“This partnership builds on the strength of Gannett’s growing digital business and powerful local brands,” says Gracia Martore, president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Gannett. “Working with Yahoo! will allow us to offer targeted advertising messages with unmatched local audience reach.” Read more here…

Not all is cushy at Twitter headquarters! Read more here @ Valleywag’s report

He’s the Pete Best of the IT Industry. Read more here

Mr. Hirschhorn’s departure is just the latest blow for the social networking Web site, which the News Corporation bought for a staggering $580 million five years ago.

MySpace has struggled to retain audience and relevance in the shadow of the much more popular Facebook. It averaged about 111 million visitors worldwide in April, while Facebook averaged 519 million, according to ComScore….TechCrunch reported on this last week.

“Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it—for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to. So some of the smartest minds at the company are thinking about this, and working with publishers, and peering ahead to see what the future of journalism looks like. Guess what? It’s bright.”

The only problem is, is that “Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content”, have nothing to do with journalism whatsoever, they’re specific to the newspaper industry only. I don’t know about you, but 75-90% of the people I know find their news online from a large variety of sources: news agencies, social Media, news-oriented websites, radio, blogs, etc. The Newspaper industry while bleeding, is still a profit-heavy business. With this being said, the article DOES have a lot of interesting information on Google’s effect on the Newspaper industry

We already knew that Jobs was going to announce: a new iPhone. And, thanks to Gizmodo’s reporting on a swiped iPhone prototype, we already had a good idea about what’s going to be in this model. So, why are there currently over 1,100 news stores and 696,000 (!) blog postings according to Google about Apple’s WWDC announcement? Read more at PC World

SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. A family member says he’s being held in custody in Kuwait, and has not been formally charged.

Read more at this article courtesy of Wired.com

While Steve Jobs is at home writing 1,500 word diatribes about how he thinks Flash isn’t worthy of their devices, the NYTimes piece does a great job of explaining how the golden chariot of the press may be soon leaving Apple in the dust, and they won’t look away so fast when the anti-trust regulators come knocking again….

So was the item stolen?! Gizmodo said the deputies, who had a search warrant when they arrived at Chen’s home Friday night, “seized two dozen pieces of electronic equipment, including computers, hard drives and digital cameras.”

This case raises several questions. Do journalism protection laws apply to a website contributor who’s parent company might have knowingly (or un-knowingly) purchased “stolen property”? If this case falls under the paradigm of “investigative news” in court, then the site has every right to protect their sources. Until all of the facts are known, the journalism community, and the tech community will have their eyes on this case very closely….Read more about it here