Injured journalists Edith Bouvier and Paul Conroy got out of Syria, Reuters is reporting. Conroy’s father confirms the news of his son’s release. However, the AP says Bouvier is still in Syria. Last week the two journalists, who were wounded in the rocket attack that killed Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, appealed for help. Colvin was killed trying to fetch her shoes after the attack started. Her mother wants to bring her body home. The Committee to Protect Journalists says Anas al-Tarsha, a Syrian videographer, was killed Friday. || Related: Stephen Farrell writes a long and excellent essay on foreign correspondency in the “Post-Embed Era.”
• Myanmar is easing press restrictions. One editor tells the AP that the government doinks only 10 percent of his copy per week.
• Time to launch another paper? Sue Akers, who is in charge of the criminal investigation of the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, told the Leveson inquiry on Monday that the Sun “had illegally paid the unidentified officials hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for news tips and ‘salacious gossip.’ She said the payments had been authorized ‘at a very senior level within the newspaper.’” Rupert Murdoch said in a statement such folkways “no longer exist at The Sun.” Akers’ testimony and other police revelations “seemed designed to rebut” pushback from Murdoch employees over the past weeks. || Related: More noise, none of it sourced to the government, about how this might trigger a U.S. investigation.
• “Kevin Nealon is a whore for scented candles”: Hamilton Nolan goes to Beverly Hills, and finds the culture of free stuff for celebrities somewhat wanting. “Nice article. Definatley slander. Definatley worth contacting an attorney for,” Amy Boatwright, who ran one of the gifting suites Nolan visited, writes in reply.
• Erick Schonfeld will leave TechCrunch. Eric Eldon will replace him.
• Bruce Springsteen debuts new song on Wall Street Journal blog.
• Congratulations to Seattle Weekly editor Mike Seely, who has received “what appears to be the first thoroughbred writing award for an alt-weekly writer,” Jason Zaragoza of AAN writes.
