New York Times

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has followed up on her May 13 post about photo standards in T Magazine following editor Deborah Needleman’s Photoshopping comments.

In the May 13 post, Needleman said she thought a … Read more

The Baltimore Sun | The Real Muck

Former Baltimore Sun police reporter Dick Irwin died Wednesday. He was 76 and had complications from diabetes.

Irwin retired in 2010. Peter Hermann, now a reporter at The Washington Post, marked the … Read more

SFGate | Oakland Tribune

Thieves busted into a KGO-TV news van Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. They also hit the car of a security guard hired to protect the crew. “No cameras or expensive gear was taken, just personal items including … Read more

Gregory J. Millman writes about the IRS nabbing his phone records in 1991: “Outside the DOJ, any law-enforcement entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice.”

To this date, I do not know how many of my phone … Read more

Cody Brown | TechCrunch

Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times’ legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit.

After he answered that … Read more

Adam Cole is not an “Arrested Development” superfan: “I have friends who are much more into it than I am,” the NPR reporter said in a phone interview. But Cole took a scientist’s eye to the cult television series, which … Read more

The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on “illegal immigrant” Monday. It’s the latest of several publications to reconsider the term.

The newspaper’s new style will “essentially match” the Associated Press’ style on the term, David Steinberg, copy desk … Read more

AP photographer Sue Ogrocki talks about photographing children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday.

In the 30 minutes that I was outside the destroyed school, I photographed about a dozen children pulled from the rubble.

I focused … Read more

At least 24 people were killed Monday when a massive tornado struck Moore, Okla., and south Oklahoma City. Berry Tramel’s front page story in The Oklahoman compared the tragedy to a tornado that struck Moore on May 3, 1999: … Read more

Journalists were already rattled by the Department of Justice’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records when Ann Marimow’s disturbing scoop in The Washington Post about the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen hit this weekend. … Read more

Los Angeles Times | Committee to Protect Journalists | Texas Observer | Wired

Escalating cartel violence in Mexico has led to bouts of self-censorship among journalists fearing reprisals, but few so prominently as Nuevo Laredo’s El Mañana, which has decided … Read more

At Columbia Business School Sunday, New York Times Co. President and CEO Mark Thompson spoke to new MBAs about “conventional wisdom and all the apparently excellent advice that flows from it.”

Take my industry. The movies are finished. … Read more

• YAHOO WILL BUY TUMBLR “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business,” a Yahoo announcement this morning says. The acquisition cost Yahoo $1.1 billion, “substantially … Read more

The Center for Investigative Reporting

Content from California Watch and The Bay Citizen will be published under the Center for Investigative Reporting brand beginning May 29, CIR’s executive director Robert J. Rosenthal announced Monday.

Initially, the different brands separated our

New York Times’ site “was subjected to denial of service attacks” this week… Read more

First Monday | Smithsonian | floatingsheep

A study of the “geography of Twitter” compares, among many other data sets, what it calls “Twitter versus mainstream news media.” This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan … Read more

All Things D

Steve Kalin is Patch’s new CEO, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Patch employees in an email Friday. Patch will also make several motions that Armstrong writes will “move Patch meaningfully toward profitability.” Among them: layoffs.

The

It’s been a rough week for President Obama, whose administration is facing a trio of controversies. On Thursday, he created one more: A U.S. Marine held an umbrella for the president while he gave a press conference with Turkish … Read more

Stephen Colbert is scheduled to speak Saturday at the University of Virginia. Arianna Huffington will speak at Smith College Sunday.

They’re among the many journalists who’ve spoken or are scheduled to speak at commencement ceremonies this spring, as many … Read more

All Things D | Adweek | GigaOm | TechCrunch

Yahoo is discussing “strategic alliance and investment in or outright buy of” Tumblr, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher reported Thursday evening.

Any such deal “could certainly bring Yahoo a … Read more