Mediagazer: Sprint Ends Talks About Sale to Dish Network, Supports Softbank Bid (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

10:50 AM ET, June 11, 2013

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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 …

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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 …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Guardian US Eligible To Enter Pulitzer Competition — The Guardian has received well-deserved praise for its reporting on the NSA and surveillance, which has also led to ample coverage of The Guardian itself and journalist Glenn Greenwald. — On Sunday, HuffPost wrote how The Guardian's US operation …

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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 …

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New York Times:

Snowden, Facing Charges, Leaves Hong Kong Hotel — WASHINGTON — As Justice Department officials began the process Monday to charge Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician, with disclosing classified information, he checked out of a hotel in Hong Kong where he had been holed …

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Adam Taylor / Business Insider:
Booz Allen Has Fired Edward Snowden And Says His Salary Was Only $122,000

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CNN:
NSA leak journalist says more revelations on their way

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Russia Would Weigh Snowden Asylum Bid

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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 …

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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 …

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Majority of Media and Entertainment Revenue Will Come From Digital by 2015, Study Finds — Nearly half of revenue of 550 leading media and entertainment companies comes from digital sales — For traditional media companies fighting to stay on top in the internet age it may no longer …

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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 …

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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 …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Parody site ‘Kochifies’ L.A. Times stories — “Kochify the News” is part of a campaign by a group called Forecast the Facts to discourage Tribune Co. from selling its newspapers to the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch, who are reportedly considering their purchase.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Google: video ads for news tripled last year, 2 in 5 bought ads for first time — Doubleclick, an ad service owned by Google, published new findings that suggest the online video ad market is rapidly becoming bigger and more diverse. — Publishers are pumping more videos onto their sites …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Day 5 of the Apple ebooks trial: Publishing execs testify; Rupert Murdoch's role — At the Apple ebook trial on Monday, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray and Macmillan CEO John Sargent offered testimony as witnesses for the government. Emails showed that News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch expressed the desire to “screw Amazon.”

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