Mediagazer: The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue Him (Eriq Gardner/ABA Journal)

3:00 AM ET, April 25, 2012

Top News:

Jeremy Hunt and NewsCorp: all the emails — Evidence provided by Rupert Murdoch to the Leveson inquiry shows that Conservative minister Jeremy Hunt maintained close contact with News Corporation while the company attempted take full ownership of BSkyB

Discussion: Guardian, Tom Watson MP, Guardian and Guardian

Nick Davies / Guardian:

The questions Rupert Murdoch must answer at the Leveson inquiry — The News Corp boss must address allegations over the BSkyB bid, his relationship with politicians and his papers' illegal activity — All of the questions are directed to testing key allegations.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Reuters and Media Decoder

Press Gazette:
Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly backed BSkyB bid’

Discussion: paidContent, Guardian, Telegraph, Reuters, The Independent, Guardian, @lisaocarroll and BBC

Guardian:
How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid

Discussion: CJR, @bobwheaton1, @nytjim, @skynewsbreak, Guardian, Guardian, Business Insider, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Huffington Post UK:
Leveson Inquiry: David Cameron Met James Murdoch 12 Times While In Opposition, Did Discuss BSkyB

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian, Reuters and Guardian

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Should the NYT charge for early access to the news? — The New York Times recently ran an exclusive exposé about Walmart and bribery allegations in Mexico, a story that helped to shave about $16 billion from the retailing giant's market value over the past few days.

Discussion: Forbes and Capital New York

Felix Salmon:
Could the NYT make money from its scoops?

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Capital New York, The Consumerist and business.time.com

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

The future of TV isn't TV, it's broadband. — As government strives to keep up with the broadband age, the Senate's Commerce Committee held a hearing today covering the future of television, but midway through the hearing I realized that the Senate has it all wrong.

Discussion: U.S. Senate Committee …, Washington Post, PC Magazine, Digits, Bloomberg and Betabeat

Ben Dowell / Guardian:

Twitter users to be arrested over naming of Ched Evans rape victim — Police also investigating Sky News after inadvertently displaying a Twitter feed identifying 19-year-old victim in a report — Police are planning to arrest a number of Twitter users who are alleged to have named …

Discussion: Mirror.co.uk, BBC, ZDNet, north-wales.police.uk and Telegraph

Michael Rundle / Huffington Post UK:
Sky News Accidentally Names Ched Evans Rape Victim

Discussion: @fieldproducer, Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post

Aruna Viswanatha / Reuters:

Exclusive: SEC probes movie studios over dealings in China — (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are investigating major U.S. movie studios' dealings with China as the entertainment companies try to get a greater foothold in one of the fastest-growing movie markets in the world.

Discussion: New York Times, The Next Web, Deadline.com and Engadget

Nicholas Thompson / The New Yorker Blog:

Is Netflix Doomed? — For a while, Netflix seemed like the smartest tech company around. Searching for movies online was easy; mailing them back off-line was cathartic. The company constantly tweaked its red envelopes, trying to create one that you could open while tipsy and seal one-handed while late for work.

Felix Salmon:
The problem with Netflix — Nick Thompson today asks whether Netflix …

Discussion: @tcarmody

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Tribune Company does deal with Journatic — The Tribune Company announced Monday it's turning over TribLocal to Journatic—which the Tribune describes as a “Chicago-based media content provider” that “aggregates data.” Not just Chicago-based, it's Tribune Tower-based …

Discussion: Chicago Business, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, Street Fight, Chicago Tribune and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Eliot Spitzer on his new show: 'Look, my mom watches, she's happy' — Eliot Spitzer's been back as a full-time cable news host for almost a month now. So the former New York governor's had plenty of time to warm up for his first grilling from the press about his new show, “Viewpoint,” …

Discussion: Mediaite

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

OWS protestor doesn't own his tweets, judge rules — In a candid ruling, a New York judge said a protester can't stop prosecutors from searching his Twitter account because he doesn't own the tweets in the first place. — Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. cited a “widely-believed” but “mistaken” …

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Eriq Gardner / ABA Journal:

The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue Him — Almost anyone who uses the Internet and is slightly curious about their own digital existence has, over the past decade, had what might be termed a Google moment. These are times …

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Ex-HuffPo leaders' stealth video startup Planet Daily raises $5M — The details are still fuzzy on the new stealth video startup Planet Daily Networks, founded by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer and former CEO Eric Hippeau, but it appears that the company has nabbed $5 million in funding …

Discussion: Business Insider and Betabeat

Mike Flynn / Breitbart.com:

NPR Fails To Disclose Reporter's Ties To Activist Group — This weekend, NPR aimed its taxpayer-subsidized guns at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a relatively unknown membership association of state legislators. ALEC, a non-profit 501 (c)3 founded in the 1970s …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Mediaite and Washington Post