Mediagazer: How Upworthy Used Emotional Data To Become The Fastest Growing Media Site of All Time (Anya Kamenetz/Fast Company)

8:40 AM ET, June 11, 2013

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Irin Carmon / Salon:

How we broke the NSA story — Exclusive: Laura Poitras tells Salon about getting contacted by Edward Snowden, and reveals more footage is coming — Shortly after Salon's biographical sketch on Laura Poitras went live, the award-winning documentary filmmaker agreed to a phone interview …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Business Insider, Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Computerworld, paidContent, Pressing Issues and Boing Boing

Washington Post:

Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA — Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information …

Discussion: National Review, NBC Universal and The New Yorker Blog

Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:

Russia Would Weigh Snowden Asylum Bid — MOSCOW—Russia would consider a request for asylum from Edward Snowden, the National Security Administration contractor who has admitted leaking details of top-secret government surveillance programs, the Kremlin's chief spokesman said Tuesday.

Discussion: New York Times

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic — Public Says Investigate Terrorism, Even If It Intrudes on Privacy — OVERVIEW — A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans …

Discussion: Infowars, Softpedia News, Taking Note, Gizmodo and The Verge

Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Inside the ‘Q Group,’ the Directorate Hunting Down Edward Snowden

Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Mail, New York Times, The Lede, CNET, Infowars, CNN, Softpedia News, Hit & Run and The Huffington Post

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC accused of misleading parliament over ‘catastrophic’ digital media project — MPs say evidence given by senior management in 2011 'just wasn't true' as £98.4m cost of ‘embarrassing’ failure is revealed — The BBC has been accused by MPs of misleading parliament over its …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Ex-BBC chief recalled to face Commons questions over earlier DMI evidence — Mark Thompson told public accounts committee in 2011 that parts of content management system were ‘already working’ — Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general, has been recalled to parliament over evidence …

Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:

How Upworthy Used Emotional Data To Become The Fastest Growing Media Site of All Time — If it makes an editor cry, it's Upworthy. — In a presentation on Thursday at the Personal Democracy Forum, a New York City gathering on the intersection of tech and politics, Upworthy editorial …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

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, The Verge and Big News Network.com

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Apple introduces iTunes Radio, in bid for streaming market — Apple came out swinging Monday, using its annual developers' conference to defend its position in the digital music space with a new streaming service aimed at rivals such as Spotify, Pandora and Google.

Discussion: Guardian and The Verge

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Conservatives as Defenders of the Media — A Justice Department inquiry of a Fox News reporter has given the press an unlikely ally in right-leaning radio and television hosts, who have taken to defending the First Amendment with a fire-and-brimstone zeal.

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Sprint Ends Talks About Sale to Dish Network, Supports Softbank Bid — Charlie Ergen's satellite TV giant, which has been looking to become a wireless player, had made an unsolicited $25.5 billion takeover proposal in April. — Wireless giant Sprint Nextel said late Monday night …

Discussion: Reuters

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