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4 Minute Roundup: Legal Implications of Gizmodo iPhone Caper

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition I focus on the brouhaha surrounding Gizmodo obtaining a next-generation prototype of the Apple iPhone. The tech blog paid $5,000 for the prototype, took it apart, and then returned it to Apple. But police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house and took away computers, hard drives and cameras, a move that Gawker Media says was not legal. The case brings up questions of journalistic integrity and might affect how the shield law for bloggers progresses in Congress, according to MediaShift legal correspondent Jeffrey Neuburger.

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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:

This Is Apple’s Next iPhone at Gizmodo

The Tale of Apple’s Next iPhone at Gizmodo

The iPhone Leak Gets Ugly – Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s House, Confiscate Computers at TechCrunch

The Gizmodo Warrant – Searching Journalists in the Terabyte Age at Freedom to Tinker blog

OverREACTing – Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant at EFF

Don’t Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar at Slate

Police poised to expand iPhone prototype probe at CNET

Journalist shield law may not halt iPhone probe at CNET

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about the Gizmodo iPhone story:

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.

View Comments (2)

  • The Gizmodo story caused a blaze in the media when news of a possible iPhone prototype spread like wild fire. Anytime news can excite that's a good thing because it gets people talking and gets them involved. Really like the way your twitter page is organized. The power of HTNL wow

  • The technology development nowadays is brilliant. Once a new things/stuff is introduce, there will a newest stuff afterward, and much problem (perhaps) come to in using the stuff..

    I do have the Iphone several months ago but it starting to broke just after I use it in 2 MONTHS only. I got fedup and get tired with new stuff until now. Just use my ordinary cell phone only.

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