Twice married and twice divorced, Valerie Trierweiler covered French politics as a journalist for more than 20 years with no inkling that she would one day become France's first lady, certainly not when she fell for Francois Hollande a jovial, unglamorous leftist politician who hardly seemed like presidential material. They are the first unmarried couple to occupy the presidential Élysée Palace together, following close on the heels of the new president of Germany, Joachim Gauck, whose live-in companion is also a journalist. That these arrangements were no bar to office is a sign of how European attitudes about families have changed.

In an amusing post, Poynter links to a Daily Beast piece on correspondence from former Washington Post executive editor Bill -- oops, Ben -- Bradlee. 

In one of series of essays marking the Baltimore Sun's 175th anniversary, former police reporter-turned-TV writer David Simon celebrates the  rewrite man and night editor who taught him how to be a reporter, David Michael Ettlin, a classic newsroom character. "The wardrobe was disastrous. He made the rest of the slumming metro veterans look almost plausible. His laugh was a cackle, employed liberally against the farts and foibles of the important and famous. From humanity, he expected farce and scandal at all points, adoring an absurd, senseless murder most of all. He never lost at Scrabble, he had 10 different ways of saying anything in print, and yeah, if he acted as if he'd seen it all without ever leaving a newsroom, it was only because he had." Find all the essays here.

A new service, Geofeedia, aims to help take the guesswork out of social media searches for reporters covering breaking news. Users can type in a place name, address, even the name of a sports venue, or they can simply outline an area on a map. The service will display the latest geotagged content — from Twitter, Instagram, Picasa, Flickr and YouTube — within that area.