Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article about the 2010 search warrant on a government adviser named Jin-Woo Kim. Kim allegedly leaked sensitive information to a Fox News reporter named James Rosen, and Kim was eventually indicted. But unlike last week's story of the DOJ subpoenaing Associated Press phone records, this case has the Justice Department not only tracking a journalist's movements, but requesting a warrant to seize two days worth of his emails. In the warrant application, the DOJ says there is probable cause to charge Rosen "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator of Mr. Kim."

Fox’s Executive Vice President of News Michael Clemente released a statement to the press today, which read:

We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.

We're going to be following this story as it develops this week. What do you think of this about it?

In putting together last week's special show on the uncertain future of media business models, a lot of great tape ended up on the cutting room floor. Here's one such interview with Janko Roettgers, staff writer for the GigaOM network and author of Cut the Cord: All You Need to Know to Drop Cable. Brooke asks this pioneer cord cutter what content, if any, he's willing to pay for. 

At-home 3D printing has gotten cheaper, technically simpler and has garnered a ton of media coverage. It can be hard though, to get your head around what exactly 3D printing something actually looks like. Well, here's OTM's first swing at original video production - a look at a 3D printer in action and an idea of how easy they've become to use. How easy is it? Easy enough for a determined 11-year-old.  Nathan Fitch shot and edited the film. OTM's Chris Neary produced it.

On The Media- 3D Printing from nathan fitch on Vimeo.

Nathan Fitch is a New York City based photographer and visual storyteller.

A few weeks ago we talked to Dr. Robert Nussbaum, a geneticist at the University of California San Francisco. Nussbaum was frustrated by the monopoly that one company, Myriad, had over the interpretations of abnormalities in two genes  - BRCA1 and BRCA2 – those abnormalities are predictors of breast and ovarian cancer. Those two genes are also patented by Myriad and the legality of that patenting is currently before the Supreme Court. But Nussbaum’s issue, as a geneticist and a genetic counselor, wasn’t the ownership of genes, it’s the ownership of years and years of test results that Myriad has privatized. Keeping that information from the public means that his patients, usually women, are denied second-opinions and alternative interpretations of genetic information that for many of them has enormous stakes.

Well today one of those women came forward to tell what she’d done when confronted with her BRCA1 and 2 test results – Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times that she’s gotten a preventive double mastectomy because her BRCA1 and 2 tests indicate that she has a high likelihood of developing breast cancer. Nussbaum told us that this was a stark, but not uncommon decision made by his patients who confront few other choices when they get back alarming Myriad test results. Unfortunately it was a part of the story that got edited out of the interview we broadcast. Since Jolie has put it back in the news it might be worth re-listening to our interview with Nussbaum about the consequences of locking away public health information.

Over the past year Brooke Gladstone has become a committed Brooklyn Nets fan. Last week the Nets fired their head coach P.J. Carlesimo. That's what you call serendipity people. Brooke should, nay, must, be the next coach of the Nets. She wants it, the OTM blog wants it, and after this campaign gets going the people of Brooklyn will want it.

On Sunday, Defense Distributed, the Texas based outfit that's been trying to create a blueprint for a gun that anyone can download and make at home, published a video showing their pistol in action. It seems like they've achieved their goal. A homemade pistol, made mostly out of plastic, that anyone with a 3D printer can make. 

A solution! (Sort of.)

On our May 3rd show we talked to Mark Caramanica  of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, about the Supreme Court’s recent decision concerning FOIA requests. Caramanica told us that as a result of the high court’s decision, if you live outside of a state like Virginia, that limits public records requests to state residents, you will have to find a “straw man” to file on your behalf. Michael Morisy, co-founder of MuckRock, is one of those straw men. MuckRock has filed some 2000 FOIA requests for citizens, academics and journalists in all 50 states. Brooke talks to Michael Morisy, who says access to information has obsessed him since he was reporter on his college paper.

We've been talking about how to improve Twitter as a breaking news tool both on our show and with you guys, our listeners. We also heard from The Guardian's Heidi Moore and NPR's Andy Carvin. Their thoughts after the jump. 

In July of 2010, a catastrophic oil spill took place in Marshall, Michigan, flooding a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo river. At the time, the media paid it little attention, distracted perhaps by the more dramatic Deepwater Horizon oil disaster that was just winding down in the Gulf of Mexico.

As the casualty count in the Bangladeshi textile factory collapse rises by the day (on Tuesday morning it stands at 382), it’s being described as the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry. That’s a record with a bloody history, some of it American.

Twitter: we all love it, but during recent breaking news stories, it's been an amplifier for rumors. Lots of people have weighed in on how to make it better -- Mat Honan at Wired, our own Brooke Gladstone talking to NPR's Andy Carvin, and OTM's PJ Vogt. Now we're hoping to hear from you guys. Please weigh in with your suggestions for how you'd change Twitter to make it easier to sort misinformation during breaking news stories. You can add them in the comments or tweet at us @onthemedia with hashtag #fixtwitter. 

How is it possible to convict someone of hacking without them ever, you know, hacking? This episode of On The Media explains.

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On Sunday, Mohamed Ibrahim Rage, a Somali radio news reporter, was shot and killed at his home in Mogadishu. He's the fifth journalist to be killed in Somalia this year. Last year 18 media workers were killed, many in targeted killings. Reporters Without Borders calls it one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.

A few weeks ago we talked to NPR's East Africa correspondent Gregory Warner about the unintended consequences of Somalia's deadly climate for journalists, as experienced journalists flee or are killed more and more children are rushing in to fill the void ...

Tonight, Brooke will be sitting down with grammy award-winning pop star Cyndi Lauper to talk about her Queens upbringing, her colorful career and her new venture into musical theater, Kinky Boots.

Listeners: Tell what you're watching, who you're following on Twitter, what you're reading online -- and how you feel about it all.

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This week has seen an incredible volume of high-profile news stories. And even in the case of the explosion in the West, Texas fertilizer plant, and a massive earthquake in Iran, the bombing at the Boston Marathon seems to be gobbling up most of the airtime. What stories do you feel are getting short shrift this week?

On The Media tackles the perennial question: Why do news organizations so often rush to be first, even if being first means being wrong?