Mediagazer: Miguel Helft joins Fortune, as sr writer in San Fran, from NYT, where he covered Google, Apple, and Facebook etc (Nat Ives/@natives)

5:20 PM ET, June 20, 2011

Top News:

Ugly Details in Selling Newspapers — Any look behind the curtain of Wall Street is not going to be pretty. But there is not pretty and then there is plain ugly. — James O'Shea, the former editor in chief of The Los Angeles Times, found a classic of the genre in the course of reporting out …

Discussion: LA Observed, The Wire, The Atlantic Wire and Money & Company

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

CNN's Ed Henry Jumps To Fox News To Become Chief White House Correspondent — EXCLUSIVE: CNN's Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry is jumping ship. Fox News Channel is expected to announce later today that they have signed Henry as their Chief White House correspondent.

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists in exile 2011: Iran, Cuba drive out critics — Two of the world's most repressive nations each forced at least 18 journalists to flee their homes in the past year. In exile, these journalists face enormous challenges. A CPJ special report by Elisabeth Witchel. — LONDON

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Guardian

Deutsche Welle:

World needs journalists now more than ever, says expert — Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international non-profit organization run by journalists for journalists. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in New York, the CPJ campaigns for freedom …

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Spotlight on exiled journalists as foreign press crackdowns persist

Discussion: Guardian

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others — For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.

Discussion: SAI, ZDNet, Mashable!, Consumer Reports News, I4U News, Pocket-lint, 9 to 5 Mac, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Digital Media, more at Techmeme »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Meet The First Indie Publisher To Sell A Million Kindle Books — Amazon is touting its self-publishing platform today with the announcement that John Locke has become the first independently published author to become a member of the “Kindle Million club,” selling over 1 million Kindle books using Kindle Direct Publishing.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Future of Journalism, Business Wire, paidContent and Pocket-lint, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Future of media: The rise of the million-selling Kindle author

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer — Despite a professed designation as “America's Finest News Source,” The Onion has never actually won the highest honor in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize. — Not that it hasn't tried. Editors at the satirical newspaper have submitted …

Discussion: The Onion, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Wire, Salon, Adweek, PopWatch, FishbowlNY, Splitsider and Hit & Run

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Why We Often Blindside Companies — A couple of weeks ago I apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for writing about their acquisition without even contacting him to let him know beforehand or ask for a comment. He wrote back “the call would have been nice.” — I know how frustrating …

Discussion: AllThingsD, cdixon.org, Caterina.net, Betabeat, @furrier, @marshallk, @alexbraunstein, @tcarmody, @sarahcuda, @tcarmody, @megan, @gnat, ReadWriteWeb and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's Next? — Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier. — Here's the old version of the Hulu Plus subscription app for the iPad:

Discussion: SAI, PC Magazine, paidContent:UK, TUAW, AppleInsider, MacRumors, eBookNewser and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spin Magazine Fires Publisher and Editor — Spin, the alternative-music magazine founded in 1985, has fired its editor and publisher, a move that may be part of a larger transformation that will expand the publication's presence online. — On Friday the magazine, owned by Spin Media …

Discussion: paidContent, Yahoo! News, Folio, MediaPost, The Wire and FishbowlNY

David Bauder / Associated Press:

How MSNBC is surviving after Olbermann — NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Olbermann essentially invented the present-day MSNBC, but he didn't take it with him when he left. — As Olbermann prepares for his debut on Current TV on Monday night, the MSNBC he left behind has survived; its boss says it has thrived.

Discussion: Mediaite

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At New Network, Olbermann Sets Sights on MSNBC

Discussion: National Review, The Huffington Post, Company Town, TVNewser, Gawker, Daily Kos, Inside Cable News and Chickaboomer

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

Reinventing the article with Storify — Storify is one of the most exciting journalism tools of the year. The mission of the platform is to make social media the story not just the distribution tool, explained Xavier Damman, co-founder of the site. — “Storytelling has to be reinvented …

Noah Davis / The Wire:

LOVE: New York Magazine Launches Personals Site — Back in the pre-internet days, New York made millions on personal ads. Then the web arrived, and sucked that revenue stream dry. — On Monday, the magazine is venturing back into the personals territory in a big way.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and MediaPost

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Have newsrooms relaxed standards, sanctions for fabrication and plagiarism? — When the Chicago Sun-Times fired Paige Wiser for fabricating earlier this month, readers shared mixed reactions about whether the punishment was too harsh. — Wiser, who had been at the paper for 17 years …

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Display's New Kingpin: Facebook's No. 1 — Social Network's $2.19 Billion Puts It at Top of the Digital Heap, Leaping Google, Yahoo — but It's Still a Bit Player When Compared to TV — Facebook doesn't really have to try to become the biggest player in digital media; it simply is.

Discussion: Thompson on Hollywood, Softpedia News, Beet.TV, SAI and Future of Journalism

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Daily's Managing Editor Picton Leaves For Mail Online — Former Sun Online editor Pete Picton, who we revealed in September was called up to help launch News Corp.'s The Daily in New York, has now joined A&N Media's Mail Online as deputy publisher. — Picton was the managing editor of News Corp.'s iPad-only title.