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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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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 Ambiner has a lot more about the content of the classified archive, but there's another fascinating aspect to the story …
New York Times:
The War Logs: Reaction to Disclosure of Military Documents on Afghan War — The At War blog will be providing coverage of the reaction to the release of an archive of classified military documents described below that paints a grim portrait of the war in Afghanistan.
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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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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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Condé Nast Is Changing Its Blueprint
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 …
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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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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” …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Understanding the Digital Natives — They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don't trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better …
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
British Tabloid Mogul Buys Channel Five — PARIS — Richard Desmond, the British tabloid newspaper and magazine publisher, has expanded his growing media business by agreeing to buy the British television channel Five from RTL, the broadcasting company controlled by Bertelsmann of Germany.
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
5 Questions With...Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback — Ready for this week's Five Questions With..? Boy, I hope so, because you're reading it now. Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback's been slaving away in the digital space for over 20 years, with a resume that includes stuff like Lab Director at PC Week and Editor-In-Chief of PC Magazine.
Irene Lacher / Los Angeles Times:
The Sunday Conversation: Dean Zanuck — The name still holds sway in Hollywood, but the 37-year-old heir to the clan's film-producing legacy went on his own to make the quirky “Get Low.” — “Get Low” producer Dean Zanuck, the son of Richard and grandson of Darryl, in Beverly Hills.