Mediagazer: Dish Increases Its Bid for Clearwire (Sharon Terlep/Wall Street Journal)

12:55 AM ET, May 30, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

NYT Will Not Attend Holder Meeting With Media — NEW YORK — The New York Times and Associated Press said Wednesday that they will not attend a meeting this week between Attorney General Eric Holder and the Washington bureau chiefs of several media outlets to discuss guidelines for journalists in leak investigations.

Discussion: Politico, @woodhouseb, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Guardian and Mother Jones

New York Times:

Holder Faces a New Round of Criticism — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a lightning rod of Republican attacks during President Obama's first term, is now contending with a new round of criticism over the Justice Department's campaign against leaks to the news media.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, Mediaite and The Daily Beast

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

‘Thousands And Thousands’ Of Calls Seized By DOJ — NEW YORK — Associated Press president and chief executive Gary Pruitt told staff at a Wednesday town hall meeting that the phone records obtained by the government included “thousands and thousands” of calls in and out of the news organization, according to a staffer who attended.

Discussion: Mediaite

BuzzFeed:

The Social Media Editor is Dead — By April 19, the manhunt for two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon had been ongoing for four days, and the Twitterati were growing weary. — Brian Ries, of The Daily Beast, confessed he was “so tired.” Huffington Post's Craig Kanalley saw …

Discussion: Zombie Journalism, @fieldproducer, Nieman Reports, @lheron, @fieldproducer, @boyreporter, @ivanlajara, @lheron, The Atlantic Wire, Fast Co.Labs and paidContent

Jim Romenesko:

Liz Heron is named Wall Street Journal emerging media editor — Liz Heron, who left the New York Times last year to lead the Wall Street Journal's social media team, has been promoted to emerging media editor for the Journal and Dow Jones. — “In this newly created role …

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Month of Breaking News Lifts CNN and Fox, but Sinks MSNBC — A second straight month of big breaking events proved one thing: MSNBC is a television news channel that does not gain any advantage when news is being made. — CNN, meanwhile, is never stronger than when it can flex its news muscles.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

CNBC viewers hit lowest point since April 2005 — May was CNBC's lowest-rated month in total viewers since April 2005, reports Jeff Reeves of InvestorPlace.com. — Reeves writes, “Meanwhile, in case you're wondering, the S&P 500 is up 37% since 2005 and more than 16% year-to-date.

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Newsweek confirms it is eyeing sale — Newsweek CEO Baba Shetty and editor-in-chief Tina Brown have just sent the following memo to staff, confirming earlier reports that parent-company IAC is exploring a sale of the now online-only magazine: … Developing.

Discussion: Gawker, New York Times, Mashable, The Huffington Post and Variety

Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal:

Dish Increases Its Bid for Clearwire — Dish Network Corp. has increased its bid for mobile-broadband operator Clearwire Corp., topping the offer Sprint Nextel Corp. raised last week. — Late Wednesday, Dish offered to acquire Clearwire for $4.40 a share in cash, a 29% premium over Sprint's offer of $3.40 a share.

Discussion: AllThingsD, The Verge, CNET and GeekWire

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Twitter's Dick Costolo: We're a complement to news orgs, not a replacement — Also at D11, Twitter's Dick Costolo talked about the state of the company and platform. That included a bit about the news business. This is from All Things D's Mike Isaac's live paraphrasing of Costolo's on-stage conversation with Kara Swisher:

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, @pakman and AllThingsD

RT:

Larry King joins RT with brand new politics show — Award-winning interviewer Larry King will host a mold-breaking political talk show on RT from next month, speaking to both leading establishment figures, and those who are not afraid to go against the grain.

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

Soo Meta, the Storify for online video storytelling, launches to the public — Soo Meta redefines video storytelling by turning Storify-like content curation into great-looking video slideshows. The platform even allows producers to add polls and quizzes to their videos.

Discussion: The Next Web

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Barry Diller: The internet is eating the cable company — The wall that broadcasters and cable companies have built around their services is not long for this world, according to Barry Diller, chairman of IAC. It's not clear who will tear it down, and it's not clear when it will actually happen …

Discussion: AdAge and AllThingsD

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Honolulu Civil Beat and Huffington Post join forces for new Hawaii site — Cross Pierre Omidyar's serious-minded Honolulu Civil Beat with Arianna Huffington's traffic-driving wizardry, and what do you get? We'll soon see this fall with the launch of HuffPost Hawaii, a joint venture the two groups announced today.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Civil Beat

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Thomson Reuters hires Economist Group chief to head news agency arm — Andrew Rashbass to leave publisher after 15 years, having led digital transformation from print to digital business — Andrew Rashbass, the chief executive of the Economist Group, is to join Thomson Reuters …

Discussion: Ad Week, New York Times, PR Newswire and Globe and Mail