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

9:40 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.

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

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: Silicon Alley Insider

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: New York Times and Geekosystem

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Daring Fireball

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

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: Epicenter, Financial Times, DailyFinance, Romenesko, NY1 Living, New York Observer, BuzzMachine, Vanity Fair, NPR, 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, FishbowlNY, Crain's New York Business, blogs.tampabay.com, BusinessJournalism.org …, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, The Daily Beast, The Awl, New York Observer, Strupp, Talking Biz News, Guardian and Mediaite

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 and Romenesko

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, Media Decoder, Guardian, Gannett Blog, Romenesko, Jon Slattery, Media Buyer Planner, The Wire, News Corp. Blog and The Huffington Post

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

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

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

Discussion: paidContent and ABCNEWS

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

In Its Local Brawl With The NYT, The WSJ Pulls Out Some Foursquare Badges — The Wall Street Journal introduced a metro section today for Greater New York in Rupert Murdoch's ongoing efforts to go after the New York Times. The top story right now is “Rats Mob The Upper East Side” (seriously).

Discussion: Mashable!, Poynter Online and The Wire

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog and Faster Future

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 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

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

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

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, Local Onliner, WebNewser and SeeClickFix

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

Michael Wolff / Newser:

Murdoch Chronicles: Is Rupert Pissed at James? — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — James Murdoch's understanding with his father has been that, at an imminent time, he would take the next step in the family succession by moving to New York from his post in London where he runs the European and Asian operations of News Corp.

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

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Google to Eliminate Agency Search Fees — Along With New Certification Program, Change Is Part of Web Giant's Charm Offensive for Bigger Ad Budgets — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google will announce Monday it is eliminating the fees it has long charged agencies to tap into its search ad auction system …

Discussion: Inside AdWords, Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, paidContent and Screenwerk

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 …