Mediagazer: In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

4:50 PM ET, May 22, 2013

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

Dylan Byers / Politico:

DOJ: We haven't ‘compromised’ Sharyl Attkisson's computers — The Dept. of Justice says it has never “compromised” computers belonging to Sharyl Attkisson, the CBS News investigative reporter who on Tuesday said that her personal and work computers were under investigation after intrusions by an unspecified entity.

Discussion: Examiner, The Inquisitr, Examiner, Townhall.com, TVNewser, Washington Post, RedState, The Daily Caller and The Huffington Post

Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Bret Baier: Justice Department targeted James Rosen's parents as well

Discussion: Mediaite, Mediaite and Politico

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: TechCrunch, The Awl, Techdirt, @digidave, Business Insider, @djbentley, @mathewi and Boing Boing

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement — Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times' legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit. — After he answered that request …

Discussion: Plagiarism Today

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, @jayrosen_nyu, @craigsilverman, @wfrick and @hunterwalk

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad — An obscure piece on The New York Times' website about Picasso repurposing his canvases by painting over older, abandoned projects was fascinating, at least insofar as stories about master artists and their recycling habits go.

Discussion: AdPulp, FishbowlLA, eMedia Vitals and FishbowlNY

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.”