Mediagazer: The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com are here to stay (Ricky Mathews/New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Police study Murdoch's ‘secret’ iPhone account — Scotland Yard detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World are examining the call records of four newly discovered Apple iPhones issued to senior executives at News International. The smartphones, issued by O2 …

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Wendi Murdoch Is Creating a Career of Her Own — LAST January, Amy Chua got an unexpected e-mail just before an excerpt from her provocative child-rearing manual, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” appeared in The Wall Street Journal. It was from Wendi Murdoch, the wife of Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns The Journal.

Discussion: Gothamist and Gannett Blog

Greg Cox / Expletive Inserted:

Lessons from the Failure of Readability's Author Payment Plan — Yesterday Readability announced that they were shutting down their experiment to take payments on behalf of authors and then distribute them (minus a 30% cut) to those authors. The announcement talks about learning from the experiment …

Discussion: TeleRead

Ricky Mathews / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com are here to stay — Each of us has defining moments in our life. For me, surviving the pounding waves of Katrina with my family at our Back Bay home in Biloxi was, thank God, one of them. The day I decided to work at a newspaper was another.

Discussion: Poynter, @deanstarkman, Gambit New Orleans News …, @jeffjarvis and Gambit New Orleans News …

David Carr / New York Times:

Digital Media's Ever-Swifter Incursion — Last Wednesday night on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel, all the signs of the classic magazine launch party were on display: an open bar ringed by thirsty media reporters, groaning trays of shrimp, a D.J. playing music just soft enough that it didn't drown out the chatter.

Mona Zhang / 10,000 Words:

Panel of Techno-Optimists: The Shift to Social and Who's Doing it Right — (L to R) David Carr of The New York Times, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, WaPoLabs Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large Rob Malda, and Flipboard Editorial Director Josh Quittner.

Chris Zappone / Sydney Morning Herald:

Fairfax to shed 1900 staff, erect paywalls — Fairfax Media will cut 1900 staff and erect paywalls on the websites of its two main metropolitan newspapers as it adjusts to shrinking advertising revenue. — Fairfax, publisher of this website, will also shift to compact-sized versions …

Discussion: ABC News and Crikey

Associated Press:

Ahmed Bahaddou, Associated Press Journalist, Wounded In Syria — A video journalist covering the Syrian uprising for The Associated Press was wounded while filming clashes between rebels and the Syrian army. Ahmed Bahaddou, a Belgian citizen, was struck in the shoulder by a bullet during …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Rani Molla / The Content Strategist:

Reuters' De Rosa Wants Social Media at Center Stage — This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journalism going. — Anthony De Rosa did not begin …

Peter Ha / TechCrunch:

Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow — There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet.

Discussion: AllThingsD, CNET, LA Observed, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, The Verge, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Techland, GeekWire, Engadget, Business Insider, TeleRead and Gizmodo

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Google (Ad) Singularity — Next Wednesday, Google hosts an all-day assemblage of news publishers in New York City. It won't be the first meeting, but it's an intriguing time to be talking “partnership” with news media. Why? Lost in the marketing and technology pages …

Discussion: AdExchanger.com

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Lawrence Journal-World gets out of the CMS business, losing out to freebies like WordPress — The future is uncertain for Ellington, the content management system designed by a news organization for news organizations. Ten people working on the project were laid off this week.