Mediagazer: Will Rising Cable Bills Prompt Congress to Tune In? (Gautham Nagesh/Roll Call)

7:10 PM ET, May 22, 2013

Top News:

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico, Gretawire, Examiner and CNSNews

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.

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Politico, Politico, TVNewser, The Caucus, The Columbus Dispatch, The Atlantic Online, Los Angeles Times, NewsBusters blogs, The Newspaper Guild, Hit & Run and Media News

Gregory J. Millman / Wall Street Journal:
When the IRS Secretly Obtained My Phone Records

Discussion: Poynter and Talking Biz News

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.

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, paidContent, TechCrunch, @grahaphics, @codybrown, Techdirt, @digidave, The Awl, Business Insider, @djbentley, @mathewi and Boing Boing

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement

Discussion: Plagiarism Today

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.

Discussion: Twitter Blog, NYT Bits, Forbes, CNET, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Betabeat, Bloomberg, Reuters and The Verge

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

Erik Maza / WWD:

Edward Felsenthal Helming Relaunch of Time.com — BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: When Web sites undergo a redesign, editors will inevitably look toward any number of models. Time.com, it seems, is looking at The Daily Beast. — Edward Felsenthal, Tina Brown's former deputy at the Beast …

Anthony De Rosa / Soup:

Stop matching — Matching is an institutional problem deeply rooted within many mainstream newsrooms. To paraphrase myself from this article: Sometimes it's a business strategy: ignore you competition, don't let your readers know they exist, pretend they didn't beat you.

Discussion: @edmundlee, @craigsilverman, @wfrick, @hunterwalk and @jayrosen_nyu

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 …

Politico:

Jay Carney press briefing blues — President Barack Obama brought in press secretary Jay Carney “to lower the temperature” in the briefing room back in 2011, but reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney's demeanor and the veracity of some answers to questions about recent administration scandals.

Discussion: The Fix

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

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Amazon unveils Kindle Worlds publishing platform to help aspiring fan fiction writers sell their work — Amazon announced a new publishing platform today called Kindle Worlds, which will give both established authors and aspiring fan fiction writers the chance to earn royalties based on their work.

Discussion: paidContent, Forbes, Nieman Journalism Lab, Speakeasy, GeekWire, The Verge, Betabeat and The Billfold

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 …

Discussion: Techdirt and Risk & Compliance