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• Head of The A.P. Criticizes Seizure of Phone Records

  Ravi Somaiya @ NYTimes Media - 5 minutes ago

  Gary Pruitt said the Obama administration’s handling of a leak investigation had already diminished journalists’ capacity to report on the government.

• News From the Advertising Industry

  Stuart Elliott @ New York Times - Media Decoder blog - 34 minutes ago

  Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.

• Disney, NBCUniversal and Paramount Plan Bold Studio Expansions

  Michael Cieply @ New York Times - Media & Advertising - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

  Given the more generous subsidies offered in other states and countries, major studios including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Disney all have large-scale, long-term expansion plans.

• 30 Seconds to Mars stratospheric rise on social media

  Chris J Reed @ The Wall Blog - 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

  In the week that it was shown that users only visited the planet Google+ for less than 7 minutes a month it’s interesting to look at how a contemporary rock artist brand goes about using social media in their marketing and the different levels of interest on different platforms.

• Advertising: A Season of Families, Vampires and Aliens

  Stuart Elliott @ New York Times - Media Decoder blog - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

  After a lackluster 2012-13 season, network television is relying on family related comedies and the supernatural to attract viewers.

• The Media Equation: Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future

  David Carr @ NYTimes Media - 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

  A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.

• Otellini’s Striking Confession

  Jean-Louis Gassée @ Monday Note - 5 hours, 34 minutes ago

  We know Intel shunned ARM processors and played virtually no role in the smartphone revolution. But we now learn Steve Jobs asked Intel to build the iPhone microprocessor. Paul Otellini, Intel’s departing CEO, admits he should have followed his gut – and made the smartphone world a very different place.

• Why Google Will Crush Nielsen

  Frédéric Filloux @ Monday Note - 5 hours, 34 minutes ago

  Internet measurement techniques need a complete overhaul. New ways have emerged, potentially displacing older panel-based technologies. This will make it hard for incumbent players to stay in the game.

• Vevo boss Nic Jones: 'We're at the pointy end of labels' activities'

  Jemima Kiss @ MediaGuardian - Television - 7 hours, 31 minutes ago

  What the majors want from the video hub, what he learned from MySpace – and why mobile is more than just phones.

• Open door: The readers' editor on ... why chocolate and peanuts left a sour taste

  Chris Elliott @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - 7 hours, 32 minutes ago

  Triage is the action of sorting by quality, most often associated with dealing with wounded on the battlefield. Hospitals use it as a way of assigning the appropriate priority to patients to ensure effective treatment. On a very busy day in the readers' editor's office it is a very useful practice to adopt when dealing with 120 emails involving complaints and queries, where each person or group expects an immediate response, no matter how serious the issue.