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.

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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

CBS Miami

Tomorrow will be the Miami Herald’s first day in its new headquarters.

Final 3 p.m. news meeting at the bayside home of the #MiamiHerald. The newspaper has moved to #Doral.. twitter.com/MiamiHerald/st…

— The Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald)

Gazette.Net | The Frederick News-Post

The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday it would stop publishing the Frederick County, Md., editions of its Gazette newspapers. Post-Newsweek Media CEO Karen Acton said the move “became necessary due to changes in the … Read more

Indiegogo.com

While concerns among some journalists mount concerning interest from Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers over the sale of the Tribune Co., activist group The Other 98% proposes a different kind of community journalism. They’ve begun a campaign on … Read more

Source | Washington Post

NPR news apps developer Jeremy Bowers discusses in Knight-Mozilla OpenNews’ Source the legwork that went into the Washington Post’s election predictor app.

Bowers worked with the Post’s Ezra Klein and graphics editor Emily Chow to … Read more

The White House Wednesday released 100 pages of emails between government stakeholders arguing, what, exactly they should say in talking points about the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a temporary diplomatic office in Benghazi, Libya. That’s a lot of for … Read more

Nieman Journalism Lab | NewsRight

Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators, has gone out of business.

NewsRight’s own news release describes the dissolution a bit … Read more

Chicago Tribune | LA Observed | Orlando Sentinel

“A sale transaction is only one of our possible strategic options, and there are many others,” Tribune Co. CEO Peter Liguori wrote in an email to employees Wednesday, Robert Channick reports.… Read more

The Associated Press held its story about a foiled underwear bombing for five days, Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate report in The Washington Post. But on Monday, May 7, “CIA officials reported that the national security concerns were ‘no … Read more

Deseret News Service, which has focused a good share of its content on faith and family values issues, now is expanding that effort by syndicating the material to other publishers.

The first such deal, announced this morning, is with GateHouse … Read more

Time | USA Today | CNN | The Daily Caller

Angelina Jolie will appear on the cover of Time’s new issue, out Friday, with a story by Alice Park and Jeffrey Kluger about how her revelation that she had a … Read more

Courthouse News Service | Photography Is Not a Crime | Reason

Makia Smith says a Baltimore police officer smashed her phone, then beat her after she filmed him beating up a man.

The Baltimore Police Department issued guidelines last … Read more

The New Yorker | The Washington Post | The New York Times | Wired | Guardian | All Things D

The New Yorker on Tuesday introduced its new, anonymous electronic tip tool Strongbox, coincidentally on the heels of renewed … Read more

Los Angeles Times | The Huffington Post | Guardian

Members of labor unions and activists protested outside the Los Angeles headquarters of Oaktree Capital Management Tuesday to protest a possible sale of Tribune Co.’s newspapers to the billionaires Charles and … Read more

Columbia University announced Wednesday that Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash will chair the Pulitzer Prize board. Tash became a member of the board in 2006. Chairmen serve for one year, while board members serve a maximum of … Read more