Mediagazer: The nepotistic linker — Mathew Ingram, GigaOM's media blogger … (Nicholas Carr/Rough Type)

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spin Magazine Is Sold to Buzzmedia, With Plans to Expand Online Reach — Spin Media, the company behind the alternative-music magazine Spin, has been sold to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, in a deal that could expand Spin's reach online but also calls into question its future as a print publication.

Discussion: Forbes Real Time and eMedia Vitals

Amy Sullivan / The New Republic:

Who Reported It First? Who Cares. — Can we talk about the nonsense of caring about which news outlet first reports a big piece of news? I'm not talking about a genuine scoop—a report that wouldn't have otherwise come to light—but about news that we're all eventually going to find out anyway.

Discussion: Neatorama, @bobbymacreports, @antderosa, Adweek, Politico, Innovation in College Media and kottke.org

Discussion: The Billfold and TVNewser

Julie Moos / Poynter:

The Anniston Star to eliminate Monday print edition — Another Alabama newspaper has decided to reduce its days in print. This time, it is a smaller daily that has been praised for its commitment to community journalism. Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, probably in October …

Discussion: Anniston Star and NetNewsCheck Latest

Dylan Byers / Politico:

David Callaway named EIC of USA Today

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:

Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby — I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction.

Discussion: Street Fight, The Huffington Post, The Corsair, Guardian and Forbes Real Time

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad — Digital magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is finally available for the iPad, three months after it launched for Android . With the app, users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue, the New Yorker and Real Simple for a flat monthly fee.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Engadget, eMedia Vitals, ZDNet, The Verge and TechCrunch

John Robinson / Media, disrupted:

In New Orleans, profit trumps readers — I appreciate the efforts of readers of the Times-Picayune to keep the New Orleans newspaper published seven days a week. Unfortunately, they will be unsuccessful. — Here is a simple, boiled down reason: Readers value the public service the newspaper produces.

Discussion: @annatarkov and DashThirtyDash

Peter C. Beller / Ebyline Blog:

Building the Great Newspaper Paywall — The beleaguered newspaper industry has finally settled on a digital revenue strategy—the metered paywall—and now everyone's pitching in to get it built. Paywalls have their critics, their boosters, more critics and then the critics-who-also-want-to-be- boosters.

Discussion: TheMediaBriefing and Poynter

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

New York Magazine to Expand The Cut Blog — It used to be that New York magazine's cheeky blog items expounding on fashion and politicians were accessories to the main attraction — the articles in the flagship magazine. But next month, New York is shifting more attention online.

Discussion: New York Magazine, FishbowlNY and Capital New York

Jim Romenesko:

Salt Lake Tribune managing editor Michael Anastasi named LANG executive editor — Michael Anastasi leaves the Salt Lake Tribune, where he's been managing editor since 2004, to become executive editor of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which has nine daily newspapers and associated digital products, websites and weekly papers.

Jesselyn Radack / Daily Kos:

DOJ Lawyer's Hypersensitivity to “Only Approved Leaks” Culture Results in Threat to Free Press — Department of Justice Civil Rights Division senior trial attorney Rachel Hranitzky told a local Louisiana reporter that he could not quote statements she made at a public hearing regarding the the New Iberia Fire Department.

Nicholas Carr / Rough Type:

The nepotistic linker — Mathew Ingram, GigaOM's media blogger, gave one of his semiyearly lectures on the sanctity of the hyperlink yesterday. Linking is “a core value of the web.” Links are “the currency of the collaborative web.” Links are “one of the crucial underpinnings of the internet and the web.”

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

WSJ intern fired for making up quotes denies allegation to beauty pageant — Liane Membis, the Wall Street Journal intern fired last month for making up quotes in stories, has denied the allegation to a representation of the Miss Black America pageant, reports the New York Amsterdam News.