World Briefing: Cuba: Independent News Site Is Hacked on First Day

Yoani Sánchez, the blogger who began the site, accused the government of sending readers in Cuba instead to a page dedicated to scathing criticism of her.



Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’

Taking another step to restrict Russia’s Internet, President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices

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No Regrets for the Founder of Tumblr After Yahoo Sale

While conceding he was “terrified” going into the deal, David Karp says he is happy with the autonomy the microblogging service has under its new owner.



World Briefing: Ethiopia: 9 Media Workers Arrested

Nine bloggers and journalists were arrested in Addis Ababa last week just days before Secretary of State John Kerry’s scheduled visit to Ethiopia on Tuesday.

Russia Blocks Web Content Amid Tension Over Ukraine

Russia’s general prosecutor ordered three websites and a blog closed, saying they encouraged “illegal activities and participation in public events held in violation of the established order.”

    



Bits Blog: With Medium, Evan Williams Is Tackling the Future of Writing Online

Medium, which will introduce a mobile app next week, is an effort by a founder of Twitter and Blogger to strike a balance between the old world, where professional editors were gatekeepers, and the new one, where anyone can post anything online.

    



DealBook: Five Years Later, an Over-the-Top Wall Street Blog Returns

Leveraged Sell-Out, a blog that parodied the musings of young Wall Street bankers, is back with new postings, five years after the financial crisis.

    



Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly

Brian Krebs’s widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions off spam, malware and frauds.

    



Skin Deep: Beauty Bloggers Parlay Social-Media Success into Entrepreneurship

A new generation of beauty bloggers is managing to parlay social-media success into entrepreneurship.

    

Chinese Ask Kerry to Help Tear Down a Firewall

Meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, a group of Chinese bloggers appealed to the United States to take up the cause of Internet freedom.

    



Guardian Deletes Column About a Cancer Patient

The writer, Emma Gilbey Keller, had focused on the Twitter account and blog of Lisa Bonchek Adams, a mother of three who is being treated for stage four breast cancer.

    



Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions

Roger Shuler’s accusatory posts have earned him many enemies. But even many of them are shocked by what has happened to him.

    



In Cuba’s Press, Streets and Living Rooms, Glimmers of Openness to Criticism

In recent years, Cubans close to the communist government have begun talking more openly about the economy, the political leadership and the restrictions they resent.

    



Media Decoder: Vox Media Buying Curbed.com Network of Sites

Vox Media recently raised $34 million in new investment capital, helping give it the money to buy the Curbed, Eater and Racked sites.

    



Nikki Finke Leaves Deadline Hollywood

The influential blogger announced she was parting ways with Jay Penske, who bought the site Deadline.com from her in 2009.

    



Brand Suffers Most From Spat Between Owner and Hollywood Blogger

Nikki Finke, the blogger who squeezed Hollywood with her rabid trade reporting for Deadline.com, is in a standoff with Jay Penske, the media entrepreneur who bought her Web site in 2009.

    



Travel Blogging Today: It’s Complicated

In an increasingly competitive field, bloggers need to do more than attract readers. They may also need to find sponsors.

    

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff

The statistician who writes the FiveThirtyEight blog for The New York Times is said to be moving that franchise to ESPN.

    

The Media Equation: Despite Report of Her Firing, Nikki Finke Is Still Standing

Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood, feared in the industry for having the best gossip, was said by a longtime competitor to have been fired — a blog report that turned out to be false.

    

Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak

Glenn Greenwald, a blogger who opposes government surveillance and has supported whistle-blowers, has published a top-secret order on the monitoring of phone logs.