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Gizmodo:
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.
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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 …
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.
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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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.
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
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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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Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent — US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent; pace of decline eases — Related Quotes — NEW YORK (AP) — Circulation continues to drop at U.S. newspapers. — Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show average weekday …
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).
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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 …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Revolution Will Be Commercialized — Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it's a position with a very big salary. — On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold …
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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.
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 …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Bloomberg and Businessweek Mesh Gingerly — When Bloomberg L.P. bought Businessweek in December, a group of the magazine's writers, who were being transferred to the Bloomberg newswire, attended a two-week training session. They learned that the terminals, costing about $20,000 a year …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow — As AOL pours $50 million into its hyperlocal news site Patch.com to expand its sites around the country, smaller competitors are maintaining confidence that their platforms can survive AOL's aggressive content strategy.
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Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
The Simpsons Stand Behind South Park with Help of Bart's Chalkboard [Video] — The Simpsons and South Park have made fun of each other in the past, but tonight's Simpsons opened with a quick but touching show of inter-cartoon support, courtesy of Bart's chalkboard.
Jacqueline Reis / Worcester Telegram & Gazette:
T&G plans paid website — Print subscribers read free — WORCESTER — The Telegram & Gazette will begin charging some online readers for locally produced news content on its website, telegram.com, starting this summer. — Newspaper subscribers will continue to be able to access all content at no charge.
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.
Financial Times:
Buy-out firms prepare to float Nielsen — Nielsen, the world's largest TV and consumer measurement company, will begin auditioning bankers next month for one of the largest US initial public offerings in recent years
Steve Cohn / MinOnline:
Burgess Leaves OK! for Hollywood Reporter — Lori Burgess, OK! publisher since September 2008, resigned this morning (April 26) to join the Richard Beckman-led e5 Global Media as The Hollywood Reporter publisher. — “I'm very excited—we've got ambitious plans in the works,” she tells min.