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Gawker Editor Coen Leaving to Become VF Deputy Online Editor (Gawker)
"These are my last two weeks at Gawker," writes Jessica Coen, "While it's actually quite hard to say goodbye to this job, I can't pass up the opportunity to do all sorts of inappropriate things to the Condé Nast salad bar when no one's looking." FishbowlNY: Coen's departure comes less than three months after her longtime co-editor, Jesse Oxfeld, was let go in a companywide shakeup and replaced by a co-editor, Alex Balk, and managing editor Chris Mohney.

Investigator Who Worked for H-P Tailed WSJ Reporter in Unrelated Probe (WSJ)
H-P's outside investigator said he "had conducted visual — not electronic — surveillance of the reporter at issue while on vacation and had skip tracers call the hotel the reporter had been staying at to obtain his hotel call records via pretexting, which revealed a call to a senior executive with the company."

'Fearless' Huffington a Liberal's Best Hope? (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: The Huffington Post has emerged when the left wing doesn't seem to have a front-and-center media presence with the resources (Air America, we never knew ye!), chutzpah and sheer ambition to put the noisy, organized and affluent right wing back on its heels, for a change.

Copyright Jungle: New Issues, New Restrictions, New Threats (CJR)
Siva Vaidahyanthan: Reporters often fail to see the big picture in copyright stories: that what is at stake is the long-term health of our culture. If the copyright system fails, huge industries could crumble. If it gets too strong, it could strangle future creativity and research.

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