Mediagazer: When a stream is just a trickle: Last Great Thing is one item a day, no archives (Andrew Phelps/Nieman Journalism Lab)

7:20 AM ET, May 6, 2012

Top News:

Yesterday The Boston Globe ended all your tomorrows — The Boston Globe has killed yesterday, today, and tomorrow. — In an announcement on BostonGlobe.com's Insiders blog, Charles Mansbach, the Globe's Page 1 editor, says the paper is doing away with the convention of using those terms in stories.

Discussion: @counternotions

James Hanning / The Independent:

IoS exclusive: Revealed - Cameron's secret summit with News Corp — David Cameron agreed to a meeting with one of Rupert Murdoch's senior executives that was arranged by the lobbyist now at the centre of the Jeremy Hunt scandal, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. senator likely to be rebuffed in News Corp inquiry

Discussion: Associated Press

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
David Cameron wins advance access to Leveson inquiry witness statements

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette and Telegraph

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Prismatic wants to be the newspaper for a digital age — What did the printed newspaper provide in its heyday as the information-delivery system of choice? A collection of news and other interesting content, selected by knowledgeable editors from a wide range of sources, presented in an easy-to-scan format.

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

When a stream is just a trickle: Last Great Thing is one item a day, no archives — Ever wish you could reduce the fire hose to a stream? The stream to a trickle? — Every day for a month, the News.me team is asking someone smart or interesting or Internet-famous to share the Last Great Thing …

Craig Lambert / Harvard Magazine:

Meta-journalism — FOR MOST of the twentieth century, newspapers were a relatively stable industry. Many operated essentially as local monopolies, so just standing pat they could make lots of money—e.g., a 20 to 30 percent profit margin from advertising sales and circulation …

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Al Jazeera's Webby Award-winning The Stream at one — The successes of The Stream, ‘a social media community with its daily TV show’, which was first broadcast on Al Jazeera English a year ago today — A year ago today Al Jazeera English was due to broadcast the first episode of a new social media TV show called The Stream.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A Twin Cities turnaround? The Star Tribune carves a path back through growing audience — In 2009, the Star Tribune found itself on a dubious list: The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America. That was the year Minnesota's largest daily entered into bankruptcy after rounds of cost-cutting …

Discussion: Wired

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL — Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …

Discussion: @buzzfeedben, @keachhagey, NYConvergence.com, FishbowlLA, New York Magazine, VentureBeat, NetNewsCheck Latest and Hollywood Reporter

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Does AOL need HuffPo more than HuffPo needs AOL?

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times confirms non-newsroom layoffs — I received multiple tips late Thursday about layoffs at the New York Times, including this report: … Another tipster says of Freeman: He was “one of the two go-to guys on news-department legal matters, from story vetting to fighting First Amendment cases.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Capital New York, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Carl Straumsheim / American Journalism Review:

Leaving the Newsroom to Launch Online Startups — Journalists embracing the entrepreneurial spirit. Weds., May 2, 2012. — Editorial assistant Carl Straumsheim (@cfstraumsheim, cstraumsheim@ajr.umd.edu) is a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Jim Romenesko:

Juan Williams rethinks NPR — Juan Williams was quick to accept a few million bucks from Roger Ailes and jump to Fox News after NPR gave him the boot. He then went on a non-stop NPR-bashing tour, accusing the radio network of being “elitist and white.” — Williams is singing a different tune …

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, Mediaite and TVNewser

Michael Nunez / International Business Times:

Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plus Discussion: Is The Information Provided Actually Relevant? — Google News has added features that will give readers realtime data surrounding news stories, but the company has failed to acknowledge Twitter and Facebook once again.

Discussion: SlashGear, The Verge and CNET

Business Week:

Discovery's Oprah Problem — Oprah Winfrey stood before advertisers and media executives in New York last month and offered a humble assessment of her effort to create OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Despite her popularity, the new cable channel attracts less than a 10th of the audience her syndicated TV show used to pull in.

Discussion: Company Town