Mediagazer: Updated: BBC, C4, Five, IT Going After TV Streamers; Zattoo Removes Streams (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

9:05 AM ET, April 27, 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!, TechCrunch, Daggle, Silicon Alley Insider and Daring Fireball

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: Between the Lines, paidContent, The Consumerist, New York Magazine, Silicon Alley Insider, The Snitch 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: LAPTOP Mag, Bits, Bloomberg, New York Times and The Volokh Conspiracy

Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Cops Bust Into Gizmodo Editor's Home And Seize Computers …

Discussion: GigaOM, CNET News, Podcasting News, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Wrap

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 …

Discussion: Slate, Romenesko, BuzzMachine, FishbowlNY, Gawker, MediaPost, NY1 Living, DailyFinance, Vanity Fair, Crain's New York Business, New York Magazine, Financial Times, New York Observer, Gothamist, The Wire and The Awl

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: NPR, FishbowlNY, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Vanity Fair and New York Times

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Print War Between NYT and WSJ Is Really About Digital

Discussion: Soup

Editor and Publisher:
Growing ‘Wall St. Journal’ Tops Daily Circulation List

Discussion: MarketWatch, Newspaper Association …, Associated Press, FishbowlNY, DailyFinance, MediaFile, Guardian, Tower Ticker, Gannett Blog, The Wire, Media Buyer Planner, Romenesko, Jon Slattery, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post and News Corp. Blog

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

Discussion: ABCNEWS and paidContent

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

Discussion: paidContent

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Updated: BBC, C4, Five, IT Going After TV Streamers; Zattoo Removes Streams — The legality of services like Zattoo and TVCatchUp, which re-stream public-service TV channels via what they say is a provision in copyright law, has long been a hornet's nest waiting to be stirred.

Steve O'Hear / last100:
Zattoo turns off BBC streams, could TVCatchup be forced to do the same?

Discussion: NewTeeVee

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: Journalism.co.uk, Online Journalism Blog and Faster Future

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

Discussion: GigaOM, the Econsultancy blog, Editors Weblog, Mashable!, CJR, Runnin' Scared, Gothamist, Wall Street Journal and Poynter Online

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: Press Gazette, Guardian and Editors Weblog

Dan Zak / Washington Post:

Washington Blade to resume publishing — The District's long-running gay weekly will resume publishing under its original name, the Washington Blade, at the end of this week, after the acquisition of the Blade's assets in bankruptcy court in Atlanta. — In late February …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC and DCist

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.

Discussion: New York Observer

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 …

Discussion: B&C and FishbowlLA

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!, Ars Technica and ReadWriteWeb

Etan Horowitz / CNN:

Social media ‘watershed’ predicted for World Cup — Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — World Cup fans have never been shy about expressing their opinions, but this year's tournament in South Africa — which will be the first of the “social media age” according to many — may see record levels of global interactivity.

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Why Did Apple Just Hire A Blogger? (AAPL) — Looking to get your iPhone or iPad game highlighted in Apple's App Store? Matt Casamassina appears to be your man. — Matt announced on his blog Apple hired him to be “global editorial games manager” for the App Store, which means he …

Discussion: Network World

rbr.com:

Citadel Media, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski partner for new show — Citadel Media announced development plans for a new three-hour program to be hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. The new show will offer an expanded radio platform for the two popular media personalities.

Discussion: TVNewser and Media Decoder

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