Mediagazer: New York Times Reporter Blasts Boss In Email to 150 of His Best Friends (John Cook/Gawker)

3:40 PM ET, April 10, 2012

Top News:

Guardian moves into journalism training business — Guardian News and Media is set to diversify into journalism training. — The newspaper group, which made losses before tax of £33m last year, is understood to be set to launch a course offering training in digital journalism at a cost …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Guy Fawkes' blog and NetNewsCheck Latest

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

63 Minutes With Alan Rusbridger — The Guardian is a very different kind of beast from other papers," Alan Rusbridger tells me, strolling through the British newspaper's new American office, a bright-white Soho loft with rows of bright-white tabletops—almost a fantasy of European cool. "

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

The Guardian Lost $50 Million Last Year — The Guardian is widely respected for breaking such huge stories as the News International phone hacking scandal, but Alan Rusbridger, its Edit0r-in-Chief, knows that while admiration is nice, money is necessary. He tells New York that the fantastic paper lost …

Jesselyn Radack / Salon:

Obama targets journalists — For two years I have been writing about the criminalization of whistleblowing, or as Glenn Greenwald has put it more aptly, the “war on whistleblowers.” I'm an attorney with the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower organization.

Discussion: Government Accountability …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

More journalists linked to case charging ex-CIA officer with leaks about interrogators — The identities of journalists who allegedly received illegal leaks from former CIA officer John Kiriakou are spilling into the public domain in the wake of his indictment last week on charges that he disclosed …

Discussion: MOTHERBOARD and Techdirt

John Cook / Gawker:

New York Times Reporter Blasts Boss In Email to 150 of His Best Friends — A few weeks ago, New York Times science and health reporter Don McNeil sent out a scathing email to colleagues attacking Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. for piloting a “ghost ship” and running off to the Himalayas …

Discussion: New York Magazine, National Review, FishbowlNY and The Daily Caller

Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:

Watergate and the Internet: A Cautionary Tale From Bob Woodward — Last Tuesday at the American Society of News Editors annual conference, on a panel called “Watergate 4.: How Would the Story Unfold in the Digital Age?” veteran investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, The Verge, Jay Rosen and Tech President

Guido Fawkes:

Motorman: Britain's Biggest Establishment Cover-Up Thousands of Crimes Committed By Over 300 Journalists Protected from Exposure by a Judge and Newspaper Editors — If a police-led investigation uncovered thousands of crimes committed by over 300 suspected serial criminals …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Digital Spy and Journalism.co.uk

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Operation Motorman: Guido Fawkes under fire over publication of files

Discussion: @GuidoFawkes, Hacking inquiry and Journalism.co.uk

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Coming soon: the Twitter story penned by the Times' Nick Bilton — I am in New York, and obviously meeting a lot people in the publishing business. Word on the street is that Nick Bilton, the technology columnist at The New York Times, has just agreed to a deal with Penguin Portfolio for a book about Twitter.

Discussion: Nick Bilton

Reuters:

Ruling moves Tribune closer to bankruptcy exit — Tribune Co, the bankrupt publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, moved closer to ending its three-year bankruptcy after a judge resolved lingering disputes about the order in which noteholders should be repaid.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it's a button — As he has shown with books like “Here Comes Everybody” and his ideas about how the “cognitive surplus” has created a crowdsourcing explosion, Clay Shirky has a way of putting his finger on trends in media …

Discussion: Techdirt and eMedia Vitals

The Fox Mole / Gawker:

Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee — What follows is the inaugural column of a person we are calling The Fox Mole—a long-standing, current employee of Fox News Channel who will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches from inside the organization.