Mediagazer: Video Ad Startup FreeWheel Raises $16.8M From Turner, Disney And Others (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

10:50 PM ET, April 26, 2010

Top News:

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. — They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

iPhone Leak Investigation Pauses As DA Ponders Gizmodo Shield Law Defense — Earlier today news broke that police had raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in connection with the iPhone leak last week. Authorities got a search warrant and removed four computers, two servers, and more.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Consumerist, Engadget, MacRumors and Silicon Alley Insider

Dan Frommer / The Wire:

Cops Bust Into Gizmodo Editor's Home And Seize Computers, Documents In iPhone Probe (AAPL) — Police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in Fremont, Calif. last week, seizing computers and other gadgets, as detectives probe how the gadget blog editor obtained an Apple iPhone prototype …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider and Daring Fireball

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:

Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Reporter's Home — Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week.

Discussion: Geekosystem and New York Times

Yahoo! News:

What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case? — The California criminal investigation into the case of the errant Apple G4 iPhone that Gizmodo.com unveiled before legions of curious Internet readers last week is noteworthy in its potential to make new media law.

Discussion: Mashable!, Daggle and Silicon Alley Insider

Choire / The Awl:

Gawker Media Claims Reporter Exemption in Gizmodo Raid — When Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's computer was seized Friday night (as part of the investigation into Apple's missing/stolen iPhone), after the issuance of a search warrant, Gawker Media's lawyer/COO Gaby Darbyshire claimed that the warrant was invalid, due to reporter privilege.

Discussion: The Editorialiste, citmedialaw.org, DailyFinance, Guardian and TechCrunch

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Wall Street Journal Says It's Up to You, New York, New York — The Wall Street Journal's much-anticipated New York edition hit the doorsteps of the city and brought with it the first broadsheet newspaper competition in decades. — Soon after buying The Wall Street Journal in 2007 …

Discussion: MediaPost, Epicenter, DailyFinance, Financial Times, Romenesko, New York Observer, BuzzMachine, Vanity Fair, NPR, NY1 Living, Gothamist, Editors Weblog, The Awl and FishbowlNY

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

New York Times Executives Belittle Murdoch's Wall Street Journal To Advertisers In Staff Memo (NYT) — As the Wall Street Journal paper-bombs the city with their new New York section, New York Times' top executives publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson send out a message to their staffers.

Discussion: paidContent, MediaPost, Media Money …, GigaOM, The Huffington Post, blogs.tampabay.com, Crain's New York Business, BusinessJournalism.org …, FishbowlNY, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, The Daily Beast, New York Observer, The Awl, Strupp, Talking Biz News, Mediaite and Guardian

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
So What's in the New Journal New York Section, Debuting Today?

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Runnin' Scared, FishbowlNY, Gothamist, Romenesko and Crain's New York Business

Editor and Publisher:

Growing ‘Wall St. Journal’ Tops Daily Circulation List — CHICAGO On the same day it launched its “Greater New York” edition, The Wall Street Journal Monday topped the list of the nation's largest-circulation daily newspapers. The Journal was the only daily among the 10 largest to gain circulation …

Discussion: MarketWatch, DailyFinance, MediaFile, Guardian, Gannett Blog, The Huffington Post, Media Decoder, Romenesko, Media Buyer Planner, Jon Slattery, The Wire and News Corp. Blog

Jon Chesto / Mass. Market:
Downside to a price hike: The Globe loses nearly one fourth of its paid readers

Discussion: paidContent and The Huffington Post

Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent

Discussion: Newspaper Association …, AdAge, The Biz Blog, Gawker, LA Observed, Tower Ticker, New York Times, Gannett Blog and FishbowlLA

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News — Checking-in at a venue around town with the Foursquare mobile location app could now come with a thought provoking payload: a news link related to the place you're at. The Wall St. Journal announced today that as a part of its new focus on covering New York City …

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog and Faster Future

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
In Its Local Brawl With The NYT, The WSJ Pulls Out Some Foursquare Badges

Discussion: CJR, Mashable!, Poynter Online and The Wire

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing — Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing. — Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Twitter Taking Down Tweets Over Bogus DMCA Claims — You may recall the controversy over Google reacting too aggressively in pulling down music blog posts (or entire blogs) based on DMCA takedown notices. Eventually, Google revamped its DMCA policy to better handle the situation, though there have still been some complaints.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Yahoo's Identity Heft — Web publisher to tap more journos to help find its ‘voice’ — Yahoo is on the verge of hiring more traditional journalists as it plans to aggressively beef up original content for its top verticals, including news, business and entertainment.

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

EveryBlock Partners With SeeClickFix To Add Local Complaints To Its Feeds — EveryBlock—the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator—is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets anybody report an issue in need of government action in their community.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, WebNewser, Local Onliner and SeeClickFix

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

What Is Conde Nast Doing Making Kenneth Cole's YouTube Ads? — Under Threat, Media Push Further Into Agency Territory — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could the day soon arrive when a marketer will consider NBC Universal, Meredith Corp. or Conde Nast alongside BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy or JWT …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and the Econsultancy blog

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

NSFW: TechCrunch TV - Which Part Of 'Don't Employ Me' Do You Not Understand? — Back in July of last year, I wrote my first NSFW column for TechCrunch. Having just been fired from the Guardian, I described my hiring as a “ridiculously misguided experiment” and gave Mike Arrington three weeks …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Sean Blanda / eMedia Vitals:

Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora — As Paul Bradshaw and many others have pointed out, there is a natural synergy between music and news. Both are content-driven industries that are struggling to adapt to new forms of distribution. — But the similarities don't end there.

Discussion: The Next Web

Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:

The (potential) problem with fact-checking the Sunday morning shows — The trend is a good one: To independently fact-check guests after they appear on the Sunday morning talk shows, since hosts don't have all the resources at hand to do that kind of thing, and even if they did, real-time fact-checking would make for clumsy television.

Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com and FishbowlDC

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Meet the Newest TVNewser — We're happy to announce that Alex Weprin is joining mediabistro.com as co-editor of TVNewser and editor of WebNewser. — Alex joins us from Broadcasting & Cable where he is a reporter and online editor covering the intersection of new media and the television business …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Video Ad Startup FreeWheel Raises $16.8M From Turner, Disney And Others — Video advertising company FreeWheel has raised $16.8 million in funding from Disney's Steamboat Ventures, and existing investors, including Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures, and Foundation Capital.

Discussion: MediaPost, PR Newswire, NewTeeVee, MediaPost, paidContent, Beet.TV and VideoNuze

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Reading between the lines: Collaboration panel all smiles, but subtext tells more nuanced story — The New York Times hasn't had a single bad experience partnering with another news organization. Neither has ProPublica, or California Watch. The same is true for NPR and PBS Newshour.