Mediagazer: News Outlets Preserve Privacy by Giving Users Ways to Mute Facebook's Frictionless Sharing (Josh Constine/Inside Facebook)

Dan Roberts / Guardian:

The Guardian is opening up its newslists so you can help us make news — Get in touch with reporters and editors via Twitter and have your say during our open newsdesk trial — Few documents are more carefully guarded in newspaper offices than the newslist.

Discussion: 10,000 Words and eMedia Vitals

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Fox News and Hannity at the Top After 15 Years — ATLANTA — When the Fox News host Sean Hannity arrived at Centennial Olympic Park here on Thursday night, some of the hundreds of fans who had been waiting for him since sunset rushed to the rope line for handshakes and autographs.

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Reliable Sources Panel Analyzes The Difference Between Tea Party And Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage — One of the biggest criticisms of the media's Occupy Wall Street coverage is that it has been generally less dismissive of Tea Party protests in the past and hasn't been nearly as kind to the Wall Street protestors.

Discussion: Media News, ThinkProgress, Gawker, Forbes, The New York Observer and AdAge

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos, bookforum.com, Future of Journalism, Big Journalism, The Huffington Post, Forbes, The New York Observer, The Book Bench and The Week

Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:

News Outlets Preserve Privacy by Giving Users Ways to Mute Facebook's Frictionless Sharing — Several news outlets are testing different interfaces that let their readers opt out of sharing their reading activity to Facebook. Since gaining the ability at last month's f8 …

Discussion: Softpedia News and Future of Journalism

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

Demand Media Is Cutting Back On Its Massive Volume Of Writing — In an email sent to Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers the company laid out a rather significant shift in strategy. — The so-called “content farm” is cutting back, a process it mentioned in its Q1 report.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Miguel Paz / MediaShift Idea Lab:

How Mobile Phones Could Bring Public Services to People in Developing Countries — In Santiago, Chile, more than 60 percent of the poorest citizens don't have access to the Internet. In the rest of the country, that number increases to 80 percent, and in rural areas, an Internet connection is almost nonexistent.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

Yahoo Drops Out Of Hulu Bidding — Yahoo has dropped out of the bidding for Hulu, reports the Wall Street Journal, leaving only the Dish Network, Amazon, and Google among the companies who are still bidding for the online TV provider. — The Journal report also confirms several items …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Electronista

Kate Zernike / New York Times:

Between Journalist and Advocate: The Amanda Knox Case — IN the news media's frenzy surrounding an Italian court's decision last week to free Amanda Knox, the American exchange student convicted of killing her roommate in Perugia, the journalist Nina Burleigh was a near-constant television presence.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Al-Jazeera's chief extols virtues of ‘journalism for the people’ — The revolutionary fervour of the Arab Spring came alive last night at City University London in a lecture by Wadah Khanfar, the former director general of Al-Jazeera. — In describing his reaction to the various uprisings …

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Adventures in self-publishing: SplatF's first quarterly report — Holy cow, it's already been three months since I started publishing SplatF. Among other clichés: Time flies when you're having fun. — As I've noted all along, one of the reasons I'm doing this is to see if self-publishing online is a viable business.

Andrew Goldfarb / IGN:

Scoop: Toy Story Scribes May Pen Farmville Film — The social franchise may be headed to the big screen. — In an interview about their work on upcoming game Skylanders Spyro's Adventures, Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen have revealed that they're currently in talks to pen a film based on Farmville.

Discussion: Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Joystiq, /Film and New York Magazine

Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:

The TV Watch: ‘The Early Show’ on CBS Is Sober but Stronger — There isn't much news you can use on “The Early Show” on CBS. It no longer offers dieting tips, barbecue recipes or audience makeovers. There are no pop concerts or “Growing Pains” cast reunions.

Discussion: TVNewser