Mediagazer: Jenna Wortham: What I Read (Adam Clark Estes/The Atlantic Wire)

The Cozy Compliance of the News Corp. Board — If you sat on the board of a company that was raked over the coals by a British parliamentary committee in a 121-page document, accused of a pattern of corporate misconduct that included widespread phone hacking and an ensuing cover-up by senior officials …

Discussion: Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, New York Magazine, @antderosa and Associated Press

Discussion: Guardian

Bill Keller / New York Times:

Murdoch's Pride Is America's Poison — ROGER AILES is (a) the genius who midwifed the astoundingly successful Fox News; (b) the sharpest thorn in the side of Barack Obama; and (c) the most important surviving officer in Rupert Murdoch's global media army. — You can see why he would be a great subject for a biography.

Discussion: Commentary Magazine and Mediaite

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

‘60 Minutes’ Gets Younger, and Its Viewers Do Too — The oldest newsmagazine on television, “60 Minutes,” might have figured out how to halt the aging process. — Purposefully but almost imperceptibly, the CBS News program, the most popular of its genre, has become younger in recent years.

Discussion: Poynter and Chickaboomer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Google Gets Deeper Into the Content Business, By Putting Money Into Machinima — Google has been handing out money to video-makers so they'll make more stuff for YouTube. Now it's putting money into a video-maker itself. The search giant is set to invest in Machinima …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:

Tom Brokaw blasts the White House Correspondents Association dinner. — On Meet the Press Sunday, Tom Brokaw of NBC News, an iconic figure in broadcast journalism, ripped into the annual ritual that media people in DC call “the prom,” hoping that their gentle ridicule of it will defuse …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @davepell and @antderosa

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

Jenna Wortham: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers.

Discussion: NYConvergence.com and Snarkmarket

Isabel Kershner / New York Times:

Arab Spring Spurs Palestinian Journalists to Test Free Speech Limits — RAMALLAH, West Bank — Yousef Shayeb, 37, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah, published an article in a Jordanian newspaper this year charging officials at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Paris with corruption and espionage.

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Matthieu Aikins / CJR:

How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks — How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks — Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister.

Rani Molla / The Content Strategist:

AP's Carvin Says Social Media Can Make Journalism Better — Eric Carvin, who became the Associated Press social media editor in January, has an ambitious yet simple goal: for all of AP's 2,500 journalists to use social media and use it well. That means using it not just to promote stories, but to make stories better.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter, World War II and the death of official secrets — We've had plenty of examples over the past couple of years of how Twitter can be used to break news, especially news that official sources don't want revealed, and we got another one this week when the Obama administration tried …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Stijn Debrouwere / stdout.be:

FUNGIBLE — We don't realize how much news media has changed in the past fifteen years. We really don't. I'm not talking about digital first or about blogging or about data journalism or the mobile web or the curation craze. Yes, journalism has evolved and is better for it. I'm talking beyond that.