Mediagazer: How a New York Times developer reverse engineered @Horse_ebooks -An Interesting (Andrew Phelps/Nieman Journalism Lab)

Frank Appleyard / Huffington Post Canada:

Postmedia Cuts: Layoffs Expected As Sunday Editions Nixed, National Post Reduces Publication — Postmedia Network, the owner of Canada's largest newspaper chain, has announced drastic cutbacks that will see three major city dailies lose their Sunday editions amid an expected wave of layoffs.

Discussion: Guardian, Poynter, ottawa.openfile.ca, GigaOM, Steve Ladurantaye and @syladurantaye

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Amid Tweets and Slide Shows, the Longform Still Thrives — In the age of 140-character tweets, aggregated blog posts and throwaway slide shows, common sense says you can't expect the Web generation's ADD-addled minds to spend more than a few minutes with any sort of content.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Atlantic Media business website, Quartz, staffs up and strategizes — Atlantic Media's forthcoming digital business title is taking shape with new hires and a clear editorial strategy. — Two months ago, Chris Batty, the former Gawker sales boss who'd just been tapped as publisher …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Promising writer, Yale grad Marina Keegan dies in weekend car accident — Marina Keegan died Saturday in a car accident in Dennis, Mass. She was 22. Keegan had just graduated from Yale University and was due to start a job at The New Yorker in early June.

Discussion: DealBook and Daily Mail

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How a New York Times developer reverse engineered @Horse_ebooks -An Interesting — Jacob Harris, a senior software architect at The New York Times, shares my obsession with @Horse_ebooks, the wise and mysterious Twitter spambot. @Horse_ebooks tweets nonsensical phrases …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

US documentary to highlight stories ‘fallen by the wayside’ — A team of former newspaper staffers in the US have spent the past three years producing a documentary which aims to highlight investigations that had “fallen by the wayside” when the journalists covering them lost their jobs.

Daily Mail:

Going Viral: No 10 press chief berates BBC man — As the Leveson Inquiry investigates the relationship between politicians and the media, a video emerges which shows the tensions between Downing Street and the BBC over the latter's coverage of...the Leveson Inquiry.

Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Blair says newspapers used as ‘instruments of political power’

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, @tomjharper, Press Gazette and @hackinginquiry

Guardian:
Tony Blair accused of war crimes by protester at Leveson inquiry

Discussion: @skynewsbreak, @skynewsbreak and Associated Press

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Woman arrested over alleged money laundering

Discussion: @joshhalliday, Guardian and Press Gazette

Sarah Adler / San Francisco Chronicle:

Kara Swisher discusses life, D: All Things Digital — There are news junkies, and then there is Kara Swisher. Given the nickname “tempesta” by her Italian relatives (Italian for storm), the Princeton, N.J., native was curious, tenacious and fiery at a young age and has always been interested in reporting and telling people's stories.

Harry Shearer / The Huffington Post:

Could New York Be Wronger About New Orleans? — LOS ANGELES — As most anybody knows who cares about newspapers, the absentee owners of the New Orleans Times-Picayune have announced plans to quit daily print publication of the paper, turning to a Wednesday-Friday-Sunday schedule …

Discussion: New York Times

Dan Roberts / Guardian:

Guardian journalist and police officer not charged over ‘phone-hacking leak’ — The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute a police officer alleged to have passed information about the phone-hacking scandal to the Guardian during early stages of the inquiry.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Associated Press:

Colombian rebels release video of captured French reporter they say will soon be free — BOGOTA, Colombia — The Venezuelan TV network Telesur broadcast Monday the first video images of a French journalist captured a month ago by Colombian rebels, who say they plan to release him on Wednesday.

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

BBC mistakenly uses image of Iraq in Syrian massacre story — A 2003 photo taken in Iraq was mistakenly used by the BBC website to illustrate a report about the recent massacre in Houla, Syria. The Daily Telegraph reports that the image of a child jumping over body bags was removed from the story after the BBC realized its error.