Front page of the day. Britain’s The Independent goes large on a panel’s findings that the war on drugs is failing:

The Department of Corrections. I’d be disappointed too if I was promised a steak dinner but all I got was “beef on a bun”. From today’s Canadian newspaper The Standard-Freeholder:

NY Times appoints woman editor — after 160 years

“For 160 years the New York Times has been setting the standards of newspaper journalism in America, with one significant exception – gender equality. Now the paradoxically nicknamed Gray Lady has finally redressed the balance with the appointment of its first female editor.” — The Guardian

Outgoing NYT editor Bill Keller: the exit interview

“I caught up with Bill Keller, who told me what made him decide to walk away now, why he finds Arianna Huffington ‘damned annoying,’ and why he’s hoping the next three months will be filled with worldwide chaos.” — Forbes

Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism

“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. The prize is awarded annually to a journalist whose work has “penetrated the established version of events and told and unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or ‘official drivel’, as Martha Gellhorn called it.” — Journalism.co.uk

Fairfax restructures advertising teams

“Fairfax Media is making its pitch for the hundreds of millions of advertising dollars spent by marketers each year in cross-platform media deals, after merging the print, display, digital and magazine sales teams of its Metro Media division yesterday.” — The Australian

Boy sells kidney to buy iPad

“The Shanghai Daily is carrying a story today about a local boy who’s now regretting some unnecessarily surgery. The 17-year-old student, referred to only as Zheng, sold one of his kidneys for 20 thousand yuan (~$3085 USD) so he could buy an iPad 2.” — Mediabistro

Essay: the ethics of paying for sources

“Paying for information is, among American journalists, generally regarded as falling in the same moral category as paying for s-x. True reporters get their information cleanly and by the sweat of their brow, not by waving around soiled Andrew Jacksons. As the New York Times’s ethics policy puts it, ‘We do not pay for interviews or unpublished documents: to do so would create an incentive for sources to falsify material….'” — Columbia Journalism Review

A snapshot of photo-sharing market share on Twitter

“Social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a look at the current photo sharing space on Twitter, examining how and where people are sharing their photos.” — TechCrunch