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'Citizen Journalists' Evade Myanmar's News Blackout (WSJ)
In the age of YouTube, cellphone cameras, and text messaging, technology is playing a critical role in helping news organizations and international groups follow Myanmar's biggest protests in nearly two decades. Citizen witnesses are beaming out images of bloodied monks and street fires, subverting the Myanmar government's effort to control media coverage and present a sanitized version of the uprising.

2 Clintons, Two Stories — But Just One To See Print (WaPo)
GQ killed a 7,000-word article about infighting among aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, a move that came after the magazine began work on a cover story on the philanthropic efforts of Bill Clinton. GQ Editor Jim Nelson insisted that the two events were not directly linked. "The story didn't end up fully satisfying. ... I guarantee and promise you, if I'd have had a great Hillary piece, I would have run it."

Newspapers Now Stuffed Full Of Blogs, But No Clue Where To Put Them (Gawker)
Choire Sicha: Nearly all newspaper Web sites mistakenly segregate their blogs off with the other blogs. They're organizing by form, not by content. Readers just don't come to a newspaper's Web site looking for a messy passel of blogs. They come looking for sports, or fashion, no matter what "form" it's in. Old newspaper editors may think blogs are some crazy different variety of publication; readers don't.

Nielsen Reconsidering Ratings Processing Change (B&C)
Nielsen is re-examining a processing change introduced just days ago that lets networks report multiple airings of the same show (if it runs with identical commercial content) as one rating. NBC's use (or abuse) of the processing change generated a firestorm of criticism from rival networks and ad buyers.

Independent Cues Up Clooney as Guest Editor (Guardian)
Oscar-winning film star George Clooney is being lined up to guest edit the Independent newspaper. Negotiations are under way for Clooney to follow in the footsteps of rock star Bono and fashion designer Giorgio Armani and guest edit an edition of the paper for the Africa charity Product Red.

Should the Government Help the Press? (CJR)
Bree Nordenson: Journalism is a rare business in that its product has a public-service function, but unlike other public-service activities, like public education or scientific research, it is not protected from market forces by government support. If market forces have become unfavorable, how do we support this essential institution of democracy? And why do journalists categorically reject the idea that government could help?

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