Mediagazer: How Google Transfers Data To NSA (Amir Efrati/Digits)

3:35 AM ET, June 12, 2013

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Christopher Harrison / The Hill:

Why Pandora bought an FM radio station — The internet isn't just the future of radio; it is radio. Today, 70+ million Americans listen to Pandora, accounting for more than 7 percent of all U.S. radio listening. Our Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken …

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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Pandora Buys Terrestrial Radio Station in South Dakota, Aims for Lower ASCAP Royalties — Internet radio giant Pandora is taking an innovative route to lower ASCAP fees: The purchase of a small-market terrestrial radio station. The company announced Tuesday it has purchased KXMZ-FM in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Investors Approve Breakup Plan — After years of being criticized by investors for his love of newspapers, News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch is now a step closer to cleaving off the declining publishing business. — Shareholders voted to approve the breakup plan …

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

News Corp. says no settlement with U.S. Department of Justice — News Corp. said Tuesday that it had not reached a settlement with U.S. officials over a corruption probe. Members of the media surround former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, center, as she gets into a car …

Associated Press:

‘TV Everywhere’ mobile initiative still hasn't gotten there, executives admit — Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts gestured as he spoke during The Cable Show 2013 convention in Washington on Tuesday. — WASHINGTON — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet.

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

The Best (And Worst) Cities for Newspapers — Pittsburgh Tops Highest Readership; Atlanta Takes Honor for Lowest — The percentage of daily print newspaper readers in the U.S. has fallen nearly 20% since 2001, according to research firm Scarborough. But that drop has not been spread evenly …

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Amir Efrati / Digits:

How Google Transfers Data To NSA — How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure “file transfer protocol,” or FTP. And sometimes even by hand. — That detail, which Google disclosed for the first time late Tuesday, contrasts with earlier reports that claimed …

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BuzzFeed:

Obama Schmoozes Reporters At Secret Meeting — The president popped into an off-the-record briefing with reporters Monday. — Image by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP — WASHINGTON — President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with select reporters from some of the nation's largest print …

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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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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic

Washington Post:
Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

‘PBS NewsHour’ Plans Layoffs as It Closes Offices — WASHINGTON — The “PBS NewsHour,” the signature nightly newscast on public television, is planning its first significant round of layoffs in nearly two decades. — Facing a multimillion-dollar shortfall in the program's budget …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

The Wire launches digital archive of all 350 issues — All 250,000 pages of the underground music magazine's history are available to subscribers through the publication's app — Copyright: By ValleeC on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — Underground music magazine The Wire has made its entire …

Dolia Estevez / Forbes:

Mexican Billionaires Slim And Azcarraga Not Concerned With Impact Of New Anti-Monopoly Telecom Law — This week Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a landmark telecommunications bill designed to boost competition in Mexico's phone and television industry.

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Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:

Greece Shutting Down State Broadcaster Net — In a surprise move that angered labor unions and its junior partners, the conservative-led coalition government said the station, Net, would stop broadcasting at midnight Tuesday.

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Tim Sohn / Mediashift:

How Newspapers Can Make Augmented Reality Sexy (and Profitable) — Want to stay current on media and technology from around the web? Get MediaShift's Daily Must Reads in your in-box! — Publishers in the United States have been slow to embrace augmented reality (AR) …

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Bloomberg:

Dish-Sprint Talks Said to Falter in Part Over Breakup Fee — Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) demanded a $3 billion reverse breakup fee from Dish Network Corp. (DISH) during their merger talks, one of a series of disagreements that has kept them from reaching a deal, people familiar with the matter said.

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

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Al Jazeera America Interviews Finalists For President Role — Al Jazeera America is closing in on finding its president. — Last week, Ehab Al Shihabi (pictured left), the executive director of international operations for Al Jazeera and the senior executive in charge of developing Al Jazeera America …

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Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
Exclusive: Al Jazeera America to Launch Week of Aug. 24

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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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