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2:50 PM 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  —  Overview  —  A majority of Americans - 56% - say the National Security Agency's (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Erik Wemple:
Did Snowden really earn a $200,000 salary?  —  One poignant feature of the Edward Snowden saga is sacrifice.  Here's a 29-year-old guy living in Hawaii with his girlfriend, and he gives it all up as he leaks national security information to the Guardian and to The Post.  —  And how much was he earning?
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Russia Would Weigh Snowden Asylum Bid
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Discussion: ZDNet and Los Angeles Times
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 …
Discussion: Deadline.com
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC accused of misleading parliament over ‘catastrophic’ digital media project
Discussion: Variety and Hollywood Reporter
Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
Exclusive: Al Jazeera America to Launch Week of Aug. 24  —  Network sets primetime schedule with Velshi's ‘Real Money,’ ‘America Tonight,’ nightly newsmag  —  Washington - Al Jazeera America has set a launch date.  The channel that bought out Current TV will flip the switch the week of Aug. 24 …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVNewser
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Al Jazeera America Interviews Finalists For President Role
Discussion: TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News
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 …
Discussion: Poynter and TVNewser
Mark Milian / Bloomberg:
The Rest of the World Will Have to Wait for Apple's iTunes Radio  —  Apple Introduces ITunes Radio at Conference  —  ITunes Radio, the streaming-music service Apple announced yesterday at the company's developers conference in San Francisco, is set to hit the digital airwaves this fall.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Apple introduces iTunes Radio, in bid for streaming market
Discussion: Guardian and The Verge
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 …
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: GigaOM, Forbes and Reuters
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Google's Not-So-Evil Plan To Lower Your Cable Bill  —  One of the more intriguing mysteries in the media/technology world is why Google is building out broadband fiber data networks in a handful of American cities.  Google says it's just another attempt to create a profitable new business …
 
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: Engadget and The Digital Reader
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