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4 Minute Roundup: TechCrunch’s Twitter Docs; YouTube Profits?

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the controversy surrounding tech blog TechCrunch posting internal documents from Twitter that were obtained from a hacker stealing them. Some people defend TechCrunch as running newsworthy documents, while others think they are harming Twitter too much. I also look at possible profits coming from video giant YouTube and ask Just One Question to the SPJ’s Peter Sussman about the ethics surrounding posting stolen documents.

Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

SPJ’s Code of Ethics

TechCrunch Ethics And The Twitter Leaks at Silicon Beat

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot! at AllThingsD

Why So Much Hand-Wringing Over TechCrunch’s Decision to Publish ‘Hacked’ Twitter Documents? at Valleywag

Yes, It’s Stealing — By Any Name at MediaPost

Twitter’s Security Debacle, and the Publishing of Stolen Documents by Dan Gillmor

The Ev-Files spoof videogame

Google moves to show YouTube has ‘a very credible business model’ at ZDNet

Sorry, YouTube Bears, You Were Wrong at Silicon Alley Insider

YouTube Is Doomed at Silicon Alley Insider

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was “How much would you pay for access to NYTimes.com?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what situation you would post stolen documents to your site or blog.

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • What's the RSS feed? Hasn't updated since May; thought you weren't doing them anymore until I saw the tweet.

  • Guy,
    Not sure why it's not being fed into the RSS feed but will find out what's up. That's not good...
    Best,
    Mark

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