Mediagazer: Introducing Fact Tank (Alan Murray/Pew Research Center)

3:22 AM ET, May 26, 2013

Top News:

Sweeping Leak Inquiries Reveal How Wide a Net U.S. Has Cast — WASHINGTON — Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @mlcalderone, Mother Jones, Mediaite, Dallas Morning News and @mlcalderone

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Press Sees Chilling Effect in Justice Dept. Inquiries — President Obama's conciliatory gesture toward the press this week — a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists — struck some national security reporters as closing the door after the sources have already bolted.

Discussion: @coreyhutchins, Boing Boing and CNN

Josh Stearns / Free Press:
Come Clean: Groups Demand Transparency from Attorney General Eric Holder

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Free Press and New York Times

Alex Pareene / Salon:
Eric Holder versus journalism

Discussion: News Desk, Jack Shafer, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, The Hill, New York Magazine, Wired, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, The Week, Kirk LaPointe's … and Washington Post

Globe and Mail:

Globe investigation: The Ford family's history with drug dealing — This investigative report reveals that: — Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping. — In the 1980s, anyone wanting to buy hashish had to know where to go.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Boing Boing, Business Insider and Gawker

Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Gawker's bid to give $200,000 to Canadian drug dealers hits slight snag

Discussion: FP Passport, Gawker and Mediaite

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yet Another Hulu Bidder! Yahoo Is In, Too. — Add one more name to the Hulu bidding derby: Yahoo, which just announced plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion, has made an offer on the video website as well. — The Web giant submitted a bid for the video site this morning, according to a person familiar with process.

Bloomberg:
KKR, Silver Lake Said to Join Bidding for Hulu Online Video Site

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, The Next Web and Mashable

Kevin Davis / NetNewsCheck Latest:

INN Starts Backing Nonprofit News Startups — After a 19-month wait to secure its own 501(c)3 status, the Investigative News Network has started to sponsor nonprofit news projects. “Fiscal sponsorship allows these early-stage nonprofits to accept donations from philanthropists and foundations …

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

Syrian Electronic Army compromises Sky News Android app — EXCLUSIVE: A screen capture provided to The Desk by a hacker with the Syrian Electronic Army purports to show the developer dashboard for several BSkyB Android applications. — The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility …

Discussion: National Updates, The Verge, The Next Web and Reuters

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

The Whole Bluth And Nothing But The Bluth: An ‘Arrested Development’ FAQ — “I've made a huge mistake.” “There's always money in the banana stand.” “Motherboy.” If you don't understand why the people around you have lately taken to uttering these phrases and then simpering …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Business Insider

Adam Rifkin / AllThingsD:

Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo — The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can be specific guidelines around the valuation of interest graphs …

Kim Zetter / Wired:

WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle — As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have dwindled to a trickle.

Discussion: Gawker and thenation.com/blogs/163263

Alan Murray / Pew Research Center:

Introducing Fact Tank — Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers. — Fact Tank will build on the Pew Research Center's unique brand of data journalism. For years, our teams of writers and social scientists …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Government should reopen talks on press regulation, says Alan Rusbridger — Guardian editor-in-chief also raises concerns over use of royal charter, saying it is ‘a mechanism controlled by ministers’ — The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has urged the culture secretary …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

News Corp. to take up to $1.4-billion write-down in publishing — News Corp. disclosed that it would take as much as a $1.4-billion write-down in publishing during the current fiscal quarter. Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of the corporation, is pictured here in 2011. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / May 24, 2013)