Mediagazer: Bob Sapio Out at Daily News (Kat Stoeffel/The New York Observer)

Neil Chenoweth / Australian Finance Review:

Whistleblower made to change his tune — Senior executives in Rupert Murdoch's media empire mounted a sham multimillion-dollar lawsuit in the United States to silence a whistleblower whose evidence threatened to expose a dirty tricks campaign by News Corp. A former Metropolitan Police commander …

From Sicily to the US courts - the trail of evidence could hit Murdoch where it hurts — News Corporation cannot afford to put a foot wrong. However uncomfortable the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal has been for Rupert Murdoch in the UK, wider questions about the way News Corp …

Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:

Free to air: dirty tricks broadcast for all to see — A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Investigation will have made interesting viewing for Ofcom's News Corp team

BBC:
Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival

Discussion: Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, The Verge and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Startup Aims at CNN, Fox — Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again. The Huffington Post co-founder, who sold his site to AOL a year ago, is working on another Web news startup.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Mohamed Nanabhay on Al Jazeera's online growth and the future of news distribution — Mohamed Nanabhay likes to talk about something he calls “distributed distribution,” which, aside from being delightfully alliterative, might be a kind of rallying cry for the future of media.

Discussion: @evanchill

Discussion: BBC

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Inquirer publishes investigation of possible future owner; also, a report of more layoffs — Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., is the state's largest hospital. Its chairman is George E. Norcross III, who is also part of a consortium of investors looking to buy the Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com.

Discussion: Philly.com and newsworks

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

BBC News cuts: 140 posts to go — BBC News journalists have been told about 140 posts are to go and programmes including Radio 4 current affairs output cut as part of the “Delivering Quality First” cost savings. BBC2's Newsnight and the BBC News Channel will be affected by the cuts …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Mike Janssen / Current.org:

Digital journalists look for lessons in work of NPR's one-man newsroom … On a recent afternoon at NPR, Andy Carvin was watching a video of a protest purportedly shot in the Syrian city of Homs, a locus of that country's uprising against its repressive regime.

Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:

How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest — While Pinterest is taking many newsrooms by storm, there may still be some editors who are hesitant or unsure about how to go about using the online scrapbooking site. Why not take a page — or in this case a board — from The Wall Street Journal?

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, SocialTimes, Poynter and Talking Biz News

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Jill Abramson talks Israel-Iran coverage — The New York Times has turned out a great deal of coverage in recent weeks over the potential conflict between Israel and Iran, a highly charged and heavily scrutinized topic that always earns criticism from voices on both the left and the right.

Discussion: Capital New York

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

The Future of Magazines Should Look a Lot Like Spotify — The options we have for reading magazine journalism in the digital format are pretty sad. We live in an era of self-driving cars, augmented reality, and we can keep a map of the entire planet in our pocket, but we are stuck reading …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and TechNodeTechNode

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Blackhurst: Why Leveson Inquiry is ‘deepy flawed’ — The Leveson Inquiry into press standards is “deeply flawed”, according to the editor of The Independent. — Chris Blackhurst has also claimed that “if the Guardian had actually realised how to work a mobile phone” the inquiry would never have been set up.

Discussion: @hughes_mark, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and Guardian

Discussion: Telegraph

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Bob Sapio Out at Daily News — The Daily News said goodbye to managing editor Robert Sapio on Friday, according to newsroom sources. — His departure marks the end of a 40-plus-year career at the News. Mr. Sapio first joined the tabloid as an advertising office boy in 1969.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Chandra Johnson Greene / Stamford Patch:

CT Man Sues Journalist, NBC Universal for Libel — A civil lawsuit in which a New Canaan-based trader alleges a town woman and NBC Universal libeled him online is expected to go before a judge on May 4. According to the suit, filed in January in state Superior Court in Stamford …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Al Sharpton's Conflicting Roles in the Trayvon Martin Case — He leads a Trayvon Martin rally and covers it for MSNBC. — Al Sharpton, who has been crusading in racial cases for three decades, has claimed a starring role in the Trayvon Martin case. — He's also assumed a starring role in MSNBC's coverage of the case.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, Gawker, The Raw Story, Tampa Bay Times, Forbes and New York Times

Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, Poynter, Riptide 2.0, Business Insider and Strollerderby