According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Egyptian authorities are obstructing international news coverage of the country's political crisis by withholding press credentials. In one instance, event the home of a foreign journalist was invaded. A well-known Egyptian blogger also remains unaccounted for after being seized by suspected government agents earlier this week. For more about this, click here.

Using social media to have a say too, the U.S. State Department has begun tweeting in Arabic to make pronouncements about what is going on in Egypt and the broader Middle East. The Twitter account is "USAbilAraby," which means "USA in Arabic." To see this short article in The Guardian, click here.

Wikileaks is in the news again, but this time on the other side of potential legal action. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German national who was once one of Julian Assange's closest collaborators, may be sued for his book documenting the time he spent with the organization, characterizing Assange as "as obsessed by power and money and with a fondness for young women." For The Guardian story, click here.

Will the extra pressure that comes from holding the European Union presidency be enough to make Hungary change its controversial media law, wonders Phil Cain on Journalism.co.uk? For more about this controversy, click here.

Time Inc. has found itself unsuccessful in negotiating terms with Apple over subscriptions for its digitized magazines, and so found another company to work with: Hewlett-Packard. HP will provide subscriptions for magazines on the device maker's new tablet, due to market this summer. Time Inc. will initially sell four magazines via the HP device: Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune and People. For more from MediaMemo, click here.

Not all content is valued on Wall Street, believes Alan Mutter, writing on his Newsosaur blog. Point in case is the Huffington Post - AOL merger and recent deals like Facebook financing and the Demand Media IPO, where investors "put far more value on companies aggregating cheap or free content than on dedicating generous resources to original, high-quality journalism." Newsosaur provides an interesting look at the difference between digital superstars and struggling legacy media companies. For this, click here.

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