Mediagazer: Sandvine: Netflix owns one-third of North American traffic at peak, has doubled its mobile share in 12 months (Emil Protalinski/The Next Web)

4:20 PM ET, May 14, 2013

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Michael H. Miller / The New York Observer:

Just a Crook? Pentagon Papers Lawyer Thinks Obama Is Worse Than Nixon — James C. Goodale, the so-called “father of reporters' privilege” and the author of a new book called Fighting for the Press (CUNY Journalism Press, 255 pp., $20), was in his office at the Debevoise & Plimpton law firm …

Discussion: Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable and Hillicon Valley

nycsouthpaw / BuzzFeed:

Republicans In Congress Killed A Media Shield Law That Would Have Protected The Associated Press — The defeated bill would have required approval from a federal court before reporters' phone records were subpoenaed. Darrell Issa, who condemned the AP subpoena Monday, was one of only 21 House Members to vote against the bill.

Discussion: Capital New York, The Week, The Huffington Post and msnbc.com

Bloomberg:

Holder Recuses Himself From Journalist Phone Records Seizure — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said he has recused himself from an investigation that led to the collection of phone records from the Associated Press. — Holder told reporters today in Washington that he recused himself …

Discussion: McClatchy Washington Bureau, Daily Mail, Foreign Policy, Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, Guardian and BBC

The Huffington Post:

Jay Carney On DOJ's AP Records Scandal: ‘Wholly Inappropriate’ To Comment — Jay Carney endured an unrelenting grilling on Tuesday about what media watchdogs have called unprecedented actions by the Department of Justice to secretly obtain months of Associated Press phone records.

Discussion: The Fix, The Huffington Post, Politico, CNN, Associated Press and The Week

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Condemnation Of DOJ's AP Probe Continues; Carl Bernstein Calls It ‘Inexcusable’

Discussion: Politico and Washington Post

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

Discussion: Business Insider, Techdirt and The Huffington Post

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

DealBook:

American Investor Targets Sony for a Breakup — Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle that could roil Japan's famously staid corporate culture.

Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:

Source: Bloomberg Was Supposed to Cut Off Spying Last Year, But Didn't — A high-ranking newsroom official for Bloomberg News was ordered last year to cut off reporters' access to information about how clients used the company's information terminals, according to a former Bloomberg reporter, but the spying continued anyway.

Discussion: Felix Salmon, New York Times, Business Insider, Financial Times, The Verge and Politicker

Wall Street Journal:
FDIC and Bloomberg In Contact Over Data

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Heidi Moore / Guardian:
The Bloomberg ‘snooping scandal’ is completely overblown

Discussion: Fortune, New York Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Tell, Naked Security, AllThingsD, The Dish and Mashable

David Carr / New York Times:

The Two-Way Street That Is Snooping and the News Media — Word on Monday that the Justice Department had obtained the records of more than 20 phone lines at The Associated Press sent the Fourth Estate into a frenzy. Big Government, Big Data, Big Brother, all the golems of an increasing surveillance-driven age were invoked.

Discussion: Media Nation, msnbc.com, Associated Press and Business Insider

Jonathan Skillings / CNET:

Aereo gets set for Atlanta debut — The capital of Georgia will be the third city to get the TV streaming service, following New York and, from tomorrow, Boston. — Aereo is getting on a roll, with plans now to bring its streaming TV service to Atlanta. — The Atlanta launch is scheduled …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Home Media Magazine, The Wrap, paidContent, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Atlantic Media to Launch Another Digital-First Brand, for Defense Community — Six months after launching digital business site Quartz, Atlantic Media is preparing to roll out its fifth brand and second “digital-first” property. Defense One, a news and information site for the national security community …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Folio, PandoDaily, FishbowlNY, Mashable and eMedia Vitals

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

World Press Photo: ‘No evidence of significant photo manipulation’ in Paul Hansen's award-winning shot — World Press Photo says Paul Hansen's photo of mourners in Gaza was “retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone. Beyond this, however, we find no evidence of significant photo manipulation or compositing.”

Discussion: worldpressphoto.org and CNET

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop

Discussion: UK News and Opinion, The Hacker Factor Blog, NEWS.com.au and The Hacker Factor Blog

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Sandvine: Netflix owns one-third of North American traffic at peak, has doubled its mobile share in 12 months — Once again, broadband Internet service tracking firm Sandvine has released its latest report for North America, and once again, Netflix is ruling Internet usage.

Discussion: GigaOM, AllThingsD, Daily Download and Softpedia News

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.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia and The Huffington Post

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Advertisers Will Spend Nearly $10 Billion This Week On A Broken TV Model — This week, advertisers will sit down with the broadcast TV networks and hash out their “upfront” ad buying deals for the year. — The talks are one of advertising's huge, dramatic set-pieces.

Discussion: AdAge, Variety and New York Times