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12:00 AM ET, May 23, 2013

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Washington Post:
Judge apologizes for lack of transparency in James Rosen leak probe  —  The chief judge of the District's federal court issued an unusual order Wednesday, apologizing to the public and the media for not making certain court documents widely available online.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters  —  There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama administration's spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a “co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor” in an espionage case.
Gregory J. Millman / Wall Street Journal:
When the IRS Secretly Obtained My Phone Records
Discussion: Poynter and Talking Biz News
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Twitter does the two-step, gets serious on security with new authentication feature  —  After a series of high profile hacks, Twitter is finally getting serious about log-in security with a new feature that will require users to enter an extra pin code when using non-familiar devices.
Cody Brown / Medium:
The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down  —  It's been five months since the New York Times dropped their mammoth digital story “Snow Fall,” and some people still talk about it as if it came out last week.  At a conference recently, the editor-in-chief of the Times said that “Snow Fall” has become a verb inside the newsroom.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement
Discussion: Plagiarism Today
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Time.com Is on a Hiring Spree  —  Here's a story you might not expect to come out of Time Inc.: Time.com is on a hiring binge.  Two months after several higher-ups left in a round of cost-cutting, the site is hiring some 30 staffers, roughly a 50 percent increase, in preparation for a big relaunch in early fall.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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Erik Maza / WWD:   Edward Felsenthal Helming Relaunch of Time.com
Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Objectivity and the decades-long shift from “just the facts” to “what does it mean?”  —  If I had only one short sentence to describe it, I'd say that journalism is factual reports of current events.  At least, that's what I used to say, and I think it's what most people imagine journalism is.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
How Anthony Weiner Managed To Screw The NYC Tabloids  —  Anthony Weiner's announcement of his long-rumored mayoral campaign sparked a media frenzy, but he managed to avoid seeing his face plastered on the front pages of the two tabloid newspapers that relentlessly lampooned him during …
Ryan Gallagher / Slate:
Journalists Find Massive Data Security Lapse, Get Threats Instead of Thanks  —  A “thank you” might be in order if you find a massive leak of a company's sensitive customer records on the Internet and raise alarm so the problem can be fixed.  But that's not how it always goes down …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ that offers personalized content  —  The BBC has developed an experimental piece of hardware called the Perceptive Radio, that adjusts the content it plays based on a wide range of circumstances, such as location, time, a user's proximity …
Discussion: Engadget
Eric Allen Been / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments  —  “We're used to treating information as ‘free,’” writes Jaron Lanier in his latest book Who Owns the Future?, “but the price we pay for the illusion of ‘free’ is only workable so long as most of the overall economy isn't about information.”
Discussion: PandoDaily
Gautham Nagesh / Roll Call:
Will Rising Cable Bills Prompt Congress to Tune In?  —  When Sen. John McCain recently introduced legislation to reshape how consumers watch cable television, he knew he was picking a fight with some of the most influential companies in town.  —  “Today, we're putting up a stop sign,” …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Baltimore police reporter Dick Irwin dies  —  Former Baltimore Sun police reporter Dick Irwin died Wednesday.  He was 76 and had complications from diabetes.  —  Irwin retired in 2010.  Peter Hermann, now a reporter at The Washington Post, marked the occasion with a piece …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
 
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John Murrell / AllThingsD:
Wikimedia Starts Hunt for New Executive Director
Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones:
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Mark Pimentel / TVSpy:
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tribune Confirms Former Yahoo Exec Shashi Seth Will Lead Its Newly-Formed Digital Ventures Unit
Discussion: AllThingsD
Jason Deans / Guardian:
BBC Newsnight journalists win award for spiked Jimmy Savile investigation
Discussion: Digital Spy and pressgazette.co.uk
Politico:
Jay Carney press briefing blues
Discussion: The Fix
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?
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Bloomberg:
Cable Companies Chafe as Low-Rated Channels Change Names
Kate Holton / Reuters:
Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. eBook pricing case
Discussion: paidContent and The Next Web
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC may charge Sky for content as retransmission fee row escalates
Discussion: Digital Spy and broadcastnow.co.uk
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
BuzzFeed business news wants to be scoops
Ryan Graff / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Former Facebook ME Dan Fletcher: 'It's a Great Time to Launch a New Publication'
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad
Discussion: AdPulp, eMedia Vitals and FishbowlNY
 

 
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Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI21 Labs launches Jamba, an AI model that integrates two architectures: transformer and Mamba, which is based on the Structured State Space model

 
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