Mediagazer: Operation Elveden: two journalists arrested on suspicion of conspiracy (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

R.I.P. Newscore: News Corp.'s Weird News Wire Goes Dark, Sheds Staff — As News Corp. shores up its print and television properties leading up to the company's highly publicized split, its scrappy and beloved internal newswire Newscore has quietly gone dark, with at least 20 positions eliminated …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Roger Ailes biographer encounters third-rate online taunting — Journalist Gabriel Sherman has a bio page at gabrielsherman.com. It notes that he's written quite a bit over the years, for the New York Observer, New York magazine, the New Republic, et alii. Other fun facts: … What a jerk!

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: two journalists arrested on suspicion of conspiracy — Sunday Mirror reporter one of two journalists arrested, with Daily Star Sunday deputy news editor understood to be the other — Two journalists, including one from the Sunday Mirror, were arrested this morning …

Discussion: Media Decoder and @joshhalliday

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Could Mirror Elveden arrest prompt domino effect? — Fleet Street insiders fear a ‘domino effect’ of more arrests as the Met Police Operation Elveden inquiry into corruption spread beyond News International to Trinity Mirror. — Up until last week all 18 journalists arrested by Elveden …

John Paton / Digital First:

In Defense of the Times-Picayune — Stop me if you've heard this one. — An old and distinguished business in New Orleans has seen more than half of its revenue disappear in five years and has decided to change how it conducts business - before it goes out of business.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, The Buttry Diary, @stevebuttry and @jeffjarvis

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NBC and Facebook to Announce Olympics Partnership — Users of Facebook, later this summer, will be reminded about NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in London. And viewers of NBC's coverage, at the same time, will be nudged to talk about the Games on Facebook.

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, Daily Dot, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, PopWatch, the Econsultancy blog, Mashable! and The Wrap

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Carla Robbins out at NY Times editorial page — New York Times deputy editorial page editor Carla Anne Robbins stepped down, POLITICO has learned. — In an email to staff on Monday, editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal said “Robbins has decided to step down as Deputy Editorial Page Editor …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @dylanbyers

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Can a publisher use crowdfunding to replace ads? — We've already seen Kickstarter, the popular crowdfunding platform, used to finance some fairly interesting media experiments, including books from authors like Seth Godin, record albums by artists like Amanda Palmer and even an entire magazine in the case of Matter.

Discussion: The Verge, The Wall Blog, mediabistro.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, eMedia Vitals, Mashable!, GeekWire and Penny Arcade

Discussion: The Media Business and eMedia Vitals

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

The New York Times Gets a ‘Rare Glimpse’ Quite Often — Diligent readers of the New York Times are, on one hand, de facto public editors, tracking large-scale shifts in the hallowed pages and speaking up — in their own best interest — to keep the paper honest.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Educated Reporter

Roger Cheng / CNET:

MTV, Comedy Central, other Viacom channels go dark for DirecTV — It's unclear how long the blackout — which hits more than 20 million customers — might last after DirecTV and Viacom fail to come to terms on distribution fees. DirecTV and Viacom failed to reach a new deal on programming fees …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Media Decoder, Guardian, Blog.Viacom and @peterlauria3

Jim Romenesko:

The world has put veteran journalists out to pasture — A job-seeking veteran reporter who was laid off from a Chicago newspaper a few years ago forwarded a Sun-Times Media help-wanted ad to Chicago Reader media critic Michael Miner and asked, “Is it legal?” (His answer: “I don't know.")

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Why it's so hard for SCOTUSblog to get Supreme Court press credentials — SCOTUSblog has gotten widespread attention in recent weeks for its accurate and detailed coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act and the mistakes CNN and Fox News made while covering it.

Discussion: Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The New Yorker Blog and Erik Wemple

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck — One year ago tomorrow, CEO Reed Hastings took the first of a series of missteps that angered customers and nearly derailed his company. Current and former employees disclose what went wrong. — Follow @sandoCNET

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Broadcasters file emergency motion to block political ad rule — The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) asked a federal court on Tuesday to block the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) political ad rule before it goes into effect on Aug. 2. — The group, which first filed suit in May …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Hey DOJ, where are the public comments on the ebook pricing case? — The Department of Justice was supposed to publish all of the letters it has received about the ebook pricing settlement on its website by June 25. Bob Kohn, an attorney and CEO of Royalty Share who previously wrote …

Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:

Social media grows in importance for finding the news — A new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism provides further evidence of how social media is shaping news consumption. — The survey of online news consumers across five countries - UK, US, Germany …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:

Judge signals he'll OK Tribune Co. reorganization plan … U.S. Bankrutpcy Judge Kevin Carey signaled that he will confirm a plan to end Tribune Co.'s epic bankruptcy case in an opinion he plans to release this week. — At a status hearing in the case held in Delaware Wednesday morning …