Mediagazer: At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu (AllThingsD)

11:35 PM ET, May 15, 2013

Top News:

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Criticized on Seizure of Records, White House Pushes News Media Shield Law — WASHINGTON — Under fire over the Justice Department's use of a broad subpoena to obtain calling records of Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak investigation, the Obama administration sought …

Discussion: The Lead with Jake Tapper, msnbc.com, The Huffington Post, The Plum Line, Twitchy, @dankennedy_nu, The New Republic, Mother Jones, @trevortimm, CNN, Capital New York, ThinkProgress, The Week, The Caucus, Michelle Malkin and RealClearPolitics Video Log

Associated Press:

Senate Dem revives media shield law — WASHINGTON — A top Senate Democrat plans to revive legislation that would protect journalists and their employers from revealing their sources, days after it was revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained Associated Press phone records.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and Associated Press

Mark Memmott / NPR:

Holder Isn't Sure How Often Reporters' Records Are Seized … As his Justice Department faces bipartisan outrage for searching phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says he is not sure how many times such information has been seized by government investigators …

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, emptywheel, The Latest Word, The Daily Caller, Post Politics, Mediashift and Foreign Policy

Erik Wemple:

AP subpoena: Journo says he lost sources in 2001 case — In denouncing the secret subpoena of its phone records by the Justice Department, the Associated Press talked, in part, about its journalistic lifeblood: “These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Broadcasting & Cable and Poynter

New York Times:
Holder Defends Justice Department in Journalists' Records Seizure

Discussion: Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post, Politico, Mediaite, Senator Wyden's Press Feed, Techdirt, The Daily Caller, The Volokh Conspiracy, msnbc.com, FishbowlNY, emptywheel, TVWeek.com, The Huffington Post and Daily Mail

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Leak Investigations Are an Assault on the Press, and on Democracy, Too

Discussion: The Plum Line, Capital New York, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, E Pluribus Unum and Guardian

Timothy Lee / Washington Post:
In AP surveillance case, the real scandal is what's legal

Discussion: Poynter, law.cornell.edu, Media Matters Action Network, Hit & Run, Free Press Blog, Fortune and @ggreenwald

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads — Microsoft updated its own YouTube application for Windows Phone just over a week ago and Google isn't impressed. The Verge has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter that Google has sent to Microsoft recently …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Businessweek, CNET, AppleInsider, Wired, ZDNet, Windows Phone, GeekWire, YouTube News, AndroidHeadlines.com, AllThingsD, Digital Spy, Engadget, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, BGR and ReadWrite

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz — Technology gives journalists unprecedented power to track down information. And technology gives lots of other people the ability to follow journalists' footprints. Just ask the Associated Press.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, New Yorker, Poynter, The New Yorker Blog, Forbes, Folio, The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, Runnin' Scared, paidContent, Foreign Policy and Kirk LaPointe's …

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Newsweek.com Redesign Aims to Be ‘Snow Fall’ on a Weekly Basis — Metered Pay Wall Planned for New Browser-Based Experience — A team comprised of Newsweek staffers and employees of the design firm Huge were two months into the redesign of Newsweek.com — which will roll out today in beta …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Capital New York and Nieman Journalism Lab

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lobbying after split — News Corp. has hired D.C. insider Toni Cook Bush. (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) — News Corp. has hired a D.C. heavyweight to handle its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill after it becomes primarily a newspaper publishing company.

Discussion: Business Wire

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

With Thirst's Droplet, the vision for news on Google Glass becomes a little clearer — One of the big questions about Google Glass is how it will affect the way we consume information (if, that is, it gains popularity and acceptance in mainstream culture). In particular, many people …

Discussion: Mashable, VentureBeat and AppNewser

AllThingsD:

At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu — At least two pay TV operators, including cable giant Time Warner Cable Inc., are weighing an investment in Hulu as the online video site considers a range of strategic options, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Bloomberg and Variety

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of where NewsRight went wrong — Quietly, very quietly, NewsRight — once touted as the American newspaper industry's bid to protect its content and make more money from it — has closed its doors. — Yesterday, it conducted a concluding board meeting, aimed at tying up loose ends.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review:

Political ad windfall drives local TV consolidation — As a trend accelerates, industry and activists disagree about the consequences — As campaign ads saturated the airwaves during the 2012 campaign, and piles of campaign cash buoyed stations' balance sheets, media watchers wondered …