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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history — From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists — Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ‘They show the true nature of this war’
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New York Times:
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish — The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan …
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too — The website WikiLeaks has published more than 90,000 leaked U.S. military records about the war in Afghanistan. Marc Ambinder has a lot more about the content of the classified archive, but there's another fascinating aspect to the story …
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
NYT defends publishing leaked military records
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Arianna's Answer — The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism. But it's going to be a very difficult future. — Arianna Huffington at her home in July. — If you had to declare a winner among Internet media companies today, the victor easily would be Arianna Huffington.
BBC News:
A new journalism on the horizon — The delivery of news is rapidly changing — As people find new ways to access news in a post-print world, so the demands on those that deliver it is changing, says Andrew Marr, and this new media age could bring with it a better, more rigorous kind of journalism.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Media, Ad Industries to Study How Viewers Consume Media — Industry Group to Study How a Mobile Nation Uses Media — Some of the nation's biggest media companies and advertisers, seeking to develop new ways of measuring audiences, could make Apple Inc.'s iPhone the vehicle for a study …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Advertising is next — Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors — that is, to say, on brand advertising. So it is astonishing to hear its CEO, Chuck Townsend, essentially toss the company's business model out the window of the Death Star in what The Times frames as …
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Chris Lefkow / Agence France Presse:
Fees for online news yet to succeed — Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference in Aspen, Colorado, during which they grappled with — and left unresolved — the question of whether readers will pay for news online. — Firmly in the paid camp in the “paid vs. free” …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In Hollywood, Everybody's a Digital Revolutionary — THE boom in digital entertainment — interrupted by the recession and the credit freeze — has returned to Hollywood. Almost daily, it seems, another start-up pops up to proclaim how it will revolutionize movies or television.
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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
BBC website ‘needs clearer red lines’ — Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt praises corporation but also raises several concerns in Andrew Marr interview — The BBC needs “clearer red lines” around its website to allow competitors that depend on private revenue to survive, the government warned today.
Stefanie Cohen / New York Post:
Cashin' in on video — They're stars of the tiny screen — YouTube legends living unassumingly next door. — Almost 450,000 viewers tune in to 20-year-old Tessa Violet, a k a MeekaKitty, as she rants about infomercials, video games and whatever else pops in her mind while she hangs out in her mom's apartment.
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Sumner Redstone's strange world: “He thinks he's Paul Newman” — EXCLUSIVE: THR learns his raunchy girl-band is a go at MTV as new details emerge — MTV has confirmed to THR that a reality show about an aspiring raunchy girl band favored by the boss, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone …
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:
At Tribune Co., Leaving Behind Bankruptcy and Old Ways — Tribune Co. Chief Executive Randy Michaels wants to remake the 163-year-old media company. But first he has to steer it out of bankruptcy. — Mr. Michaels, a veteran radio executive, was hired by investor Sam Zell to run Tribune's Internet …
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