Mediagazer: Caught Between the Protests and the Police (James Estrin/New York Times)

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Emails reveal new details about Arianna's role in HuffPo founding, ‘cover-up’ alleged — A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Mixed Media

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Huffington Post live video strategy takes shape with new hires, a new name — Huffington Post staffers got a progress report last week on the site's plans for live streaming video. Originally billed during a splashy press event back in February as The Huffington Post Streaming Network …

Erik Wemple:

New York Times public editor to leave in September — New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane will leave his position on Sept. 1 of this year, completing a two-year term as in-house watchdog for the paper. The departure means that Brisbane will not serve the one-year option on his contract …

Discussion: Media Decoder, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NPR creates news applications team as part of strategy for ‘multimedia audio’ — NPR announced to staff Monday that it is creating a team to build news applications and has hired the Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer to lead it. — The announcement represents a big bet on news applications …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, NetNewsCheck Latest and CJR

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Supreme Court Passes on File-Sharing Case, but Still No End Is in Sight — The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in one of the record industry's longest-running cases over unauthorized file-sharing. — The court effectively let stand a jury's $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum …

Discussion: Techdirt, Techland, CNET and PC Magazine

Supreme Court to decide if journalists can sue over warrantless wiretaps — Lawsuit argues that 2008 FISA bill violates the Fourth Amendment. — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a coalition of human rights groups and journalists has standing to challenge the 2008 FISA Amendments Act.

Discussion: New York Times

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Why the Waterstones/Amazon deal could hurt Waterstones — UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced today that it's partnering with Amazon to sell the Kindle in its 294 stores starting this fall. — The deal is bad news for Barnes & Noble, which was rumored to be working with Waterstones on a deal of its own.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Shatzkin Files and Melville House Books

Discussion: Bookseller news, The Independent, BBC and Brave New World

James Estrin / New York Times:

Caught Between the Protests and the Police — There were hundreds of photographers covering the Occupy Wall Street protests when Alex Arbuckle arrived at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan last September. — Some were daily newspaper or wire service photographers, others …

Discussion: Free Press

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

It's Official: Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer to Anchor ‘Good Afternoon America’ — As TVNewser reported back in April, Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer will anchor an early-afternoon spinoff of ABC's “Good Morning America” called, appropriately, “Good Afternoon America.”

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and TVSpy

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Roger Ailes Talks Negotiations With ‘Non-Neutral’ AP, His ‘Fluke’ Career — Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave a very candid interview to WOUB, a public radio station in Athens, Ohio, where he was in town to speak at his alma mater, Ohio University. — Among other topics (many of them Ohio-centric …

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Houghton Mifflin files Chapter 11 bankruptcy — May 21 (Reuters) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc, whose textbooks have been a staple in American schoolhouses for decades, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday after agreeing with creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt.

Discussion: Publishers Weekly and Publishers Weekly

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology — BOSTON — The head of one of the country's biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network's ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto Hop.

Discussion: Multichannel

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone hacking: 7/7 bombing victim sues News of the World publisher — A victim of the 7/7 London bombings is suing the publisher of the News of the World after police said his voicemails were targeted by the now-closed Sunday tabloid. Professor John Tulloch, one of the most high-profile survivors …

Discussion: Guardian

Discussion: Guardian, @rosschawkins and This Is London