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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 — The White House condemned Sunday night's leak of more than 90,000 secret military records covering the Afghanistan War by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts secret documents online. — National Security Adviser Jim Jones, in a statement …
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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.
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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Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
A Journalist Who Dabbled in Fiction — On June 25, the Associated Press Sports Editors did a “curious thing,” in the eyes of Dave Kindred, a former sports columnist. — That night, the group gave Mitch Albom, the longtime columnist for The Detroit Free Press (and author of books like …
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Tallying Up Viewers — 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 of how Americans consume media on a range of devices …
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Meebo Toolbar Gaining Popularity With Publishers — When Meebo launched five years ago, the plan was to create a Web destination where users could aggregate all of their instant messaging communications in one place. — But over the past year, the company has rolled out an increasingly popular toolbar …
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.
Financial Times:
Liz Murdoch takes a Shine to independence — Media mogul daughter's Shine Productions has hit the $1bn mark with operating profits expected to be around £50m next year