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Ann E. Marimow and Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
President Obama says journalists should not be prosecuted for soliciting information — President Obama told advisers that he is not interested in prosecuting reporters for soliciting information from government officials, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.
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Politico, TVNewser, Hit & Run, Reuters, Mother Jones, RT, New York Times, The Verge, Erik Wemple, CNN, The Plum Line, The Fix, Fox News Insider, Post Politics and The Huffington Post
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Report: Justice Dept. seized multiple Fox News, White House phone records — The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza has uncovered more details about the Justice Dept.'s investigation into the former State Dept. contractor who is accused of leaking classified information to James Rosen, the Fox News reporter.
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New Yorker, Committee to Protect …, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com and MinnPost
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News: ‘They went into our computer servers at Fox News’ — Yesterday afternoon on Fox News, host Shepard Smith issued a stunning statement. In a chat with judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, Smith took apart the revelations about Justice Department snooping into the communications …
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TVNewser, NewsBusters blogs, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable and The Week
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
James Rosen Subpoena Doesn't Suggest Charges Against Fox News Reporter, DOJ Says
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Politico, Jack Shafer, The Hill and Big News Network.com
John Koblin / Deadspin:
Sources: ESPN Laying Off Hundreds [UPDATE] — ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
My one talk with Marissa Mayer — It was 2003. Google had just bought Blogger. On the acquisition, they said they wouldn't do anything to tilt the table in favor of Blogger. There was concern in the wider blogging community that Google might use its power in search to give people …
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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:
Source: Tumblr Made Even Less Money Than Reported Last Year
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TechCrunch, Betabeat, SocialTimes and Business Insider
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Many Users Does Tumblr Really Have?
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New York Times, Forbes, Quartz, WebProNews, the Econsultancy blog and Business Insider
Ian Morris / Pocket-lint:
Microsoft announces Halo TV series for Xbox One produced by Steven Spielberg — Microsoft has called in the big guns to produce content for Xbox, and names don't come bigger than Steven Spielberg and Halo. So news there will be a Halo live action TV show, commissioned for Xbox Live, and produced by Spielberg is big news.
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Variety, Wired, Forbes, Forbes, VentureBeat, Forbes, Wired, AdAge, Speakeasy, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, TechRadar.com, Business Insider, VentureBeat and All
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Devin Coldewey / NBC News:
Xbox One brings speech, gestures, multitasking to TV
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TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, GigaOM, PC World, The Next Web, VentureBeat, SlashGear, CNET, Mirror.co.uk, SiliconANGLE, Trusted Reviews, The Verge and Gizmodo
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Oklahoma governor thanks media for tornado coverage — Tuesday morning, Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin thanked her state's media for saving lives with early storm warnings and non-stop coverage of the recovery efforts. Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb called TV station meterologists “top notch and first-rate.”
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
OKC's TV news excels in another disaster — Life-saving information before the tornado, essential reporting afterward — In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news stations in my home state.
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New York Times, Gawker, Poynter, tyndall report posts, UPROXX, The Wrap, Mediaite, MinOnline, The Wrap, @nycjim, New Yorker, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, TVSpy and B&C
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Jann Wenner Explains Why He Named His 22-Year-Old Son to Run Rollingstone.com — Jann Wenner has picked his son, Gus, 22, to head up Rollingstone.com, overseeing its editorial and business operations. And while critics were quick to cry nepotism, the senior Wenner told Adweek that his son had to prove himself like anyone else.
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@raphaelptw, FishbowlNY, @jamisonfoser, Gawker, New York Magazine, @craigsj, @saramorrison and @hunterw
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Sorry, Media, America Couldn't Care Less About The Government Taking AP's Phone Records — Here's a healthy reminder that the issues that outrage and fascinate members of the media are often quite different than the ones that media consumers (a.k.a., normal people) care about.
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Pew Research Center … and The Huffington Post
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Christina Chaey / Fast Company:
Pandora Premieres Lets You Preview Albums A Week Before They Launch — “Radio stations used to play a record all the way through. You'd anticipate that eagerly. That's exactly what we're trying to do.” That's Pandora CEO Tim Westergren on the online radio giant's newly launched Pandora Premieres …
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection — The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost. — The 20th century's printed output …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Knight Foundation, Knight Foundation, Broadcasting & Cable and FishbowlLA
Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS Earns First Full-Season 18-49 Demo Win in 21 Years — Fox slips to second as falling ‘Idol’ deals net biggest declines — With two nights remaining, CBS has won the 2012-13 season in total viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49, according to Nielsen ratings through May 19.
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Mediaite, Radio & Television … and The Wrap
David Ingram / Reuters:
Court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secret — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.
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Bloomberg, The Huffington Post and WebProNews
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