Mediagazer: How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room (Matthew Weaver/Guardian)

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists — This tweet looks pretty real, doesn't it? — It's not, though. I faked that tweet using a Web service named “Let Me Tweet That For You.” It's pretty simple — you type in a Twitter username and a message …

Discussion: AllThingsD, The Verge and NetNewsCheck Latest

Phillip Smith / MediaShift Idea Lab:

Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up — I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for resources to display the page in question.

Discussion: Poynter and eMedia Vitals

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Changing trains: The Local East Village, NYU's hyperlocal blog, moves from The New York Times to New York magazine — NEW YORK — New York University's hyperlocal East Village blog has found a new home and a new name. After a two-and-a-half-year partnership with The New York Times …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Times

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards — The Internet affords cheap, easy access to priceless information. But local news coverage is a casualty of its rise. — Is the American news media in better shape than ever before?

Discussion: Street Fight

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Filing Says Glenn Beck's Network TheBlaze Is Raising $40M — TheBlaze, a set of online ventures run by conservative pundit Glenn Beck, is raising $40 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — The filing states that the company has raised $1.5 million so far.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski steps down — Julius Genachowski, who has served as FCC Chairman since 2009, is stepping down. The FCC has announced on its website that Genachowski will be leaving his position “in the coming weeks;” an official meeting will be held later this morning.

Discussion: Variety, TechCrunch, Fast Company, New York Times, Politico, Engadget, Los Angeles Times and Electronista

Economist:

Binding the press: A rotten deal — THE regulation of the British press is an area where this newspaper usually treads lightly. It is not just that The Economist has an interest in opposing irksome rules—albeit a less obvious one than the tabloids, many though not all of them owned by Rupert Murdoch …

Discussion: Guardian, lustigletter.blogspot.co.uk, New Statesman, Kirk LaPointe's … and Spectator

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Vevo boss says intelligent, data-centric services could revive music industry — International senior vice-president Nic Jones says music service users want opportunity to be curated by more than algorithms — Intelligent, data-centric services could herald the rebirth of the music industry …

Wall Street Journal:

Web Fan Base Tips Scale To Fallon — Jimmy Fallon's recent two-minute skit “Evolution of Mom Dancing,” featuring the late-night TV comic and Michelle Obama performing a series of funny dance moves, racked up more than 15 million views on YouTube. That is about five times the average nightly audience …

Discussion: @dfsaavedra, Los Angeles Times, Corporate Intelligence and Bloomberg

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

Ex-Gawker EIC A.J. Daulerio to Consult for BuzzMedia — It was just a few months ago that A.J. Daulerio vacated the EIC position at Gawker and was replaced by John Cook. This week comes word that Daulerio will soon be taking on a high-level three-month consulting gig with BuzzMedia.

Jim Romenesko:

Boston Globe editor: 'We're a stable enterprise. We're a cash positive enterprise' — Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory spoke yesterday at the MIT Center for Civic Media. Here's what he said, according to the live blog that “may contain errors”: — The Globe, which is on the market …

Discussion: MIT Center for Civic Media

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Travel Site TripAdvisor Buys Tiny Post To Fill Out Its Mobile And Social Ambitions — TripAdvisor, the travel site built around destination guides and user reviews, today made another acquisition: it has bought Tiny Post, an iOS app that lets users take pictures, write captions over them …

Discussion: PR Newswire, App Advice, Associated Press and The Next Web