Mediagazer: Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers (Gizmodo)

4:05 AM ET, April 27, 2010

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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.

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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!, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Daggle 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: Bits, LAPTOP Mag, Bloomberg, The Volokh Conspiracy and Citizen Media Law Project

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

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 …

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Choire / The Awl:
Gawker Media Claims Reporter Exemption in Gizmodo Raid

Discussion: citmedialaw.org, The Editorialiste and Fast Company

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 …

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John Koblin / New York Observer:

Robert Thomson and Les Hinton Introduce ‘Greater New York’ at the Plaza … “We are a national newspaper with a New York heart,” said Les Hinton, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in his British accent. “We are, after all, named after a famous Manhattan street.”

Discussion: FishbowlNY, NPR, New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Wire

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
New York Times Executives Belittle Murdoch's Wall Street Journal …

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Mobile Blogger “Boy Genius” Unmasked, Acquired — You probably haven't heard of Jonathan Geller. But you may have read his site. Geller's Boy Genius Report is avidly followed by those obsessed with mobile phones and the companies who make them. — Among those paying attention …

Boy Genius Report:
Taking BGR to the next level — MMC acquires BGR

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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 …

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

Discussion: ABCNEWS and paidContent

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: Mashable!, Runnin' Scared, Wall Street Journal, CJR and Gothamist

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.

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 …

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: Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and Ars Technica

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

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

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.

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: Media Gleaner and TVWeek.com

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

Investigative journalism bureau will embrace multimedia and government data analysis, says head — “If you define investigative journalism purely as the search for the next Watergate, you are going to be waiting a long time before that lands in your lap.” — That's not to say the UK's …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Michele Mclellan / RJI:

Seeking sustainability: The business of nonprofit news — Community connectedness and diverse revenue streams are critical ingredients for success for nonprofit news organizations. That's my headline the conversation at the Knight Foundation's “Seeking Sustainability” …

Todd Spangler / Multichannel:

DirecTV, Dish Team On Interactive Ads With ‘ASAP’ — Satellite Companies Launch ‘Advanced Satellite Advertising Platform’ — DirecTV and Dish Network may be fighting tooth and nail for subscribers, but they have buddied up to try to sell interactive TV advertising to big-budget marketers …

Discussion: rbr.com and Broadcasting & Cable