Mediagazer: New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel (Ryan Chittum/CJR)

10:00 AM ET, June 14, 2012

Top News:

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Police advised not to pursue prosecution of Guardian journalist — The Crown Prosecution Service has advised Scotland Yard that it is not in the public interest to pursue a prosecution against the Guardian journalist David Leigh for hacking a voicemail as part of an investigation into corrupt arms deals.

Discussion: Editor's Blog and Press Gazette

Telegraph:

Phone Hacking: Sun reporter and prison officer among trio arrested in illegal payments inquiry — The men and a woman were arrested during dawn raids this morning at three separate addresses in Northamptonshire and London. The trio were held as part of Operation Elveden, Scotland Yard's inquiry into payments to public officials.

Guido Fawkes:

Rebekah to Dave: “We're in this Together” — Tomorrow's papers have their headline. Here is what Rebekah Brooks texted Cameron on the eve of his 2009 conference speech:

Guardian:
David Cameron tells Leveson: alleged Tory plot with News Corp is nonsense

Discussion: Guardian, @joshhalliday, Guardian and BBC

Guardian:
David Cameron admits close friendships with journalists

Discussion: Press Gazette and Digital Spy

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Lessons from the Motor City: What New Orleans might expect when the printing presses slow — DETROIT — It was exactly the kind of story you want a newspaper for: In 2008, Detroit Free Press reporters uncovered a trove of incriminating text messages that ultimately led to the resignation …

Discussion: Gannett Blog, NetNewsCheck Latest and Jack Lessenberry

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel — The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market AnnArbor.com looks set to bring journalism built on “motion for motion's sake... volume without thought” to a city built on doing the opposite.

Discussion: GigaOM and Poynter

Jim Amoss / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

The message for our organization is clear: adapt, or fade away — In the early morning hours of Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina churned toward the coast of Louisiana and the winds began to pick up in New Orleans, the power went out at The Times-Picayune. The presses stopped, as did the white noise of air conditioning.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why your news organization's social media policy may be illegal — If Barrett Tryon does get fired today by Freedom Communications, as he expects, he may find the National Labor Relations Board has his back. — Tryon, a multimedia journalist at the Colorado Springs Gazette …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Inside Cable News and JD Supra

Jim Romenesko:
Freedom paper tells reporter to remove LAT story from Facebook wall

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple, Time Inc. Solve Their Subscription Squabble — Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. — If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Would you buy a .boston domain from The Boston Globe? — The Boston Globe wants to open up a new line of business: selling domain names. — The Globe is among a number of organizations that are vying for a new series of web suffixes like .yoga, .android, .hockey and .kindle.

Discussion: Multichannel, eMedia Vitals, Wired, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, MediaNama, Pocket-lint, Gawker, WWD Media Headlines, Reuters, Politico, Poynter and The Verge

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Digital Notes: Plans for a New .Music Suffix, but Who Will Own It?

Discussion: Betabeat, Billboard.Biz and New York Times

Kevin Morris / Daily Dot:

Reddit bans “The Atlantic,” “Businessweek,” others in major anti-spam move — Reddit just dropped the banhammer. — As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights The Atlantic and PhysOrg.

Discussion: Poynter, eMedia Vitals, Mixed Media, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, tumblr.thefjp.org and Mashable!

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
Reddit: Ban on Businessweek and The Atlantic Is Temporary

Discussion: The FJP

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Publishing makes some e-books available to other retailers — Amazon is selling at least two Amazon Publishing e-books in other digital bookstores, Publishers Lunch discovered (paywall) last night. Until now, it has sold its e-books exclusively through the Kindle Store.

Ken Dilanian / Los Angeles Times:

Panetta denies classified Bin Laden information leaked to Hollywood — WASHINGTON - Disputing allegations by some Republican lawmakers, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta denied Wednesday that any classified information or material was given to the Hollywood producers of a planned film …

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

FCC: Cable operators can stop providing analog signals of local TV — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (Associated Press / June 12, 2012) — In a move that has upset the broadcast industry, the Federal Communications Commission said it will let lapse a rule that required cable operators to carry local television signals in analog.