With Yahoo’s $1.1 billion purchase of blogging platform Tumblr,
this week’s podcast will focus on the future of the two
companies and how, or if, they’ll survive the transition. Will
Yahoo become the youthful information hub it struggles to be,
and will Tumblr finally become profitable without alienating its
users? Then, in the wake of the Justice Department’s acquisition
of AP phone records, newly revealed court documents show that
the DOJ investigated Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent
James Rosen as a “co-conspirator” in a case against a State
Department adviser accused of leaking classified information.
We’ll follow up on our conversation from last week on the
balance between the First Amendment and the need to ensure
national security. Finally, we’ll chat with our special guest,
Ben Huh of Cheezburger, on why cats dominate the Internet. The
roundtable will be hosted by MediaShift’s Mark Glaser, with
regulars Ana Marie Cox from The Guardian, Mónica Guzmán from the
Seattle Times and GeekWire, and Andr