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

7:20 AM ET, June 11, 2013

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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 …

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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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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.

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

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

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

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 …

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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 …

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