Media reporter Christian Vachon reconstructs how male escort Mike Jones pulled the rug out from under the Denver alt-weekly and an NBC affiliate. Before giving his seismic scoop to a local radio station, Jones talked to both Westword Editor Patricia Calhoun and Paula Woodward, an investigative reporter with KUSA-TV, but balked at going public. Vachon calls the episode "a cautionary [tale] for every journalist who has ever wondered when she has enough to go with a story."

Vice detectives arrested nearly 100 men in a prostitution sting using escort-service ads in The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly and craigslist as bait, according to the Seattle Times. About three quarters of the men lured to a downtown hotel responded to craigslist ads. Founder Craig Newmark told the Times that he has heard "prostitution is a significant problem," on the Web site, but he added that "we would prefer that [police] go after violent criminals or crooked congressmen."

Those who knew him best are trying to extract some good from the death of independent journalist Brad Will in Mexico last month. Friends and family have established a foundation in Will's name, and petitions for freedom of the press and social justice are making the rounds. His cousin Susan Mitchell, a staffer at The Athens NEWS and wife of the paper's owner, calls Will "the epitome of an alternative journalist" and asks for the support of AAN members.

Gov. Mike Huckabee is fuming at journalists for reporting on online wedding registries established for his housewarming, the Democrat-Gazette reports. When he was asked why his wife of 32 years would register for wedding gifts, Huckabee lashed out at the editor of the Arkansas Times, who broke the story on his blog: "I think you let Max Brantley and a blog, a gossip tabloid, create a story for you, and that’s really sad." The incident compounds the already-bad blood between the governor's office and the Little Rock alt-weekly.