Mediagazer: Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia's Tow Center hopes to find out (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

2:30 PM ET, May 16, 2013

Top News:

DOJ seizure of AP records raises question: Is ‘chilling effect’ real? — National-security reporters on the impact of federal scrutiny — Since news broke Monday that the Justice Department had secretly accessed the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors over a two-month period …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Kirk LaPointe's …, The Technology Chronicles, emptywheel, @trevortimm and New York Times

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
DOJ Tactics Against AP Raise Concerns For The New York Times

Discussion: New York Times, FishbowlNY, emptywheel and Associated Press

Washington Post:
Some question whether AP leak on al-Qaeda plot put U.S. at risk

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post and Fortune

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Your Next Horror Movie Franchise Isn't a Movie - It's an App — Neal Edelstein, producer of “The Ring” and “Mulholland Drive,” has made what may be a game-changing ghost story — The iPad 2 changed Neal Edelstein's life. Edelstein had been working as a producer for more than a decade …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine and Softpedia News

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app

Discussion: Bloomberg, CBC News and TUAW

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Trinity Mirror says revenue down 10 per cent year on year but rate of decline slowing — Trinity Mirror's revenue for the first four months of the year fell by 10 per cent compared to the same period in 2013. — But in a statement to the stock market, the group revealed that the rate of decline is slowing.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, The Drum and HoldTheFrontPage

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror: ‘too soon’ to know outcome of phone-hacking inquiry

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk and Media Week

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Zinio, First Mover In Digital Magazines, Moves To The Netflix Model — The so-called first mover advantage is really only an advantage if you don't get too far out ahead of your customer. Founded in 2001, the digital magazines company Zinio was arguably a good eight years ahead of its time.

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

NewsRight, ambitious attempt at licensing newspaper content, quietly folds — Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators, has gone out of business. — NewsRight's own news release describes the dissolution …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter — Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows. But not all TV companies believe tying up with the social-media site is such a great idea.

Discussion: @hblodget, NetNewsCheck Latest and @keachhagey

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Tribune CEO Says Furor Over Koch Newspaper Sale Is Premature — Tribune Co. (TRBAA) Chief Executive Officer Peter Liguori, responding to a protest over a possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to Koch Industries Inc., said speculation over potential buyers of the company's papers is “premature.”

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Poynter and @edmundlee

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Skift's approach to building a new media company: It's as much about data as it is about news — Despite the many miserable prognoses for the future of the media business, a few stubborn entrepreneurs still see fit to venture into content-driven companies. Such people - including PandoDaily's …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia's Tow Center hopes to find out — Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia's Emily Bell said Thursday.

Bloomberg:

Music Publishers Lose Bid for Class Status in YouTube Suit — A federal judge denied class-action status to music publishers who sued Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube, claiming that it violated copyrights by allowing the posting of music clips on the website without authorization.

Discussion: Reuters

James O'Brien / Forbes:

How A Journalist Created His Own Beat And Tapped Into A New Sports Trend — Justin Rice worked for years as a journalist in and around Boston, struggling to get noticed by the Sports section. In 2009, his success came from an unlikely place: a 17-year-old former tomboy who made team captain within …

Discussion: Boston Globe and Big News Network.com

Gordon MacMillan / Media Week:

Ian Katz to leave Guardian for editor role at BBC Newsnight — Ian Katz the long-time deputy editor of The Guardian and heir apparent to Alan Rusbridger is to leave the paper and take up the top job at ‘Newsnight’, the BBC's troubled current affairs flagship. Katz has worked at the Guardian since 1990.