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4:10 PM ET, June 18, 2013

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Isaac Chotiner / New Republic:
“What Part of ‘Politico’ Do You Not Understand?”  —  A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation  —  The dominant mode of Washington journalism tends to both reflect and entrench the values of its era.  The eminent writers and editors of the immediate postwar age …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Nate Silver: Politico Co-Founders Lack ‘Curiosity For The World Outside Of The Bubble’  —  Nate Silver has some thoughts about Politico.  Plenty of them.  —  In an email sent Tuesday to TPM (posted below), Silver — who nailed the 2012 presidential election by correctly forecasting the outcome …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model  —  A photographer says BuzzFeed should pay copyright damages not only for an unauthorized photo that appeared on its site — but for the dozens of other sites on which the photo appeared.  —  An Idaho photographer, Kai Eiselein …
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment  —  Google is preparing to ask the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.
Discussion: The Next Web and ZDNet
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
British Defense Officials Send Out Media Notice To Censor Further Leaks From Edward Snowden
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Angelina Jolie Hacking Scandal: Stunt Double Says News Corp. Tampered With Her Phone  —  Eunice Huthart alleges her voicemail was intercepted by British newspaper News of the World  —  The phone-hacking scandal that's plagued News Corp. over the last few years has spread to bizarre new territory …
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@bbcbreaking:   First civil phone #hacking claim in US is issued against News Corporation and News International, by former stunt double for Angelina Jolie
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal  —  According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The NSA story isn't “journalistic malfeasance” — it's a story that is evolving in real time  —  Some critics of the recent NSA surveillance stories by the Guardian and Washington Post say the reports are filled with so many errors that they amount to “journalistic malfeasance.”  But is this really the case?
Discussion: Medium
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
All journalism is advocacy (or it isn't)  —  Jay Rosen wrote …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Study: Facebook third most popular news source in Arab world  —  Broadcasters Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya named top outlets for accessing news across the region, followed by Facebook  —  Copyright: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr.  Some rights reserved  —  Facebook is the third most popular outlet …
Discussion: Yahoo! News
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Shibley Telhami / Salon:   Al Jazeera: The most-feared news network
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gallup: Only 23% of Americans trust newspapers, TV news  —  The bad news: Just 23 percent of Americans told Gallup they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers, the same percentage who said they trust TV news.  The good news: Both are still more popular than big business, organized labor, HMOs and Congress.
Discussion: Gallup and 24/7 Wall St.
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Tumblr's Media Director Quits  —  Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers."  Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition) later, and another early employee is gone.  That's two in only a few weeks.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Future of 3-D TV Murky as ESPN Ends Channel  —  A few years ago, 3-D was hailed as the next big thing in television, the logical successor to high definition.  But viewers in the United States did not buy the hype, and now the eye-popping format is seen as an expensive flop.
Chris Ariens / FishbowlLA:
FishbowlLA Going on Hiatus  —  Mediabistro's FishbowlLA is taking five.  In the meantime, FBLA co-editor Richard Horgan has moved over to FishbowlNY to cover the Hollywood trades, awards season and a broad range of national media stories.  —  Launched in 2005, the site has seen its fair share …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and 10,000 Words
Erik Wemple:
Sharyl Attkisson: ‘I think I know’ source of computer breaches  —  CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appears to be launching a media tour over her hacked computers.  Yesterday she appeared on “CBS This Morning” with revelations that her computers would strangely turn on and off in the night …
Discussion: Mediaite
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo  —  Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website.  We'll always have Cyprus.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
 
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James Henderson / Techday:
Fairfax Magazines to close NZ tech titles
Discussion: PC World and TVNZ
AJ Marechal / Variety:
ABC Exec Quinn Taylor to Oversee Longform Programming at NBC
David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
Bulk of Trib Co's revenue comes from newspapers, profits from broadcasting
Discussion: Poynter. and Los Angeles Times
Steven Musil / CNET:
Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire to prevent $6B takeover bid