Mediagazer: Is the future of mobile video all about apps? These two apps don't think so (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

8:00 PM ET, June 7, 2013

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Guardian making big splash in US with scoops — You are here — Home » Barack Obama » Guardian making big splash in US with scoops — LONDON (AP) — There's a new kid on the block when it comes to breaking big time stories about possible U.S. government abuses …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Began PRISM Story Three Weeks Ago, Heard Guardian's ‘Footsteps’ — NEW YORK — The Washington Post revealed on Thursday the existence of a secret National Security Agency program code-named PRISM, which reportedly allows the U.S. government to tap directly into the servers …

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation — No healthy democracy can endure when the most consequential acts of those in power remain secret and unaccountable — We followed Wednesday's story about the NSA's bulk telephone record-gathering with one yesterday …

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New York Times:

Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate — After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors.

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Triangulating on Truth - The Totalitarian State — The Guardian breaks a big story yesterday - a court document authorizing the FBI and NSA to secretly collect customer phone records. All of them, for all Verizon customers. — Then today the Washington Post breaks an even bigger story …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The NSA surveillance story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is so important

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Daniel Engber / Slate:

Is There Plagiarism in Jonah Lehrer's New Book Proposal? — Yesterday, I reported that disgraced science journalist Jonah Lehrer had sold his new book on the power of love to Simon & Schuster. In a follow-up story last night, the New York Times quoted the book's new editor, Ben Loehnen …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Signs Sony Up for iRadio, Now Has All Three Major Music Labels on Board — Sony Music has signed on to Apple's forthcoming iRadio service, according to a person familiar with negotiations between the two companies. — The deal means that Apple now has agreements with all three major music labels.

Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] New York Post cuts 13 full-time positions — UPDATE: Capital New York has names and more details about the layoffs. — From: Col Allan — To: Newsroom — Date: 6/7/2013 — Subject: Announcement to newsroom staff — To all staff: — As we continue to strengthen …

Discussion: Capital New York and The New York Observer

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Was Change in Obama Editorial a ‘Softening’ of The Times's Position? — The Times's editorial about President Obama's surveillance state was scathing. Some called it a “vivisection.” But a few hours after “President Obama's Dragnet” went online Thursday afternoon, one particularly notable sentence had been changed.

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Jeff Elder / San Francisco Chronicle:

Mary's Meeker's misinformation has influence — The average smartphone user looks at his or her phone 150 times a day - did you see that headline last week? It seemed to be everywhere after a hugely influential investment guru presented it onstage at a major tech conference.

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Associated Press:

Italian Journalist Missing in Syria Contacts Wife — Italy's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that a war reporter for the Turin daily La Stampa has been in touch with his family for the first time since disappearing in Syria in April. — La Stampa's editor-in-chief Mario Calabrese broke …

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John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards — automagically — Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically created a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Or the graphic novel version of your text-based anything. — Amazon Studios released …

Discussion: The Next Web, AppNewser, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Variety

Committee to Protect Journalists:

For Turkish media, Taksim story reveals flaws, threats — The coverage of the Taksim Square protests will not be remembered as a moment of glory for a number of Turkish mainstream media. While demonstrators were being tear-gassed and beaten by police a week ago, CNN Türk was airing …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Is the future of mobile video all about apps? These two apps don't think so — Mobile video is growing quickly, and with that also comes an explosion of apps from publishers who want their slice of the pie. But do consumers really want to switch back and forth between dozens of apps to watch their favorite videos?

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

Magazines Find Success Selling iPad Ads — Most magazines witnessed a slight decline in print ad sales in the first quarter of the year, with a few exceptions in the food, beauty and fashion categories. But while print sales were lackluster, one area did see a nice uptick in growth: sales of ads on iPad editions.