Mediagazer: Spy agency seeks criminal probe into leaks (Reuters)

10:30 AM ET, June 9, 2013

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Ed Bott / ZDNet:

The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism — Summary: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying.

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Elizabeth Titus / Politico:

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper condemns ‘rush to publish’ — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper criticized the news media Saturday for what he called a “rush to publish” information based on “reckless” leaks about the government surveillance tool PRISM.

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Reuters:

Spy agency seeks criminal probe into leaks — (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence agency requested a criminal probe on Saturday into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, a spokesman for the intelligence chief's office said.

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Gregory Katz / Associated Press:

Guardian making big splash in US with scoops — LONDON (AP) - Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. - hiring dozens of employees in the last two years — hadn't produced much of a splash in terms of scoops. In the last three days that has changed.

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Reuters:

Intel offers to pay up for Internet TV programming deals — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional cable rates, people familiar with the talks said.

Discussion: Electronista, VentureBeat, @pkafka, The Verge, Gizmodo and Variety

Tom Rhodes / Committee to Protect Journalists:

Siege over, but damage to Ugandan press may last — Journalists are back to work at Uganda's leading privately owned daily, The Monitor, after a 10-day siege of their newsroom by police. But that does not mean it is business as usual for the nation's press.

Kevin Eck / TVSpy:

WDRB Explains Why It Thinks ‘Breaking News’ is Broken — This week's post about Louisville FOX affiliate WDRB's decision to curtail its use of the term “Breaking News” collected a lot of facebook likes and stirred up a lot of discussion. — Monday, the station began airing a promo saying …

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

You Won't Finish This Article — Why people online don't read to the end. — She's already stopped reading — I'm going to keep this brief, because you're not going to stick around for long. I've already lost a bunch of you. For every 161 people who landed on this page, about 61 of you—38 percent—are already gone.

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Politico:

Roger Ailes unplugged — Roger Ailes doesn't think homosexuals are out to get him. He frequently jokes about his weight. He doesn't believe Rupert Murdoch calls him “cuckoo,” but brags that his boss does call him “paranoid” - and he's wealthier for it. If Fox News headquarters is under attack …

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Gabriel Kahn / Mediashift:

Is Media Becoming Device Dependent? — Not long ago, I heard Hearst Corp. Magazine Chief Executive David Carey relay a remarkable development: Since the debut of the iPad Mini, paid electronic subscriptions for Hearst magazines had skyrocketed. When he said this in February …

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Why the Guardian has ‘given bloggers the keys’ to its website — The Guardian's new environment blog network brings writers from around the world to add expert commentary alongside news reporting — Copyright: By DonkeyHotey on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

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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?