With more out-of-work journalists, more writers than ever are turning to freelancing. No matter how fierce the competition, you shouldn't be working for free, says longtime reporter Bill Snyder, vice president of the Pacific Media Workers Guild Freelance Unit. "If you’re not getting paid, you’re not really engaging in a profession,” said Snyder, who came together with other reporters to talk about the realities of working in the journalism industry today, as part of San Francisco's month-long Laborfest conference. One solution, panelists said: Organize.

Staffing the Olympics used to be a no-brainer for major newspapers, Sherman writes. "The Games are a major worldwide event and you air-mail as many reporters as possible. Obviously, times, priorities, and most importantly, economics have changed. It’s no longer automatic to send an army of staffers to cover an Olympics."

A fake Bill Keller column, a WikiLeaks hoax that took months of planning, fooled journalists, Poynter reports. "At the same time, the hoax had a shelf life of less than 24 hours," Craig Silverman writes. "The hoax op-ed began circulating Saturday night and on Sunday morning Keller knocked it down on Twitter. That was enough time to make a dent in the media consciousness, but a relatively small impact given what seems to be a decent amount of time spent planning the hoax. An encouraging dynamic."

The editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune has written to its editor, Gerould Kern, demanding answers about the company’s continued relationship with under-fire content provider Journatic. The letter signed by 88 Tribune journalists — including Pulitzer prize-winning columnists Mary Schmich and Blair Kamin and several Metro desk editors — cites “deep frustration and concern in the newsroom over the Tribune’s continued relationship with Journatic, one that threatens to jeopardize our credibility.”