Mediagazer: Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

3:10 PM ET, May 14, 2013

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Michael H. Miller / The New York Observer:

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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:

Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Justice Department Subpoena of AP Journalists Shows Need to Protect Calling Records

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

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Reuters:

Britain charges reporter on Murdoch's Sun in corruption probe — British prosecutors have charged a reporter on Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper over alleged payments of more than 17,000 pounds ($26,000) to officials for details of confidential government spending plans.

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

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