Mediagazer: A High-Tech War on Leaks (Adam Liptak/New York Times)

4:10 AM ET, February 13, 2012

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Washington Post, Recast for a Digital Future — ON a Sunday in early December, Marcus Brauchli, the executive editor of The Washington Post, summoned some of the newspaper's most celebrated journalists to a lunch at his home, a red brick arts-and-crafts style in the suburb of Bethesda, Md.

Discussion: Wannabe Hacks, The Atlantic Online, rjionline.org, Future of Journalism, Gannett Blog, @romenesko and ShortFormBlog

Samantha Murphy / Mashable!:

Twitter Breaks News of Whitney Houston Death 27 Minutes Before Press — Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, reported by a man who tweeted the news out to his 14 followers.

Discussion: The New York Observer, @mathewi, @bahjournalist, @rsarver, The Huffington Post, Mark Edwards Worldwide, BuzzFeed, St. Petersburg Times and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

A High-Tech War on Leaks — BACK in 2006, before the Obama administration made leak prosecutions routine, a panel of three federal appeals court judges in New York struggled to decide whether a prosecutor should be allowed to see the phone records of two New York Times reporters …

Felix Salmon:

Quality vs quantity online — At about the same time that Michael Kinsley's hilarious response to a blog post of mine hit the web, The Atlantic also uploaded to its website Kathleen McAuliffe's excellent story about how parasites shape our behavior. — McAuliffe's 5,873-word feature …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

David Carr / New York Times:

Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn't — I was going to tweet about Roland Martin's suspension from CNN, but I decided to write a column about it instead. It's safer this way. — Let me explain. — Big media companies love when their employees hit Twitter.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules — The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions …

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Interview: Tom Curley, Associated Press chief, on driving news faster — Stepping down after nine years, the AP boss talks battles with Google, getting paid for content, and effects of phone hacking — When he was a cub reporter in the 1960s Tom Curley estimates the news cycle …

Dave Lee / BBC:

Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe — Marchers in London gathered outside British Music House, home to several major rights holders — Thousands of people have taken part in co-ordinated protests across Europe in opposition to a controversial anti-piracy agreement.

Discussion: Reuters, WebProNews, Future of Journalism, TorrentFreak, The Stream, Electronista and Mashable!, more at Techmeme »

Guardian:

Senior Sun journalists arrested in police payments probe — Rupert Murdoch is flying to London after five of tabloid's most senior staff are arrested inongoing inquiry into alleged bribery — The Sun has been plunged into crisis following the arrest of five of its most senior journalists …

Discussion: rbr.com, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, mUmBRELLA, Future of Journalism, The Wrap, Guardian, New York Magazine, @dangillmor, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Jon Slattery, Associated Press, The Independent and Press Gazette

New York Times:

The Piracy Problem: How Broad? — When Fred Wilson, a prominent New York venture capitalist who has backed Twitter and Zynga, wanted to watch the Knicks game last month, he got an unpleasant surprise. Time Warner Cable was not showing the game because of a contract dispute.

Bill Keller:

Piracy Twits — If I didn't value the First Amendment so dearly, I'd be tempted to propose a law keeping irony out of the hands of the clueless. — The other day I wrote a column suggesting a reasoned approach to protecting writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, etc. against online piracy.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, TeleRead and Phlog

David Streitfeld / Bits:

Amazon, Up in Flames — “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever,” George Orwell wrote in “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” In “Animal Farm,” he concluded that revolutions are inevitably betrayed by their leaders. His novel “Burmese Days” …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Gov. Rendell wanted NY Mayor Bloomberg to buy Philly papers — When Ed Rendell was governor of Pennsylvania in 2008, he spent some time traveling around the country with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. At the time, Rendell pitched Bloomberg on buying Philadelphia's daily newspapers …