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Media Free to Roam in China During 2008 Olympics (Reuters)
Foreign media will be free to travel around China and enjoy uncensored access to the Internet during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Non-Chinese journalists currently need permission to move around the country, while websites containing material considered sensitive by the Chinese government are frequently blocked.

HP's Dunn a Trained Journalist (Daily Dog)
Ethics, not law, was the problem in the Hewlett-Packard leak scandal. [Board chaiman] Dunn has a BA from the UC Berkeley "J" school. Makes you wonder what she was thinking when she turned a pack of private eyes loose on the HP board, employees and ultimately a number journalists. SFChron: Dunn says directors were informed of probe. Reuters: Counsel resigns.

White House Headhunters Looking for a Few Good Fellows (Forbes)
James Brady: The White House has enlisted long-time magazine editor Myrna Blyth, who's been calling on major magazine editors and looking for publicity about their recruiting campaign.

SFPD Spied on Reporters (SF Weekly)
A.C. Thompson: A classified probe conducted by a secretive branch of the San Francisco Police Department, a cloak-and-dagger investigation, may have transgressed the department's own rules — and definitely torched the careers of a pair of ethical police officers.

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