earlier story on Pariser's The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You. It takes the easiest possible reading of this idea …
Discussion:
gigaom.com and Steve Rubel
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Men's & Women's Health Launch Search for Most Attractive Bodies on Facebook — Men's Health and Women's Health have launched a joint search for the fittest bodies to feature in their respective magazines — and they're doing so on Facebook. — From now until July 24 …
Discussion:
SocialTimes.com and Audience Development, Thanks:laureni
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
We're Down With OPC: Social Networking for Foreign Correspondents — Unrest in the Middle East has made 2011 a dangerous year for foreign correspondents. The Overseas Press Club (O.P.C.) is taking measures to improve their safety by reinventing the culture of mentoring …
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Can Twitter Survive the British Privacy Onslaught? — What is it that the British have against Twitter's legal department? Not only did the company become embroiled in a legal controversy in Britain surrounding a court order gagging the press from naming soccer player Ryan Giggs as an alleged adulterer …
Discussion:
Future of Journalism, Press Gazette and Guardian
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
‘Worst Persons’ Producer David Sarosi Tapped to Helm Current TV's ‘Countdown’ — Former MSNBC host and soon-to-be Current TV host Keith Olbermann has announced the production team for “Countdown.” — The show will be helmed by new executive producer David Sarosi.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel and On Media's Blog
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Adam Moss Brings Photo Director Jody Quon Back to ‘New York’ — My, that didn't take long, did it? Sometime in the past month, while nobody was looking, departed New York magazine photography director Jody Quon quietly snuck back onto the weekly's masthead, just below editor Adam Moss.
New York Times:
Retailers Offer Apps With a Catalog Feel — Mia Sara, 43, a Manhattan transplant in Los Angeles, misses window shopping in New York, but has found a replacement — shopping on her iPad. — “It's a reasonable facsimile of doing a little window shopping and maybe you stop in somewhere …
Thanks:jspepper