Mediagazer: Twitter Fights Prosecutors Seeking Occupy Protester's Data Without Warrant (Andy Greenberg/The Firewall)

12:30 AM ET, May 9, 2012

Top News:

Rupert Murdoch's big backer sounds News Corp warning — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the second-biggest shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, has revealed his frustration with the fallout from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and admitted that it is harming the reputation …

Discussion: The Times, New York Magazine, Media Matters for America and Hillicon Valley

Patrick Wintour / Guardian: David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks before she quit NI, claims biography

Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Steering Murdoch in Scandal, Klein Put School Goals Aside

Discussion: Capital New York

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone-hacking scandal: Glenn Mulcaire denies protecting News International

Discussion: BBC

Free Press: 70,000 Petition Congress to Hold Hearings on News Corp. Corruption

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Andy Coulson wins leave to appeal over ruling on legal fees

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

The Independent: IoS exclusive: Coulson owned News Corp shares while at No 10

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch. Arrington “Not In The Least Bit Interested” — We weren't sure about this one at first, but now we have two independent sources confirming that AOL is exploring the sale of its cornerstone technology sites Engadget and TechCrunch.

Reuters:

Romeo Langlois: Colombia Won't Negotiate With FARC Rebels Over Kidnapped French Reporter — Colombia on Tuesday rejected a call by FARC rebels to debate freedom of information and news media bias as a condition for the release of a French reporter they hold hostage.

Discussion: BBC

Elyssa Pachico / Christian Science Monitor:

Is French journalist kidnapped in Colombia a prisoner of war? — In a video, Colombia's rebel group the FARC say French journalist Romeo Langlois is a prisoner of war (POW). The Colombian government has rejected this labeling. Who is correct? In the video (in Spanish) …

Discussion: Colombia Reports

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Writer fired by Chronicle of Higher Ed: ‘The vitriolic reaction is kind of surprising’ — The editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education has apologized and severed the publication's relationship with the writer of a blog post about Black Studies that “did not meet The Chronicle's basic editorial standards …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Brainstorm, Mother Jones, FishbowlDC and Racialicious

Jim Romenesko: Chronicle of Higher Education ousts blogger over black studies post

Christopher Shea / Wall St Journal:
Chronicle of an Academic-Media Firestorm

Discussion: msnbc.com, ArtsBeat and MetaFilter

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Ongo, an attempt at a pan-media paywalled aggregator, is closing — Less than a year and a half after launch, the subscription aggregation startup Ongo — a newspaper-industry effort to create a pan-media subscription system — is shutting down. It'll close its doors by month's end …

Discussion: AllThingsD, paidContent and @rafat

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Twitter Fights Prosecutors Seeking Occupy Protester's Data Without Warrant — Malcolm Harris, the Occupy Wall Street protestor whose private data Twitter is fighting to protect from prosecutors. — Twitter is stepping up its legal battle for users' privacy: First it fought …

Discussion: ACLU, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Techdirt, Gawker, WebProNews, Betabeat, @jcstearns and CNET

Keach Hagey / Digits:

LA Times Developer Begins Archiving Newspaper Websites — Newspaper front pages are considered such an important mirror of American culture that they get their own rotating daily museum exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. — But there has never been an equivalent archive for the more ephemeral …

Discussion: Poynter

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

ESPN and Theme Parks Drive Disney Profits — LOS ANGELES — Climbing ad sales and subscription fees at ESPN and cable channels like ABC Family helped the Walt Disney Company increase its quarterly profit by 21 percent from a year earlier, to $1.14 billion. — Disney's financial results …

Discussion: The Wrap, paidContent, Forbes, Multichannel, Company Town, LA Biz Observed and Home Media Magazine

Katherine Fung / Huffington Post:

New York Times Journalists Demand End To Contract Negotiations — New York Times staffers made another demand for the paper to end the dispute over their contract in a new video released on Monday. The video features Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Kevin Sack, Dan Barry and Amy Harmon urging …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Guardian: Yep, it was “major changes” by Facebook that caused drop in social reader traffic — Scary charts once again dominated the future of news yesterday when both Forbes and BuzzFeed wrote about what appeared to be sharp declines in the use of Facebook social reader apps …

Discussion: Poynter, GigaOM and SF Weekly

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:

Programming Politico's Future With Video — Last January in Iowa, Politico's tireless Mike Allen sequestered himself under fluorescent lights in a room with a laptop and his omnipresent BlackBerry and talked for well over five hours as Caucus results trickled in. There was no music, just raw politics.