Mediagazer: Now websites can send push notifications — not just apps (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

9:00 PM ET, June 10, 2013

Top News:

A New Kind of Leaker for an Internet Age — What does a leaker look like? Sometimes, people who reveal secrets remain in the shadows, and the public is left to guess at their motivations, agendas and states of mind. — Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old man behind the recent revelations …

Discussion: Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Politico, Business Insider, FishbowlDC, Post Politics and Lawfare

Erik Wemple:

Edward Snowden: ‘Leaker,’ ‘source’ or ‘whistleblower’? — The Guardian has little hesitation in categorizing Edward Snowden. In the headline to its story yesterday revealing him as the source of the recent bombshells about the National Security Agency, it calls him “the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations.”

Discussion: The Huffington Post, paidContent and Mashable

Evan Osnos / The New Yorker:
Can Edward Snowden Stay in Hong Kong?

Discussion: Guardian, CNN, China Real Time Report, The New Yorker Blog, Yahoo! News, Wired, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Softpedia News and The Raw Story

The New Liberty:
PRISM: A Technical Analysis

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Daniel Ellsberg / Guardian:
Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America

Barton Gellman / The Washington Post:
Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Nonprofit news sites are growing, but the search for a reliable business model continues — Even as the number of nonprofit news outlets continues to grow, many organizations are still struggling to find a model for long-term success. — A new study from the Pew Research Center found …

Discussion: Mediashift, Journalism.org, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, paidContent, Knight Digital Media Center and Associated Press

Associated Press:
Pew study shows nonprofit news sites need help in business more than in journalism

Discussion: Adweek

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

FP's Managing Editor Flew the Coop — Indeed, lots of changes at Foreign Policy Magazine as of late. Another one we just learned of is Managing Editor Blake Hounshell, who announced Friday that he was leaving. This comes on the heels of Susan Glasser's departure as Editor-in-Chief …

Discussion: @acarvin, @blakehounshell, @lheron and FishbowlNY

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Foreign Policy Makes Big Announcements

Discussion: Wired

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Now websites can send push notifications — not just apps — In my writeup earlier of the elements of today's Apple announcements of interest to news app developers, I mentioned that there was a reference on Apple's site to the new ability of websites to send push notifications — websites, not just apps.

Discussion: @mg, Quartz, ReadWrite and The Verge

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

BuzzFeed hires Guardian bureau chief in latest push for influence — BuzzFeed is in the process of a rapid-fire evolution from banal list site to serious news player. Its hiring of a senior Guardian journalist also reflects its enviable financial position.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Fishbowl NY, @lheron and Taylor Marsh

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

AP Editor: Do Not Describe Snowden A ‘Whistleblower’ — The Guardian has labeled Edward Snowden a whistleblower after the NSA contractor revealed himself Sunday as the source for several recent surveillance scoops. — But some news organization have been less quick to describe Snowden as a …

Discussion: Guardian and Firedoglake

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Murdoch's News Corp mulls FCPA deal with US Justice Department — With News Corp set to split off its newspaper business, a settlement over bribery allegations in the UK may be imminent — In private conversations, executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are acknowledging ongoing discussions …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Why The Global Mail has focused in on data and investigations — The not-for-profit investigative outlet launched data visualisation Behind the Wire today, as part of a new focus on data and ‘more editorially ambitious’ stories — Copyright: By Mark Hunter/ toolstop on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Discussion: Guardian

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

UK magazine The Spectator finally launches its 180-year online archive — More than a year after the initial announcement, UK conservative-leaning magazine The Spectator has finally launched its new online archive, containing every article from the magazine's history. For the record, that's almost two hundred years.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

ProPublica at five: How the nonprofit collaborates, builds apps, and measures impact — ProPublica has become a significant enough part of the journalism firmament that it's hard to think of it as a startup. — But five years ago today, when the investigative journalism site first began publishing …

Jim Romenesko:

More than 50 have applied for The Awl editor-in-chief job — How many people have applied for The Awl's editor-in-chief job, which Andrew Beaujon said “sounds like it may be one of the best jobs in journalism.” The Awl co-founder Choire Sicha tells Romenesko readers: Looks like we've received somewhere north of 50 inquiries so far.

Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Prominent Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer to take over ‘Times’ blog India Ink — As The New York Times evaluates its blogs to determine which ones to keep when it implements its big web reboot later this year, there's at least one site that Capital has learned won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

Discussion: @rafat

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

No tweets, no typing: Apple ebook trial reflects ongoing unease with electronics in US courtrooms — Public news events of all types are now reported in real time through tools like Twitter and live blogs. Is it time for court proceedings to be treated the same way?