A case involving the royal family and one of England's biggest tabloids, News of the World, has resurfaced. In 2005, two newspaper employees were charged with hacking into voicemails, but Scotland Yard didn't pursue the case any further. However, new reports reveal that there may have been a culture of hacking at the paper.

The Pentagon has created new rules governing the military's interaction with the media, following Gen. Stanley McChrystal's loose-lipped appearance in Rolling Stone. Yesterday, for the first time since the controversial new rules were announced, Defense Secretary Robert Gates faced the press. 

Gen. Stanley McChrystal meets with President Obama today, as the fallout from a Rolling Stone article remains front and center in Washington. In his article, journalist Michael Hastings (who was on The Takeaway yesterday) quotes the general and his aides making disparaging remarks about various administration officials, including Vice President Biden and the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.

The winners of the most prestigious honor in newspaper journalism were announced yesterday. The Pulitzer Prize committee gave four awards to The Washington Post and following close behind was The New York Times. Notably, one of the awards granted The New York Times was shared by the nonprofit investigative news organization, ProPublica, which is a new kind of journalistic outfit.

Whether it’s the casualty count in Afghanistan, the national deficit or the size of an earthquake – numbers help us communicate. But are telling the numbers the best way to tell a news story?

Yesterday, we spoke with media experts about the role of news in politics and its impact on the gridlock in Washington, D.C.  We received many comments from listeners who believe strongly that the media are responsible for much of the political divisiveness in the country today.

Noel King here, producing on The Takeaway’s day shift.

"1000" 

On Tuesday afternoon a number of news organizations reported that U.S. forces in Afghanistan had reached the grim milestone of 1,000 troop deaths. That's because the website icasualties.org changed its tally to 1000. The Pentagon called those reports incorrect - and they are. I’d begun digging into this story on Sunday and, with some phone calls, discovered what's contributing to these false reports. It's all laid out below. 

Radio has always been an important part of Haitian society. And since the earthquake, it has played an even more critical role, serving as the primary mode of transmitting information about aid.

The tragedy in Haiti has been captured in powerful photographs that reveal the extent of the human suffering in that country. But are the images too graphic? At what point do photographs become exploitative and blur the the lines of ethical photojournalism?

• Business Takeout: New York Times finance reporter Louise Story explains why Goldman Sachs is paying its 30 top people bonuses entirely in stock, rather than cash.
• Publishing Takeout: Another blow was dealt to the newspaper industry yesterday when the Nielsen company decided to fold Editor & Publisher magazine. Greg Mitchell, editor of the 125-year-old trade magazine, shares his memories of the paper and his expectations for the industry it leaves behind.
• Listener Takeout: We hear from our listeners about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize award in Oslo, yesterday.

• Business Takeout: Louise Story tells us about a controversial new procedure at the Dallas Morning News and several other papers owned by the A.H. Belo Corporation, which asks some journalists to run their stories by the paper's sales department as well as by editors.
  
• Sports Takeout: Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin discusses what's at stake for international soccer teams at the much anticipated World Cup draw, scheduled for later today in Cape Town, South Africa.
• "The Waiting Room" Takeout:  The Takeaway is staying connected to Americans seeking healthcare with "The Waiting Room," a multimedia project and film documentary that collects interviews with patients at Highland Hospital in Oakland California.  Hear Producer/Director Peter Nicks on the genesis of "The Waiting Room."  Here's a recent video from the project:

Watch more from "The Waiting Room" here.

On Wednesday, Google refined a program to help struggling news organizations limit readers' unpaid access to some news content. It's called the "First Click Free" program, and it means news consumers may be asked to register or subscribe once they've clicked on the website of a particular news outlet through Google News more than five times per day. It's all part of the continuing shakeup over whether or not reading news online should continue to be (mostly) free. For a look at what this might mean for those of you who get most of your news online, we talk to Steven Brill, the founder of Journalism Online.

There are unusual things going on in every city – strange people, curious buildings and local lore. In Miami, public radio journalist Alicia Zuckerman is trying to get answers for the people of South Florida as she asks, "What's up with that?" She’s the co-host of “Under the Sun,” a new public radio series, and she takes story suggestions from listeners. Voting ends today on whether the next story will be about a naked carpet guy, a haunted hotel or rising ocean levels.

As more and more of us choose to go online for our news, the question persists: Are news outlets — whether digital, broadcast, or paper-and-ink — financially sustainable in the long-term? Nick Lemann, the Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, thinks they can stay afloat with help from the government and philanthropists. Phil Balboni, of the entirely online news outlet GlobalPost, isn’t entirely sure this type of funding is the best way to go.

Read the report on the future of journalism that Nick Lemann commissioned, "The Reconstruction of American Journalism."