The plot behind KellerCancerGate thickens: The note on Emma Keller's since-deleted hit piece on a cancer-fighting tweeter now states, "This post has been removed pending investigation." A spokesman for the Guardian tells Gawker that "aspects of the investigation are on-going."

Emma Keller's controversial column on the tweets of cancer survivor Lisa Adams "has been deleted with the agreement of the subject because it is inconsistent with the Guardian editorial code," the Guardian reports. Apparently they frown upon publishing DMs without permission.

The Boston Globe has poached America's preeminent Vatican correspondent, John Allen, from the National Catholic Reporter, because of the "resurgence of global interest in the Catholic Church." Everyone loves to read about Pope Francis!

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, formerly known as Nicholas D. Kristof, who took the time to write a special blog post about his decision to stop publishing his middle initial ("D."), now mourns the frivolity of people reading the item that he decided to write.

Glenn Greenwald, who famously worked with Edward Snowden this year to publicize the NSA's massive surveillance program, today rejected the idea that his role in the Snowden affair has gone from journalist to cheerleader, calling that criticism "ludicrous" and questioning his MSNBC interviewer's own partisanship.

It takes an extraordinarily brave and clear-eyed writer to compose his own epitaph. Four years ago—four years before his death at age 59—Peter W. Kaplan did. He was speaking to the media reporter for the New York Observer, his media reporter, after he had just told his staff there that he would not be their editor anymore. "I had a little newspaper in New York City!" Peter Kaplan said. "You can't beat that."

According to the Foreign Press Association, the Israeli military has intentionally targeted journalists at least ten times over the past two years. The most recent incident occurred on Friday, when the Israeli army allegedly fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at clearly-identified photojournalists covering a skirmish between the Israeli military and Palestinian protestors.

With the legalization of the sale of marijuana coming into effect in Colorado on January 1st, everyone in the Centennial State has been getting ready for the bloodshot eyes of the nation to be on them. In that spirit, the Denver Post has hired a marijuana editor, and their introductory interview with him is pretty amazing.

Peter Kaplan, the editor of the New York Observer for fifteen years, whose talent and affability helped the publication offer a smart, insider's view of New York City's elite, died of cancer on Friday at the age of 59.

I achieved the near-impossible Monday morning, October 7, at approximately 9:30 am. I got fired from BuzzFeed.

At least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or disappeared in Syria since the civil war began in 2011. The actual numbers are in slight dispute due to a disagreement over the definition of a "journalist," but the AP has compiled a list of some of the missing.

You can't really be a legitimate news organization if you're going to kill stories based on the political leanings of your owner. RT can't report honestly on the Kremlin, while Al-Jazeera can't freely critique the Qatari government. And now add Bloomberg News to the list of news outlets that kill stories to please institutions, in this case the Chinese government.

Gay Talese annotates his 1966 masterwork profile, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." Turns out, Ol' Blue Eyes, who famously refused to sit for the Esquire story, may have secretly liked the piece.

ThinkProgress has a roundup of how foreign media is writing about the shutdown. France: "Jefferson, wake up, they’ve gone crazy!" Germany: "[Republicans] are not only taking their own party to the brink, but the whole country." Russia: "The 'Elephants' Are Robbing the U.S. Government."

As part of its Internship Investigations project, the journalism non-profit ProPublica dug into the mandatory Journalism Residency program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The gobsmacking results are in:

Thursday night, a sex offender stepped in front of a microphone and tried to explain himself to his new community of Belmont, Massachusetts. ""My name is Carl Peterson. 'I'm the level 3 sex offender all of you have been talking about," the 48-year-old told his neighbors in the high school auditorium.

Combination high-society newsletter and prestigious muckraker The New York Times turned 162 years old today, having published its first edition on September 18, 1851. A few highlights, via the endlessly addictive Times Machine:

University of Alabama paper The Crimson White does a deep dive into the school's problem of white sororities banning black members. It turns out many of the sorority girls want to desegregate their chapters, but alumnae override them or threaten to cut financial support if a black recruit is admitted.

Veteran British broadcaster David Frost, who famously interviewed President Richard Nixon after his resignation, has died at the age of 74. He is the only journalist to have interviewed all British prime ministers between 1964 and 2007, and all U.S. presidents between 1969 and 2008.

Happy Labor Day!