Mediagazer: Roger Ailes biographer encounters third-rate online taunting (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

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

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 …

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: NetNewsCheck Latest, eMedia Vitals, The Wall Blog, Mashable! and GeekWire

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and The Media Business

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why The New York Times eschews formal social media guidelines — Phil Corbett, The New York Times associate managing editor for standards, tells me in an interview why the paper chooses to have only informal social media guidelines: … Earlier: John Paton's three “rules” for journalists using social media (Digital First) |

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and The Educated Reporter

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.

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: Mashable! and The Wrap

Amy Sullivan / The New Republic:

Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels — Nothing gets journalists chattering like a debate about themselves, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that my post yesterday about the fixation many news outlets have with being first attracted some notice.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog

Discussion: Poynter, The New Yorker Blog, Erik Wemple and The Daily Dish

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: @peterlauria3

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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 and ResourceShelf

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!

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy — It's not often moguls admit they made a mistake. — But lately some of the highest-paid executives at the world's largest media companies have talked a lot about the lessons they learned from a failed industrywide attempt to pass antipiracy legislation six months ago.

Discussion: Daily Dot, Forbes Real Time and Media Decoder

Discussion: Capital New York

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Confidence in TV news at all-time low — Americans' confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup. — Twenty-one percent of the 1,004 adults polled said they had “a great deal” or “a lot” of confidence in television news media …

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, Gallup, Mediaite, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @davidfolkenflik and Media, disrupted

Thomas Grove / Reuters:

Russian Wikipedia closes site to protest Internet law — (Reuters) - The Russian version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia closed its site on Tuesday in a one-day protest against what it said were plans by President Vladimir Putin to create his own version of the “Great Chinese Firewall” to block dissent on the Internet.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Jakomi Mathews / THE MUSiC VOiD:

Are There Too Many Music Streaming Services? — Earlier today Pandora announced their move into the Australian music market and TMV understands Deezer is not far behind. In this market alone that would mean Rdio, MOG, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, five global music streaming services …

Brian Clark Howard / News Watch:

Dangerous Journalism: Where Is it Most Risky to Report? — An unexploded mortar shell sits in the desert in Israel near the border with Gaza and Egypt. Journalists covering conflict zones aren't the only ones at risk. Photo: Brian Clark Howard — By Drew Hendricks

YCharts / Forbes:

Warren Buffett Likes Newspaper Stocks — Should You? — That old coot in Omaha is buying newspapers, after swearing a few years back he wouldn't. For Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) holders, this is at worst a small diversion, given the amounts involved, and at best a reminder …