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6:10 PM ET, June 18, 2013

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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.
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Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Yahoo discloses how much government data requests it gets
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’
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 …
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.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
AOL's Patch Limps Toward Profitability  —  After more than five years of reporting on school-board meetings and community bake sales, AOL Inc. (AOL)'s Patch is now at the center of another story: whether the company's bet on local news can be profitable.  —  Patch, with more than 900 sites …
Discussion: Street Fight
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.
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 …
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.
Brett Logiurato / Business Insider:
Fox Business Terminates Contract With Contributor Who Was Paid $50,000 To Boost A Stock  —  Fox Business Network has terminated the contract of contributor Tobin Smith, who was paid $50,000 to tout the stock of Petrosonic Energy, a network spokesperson told Business Insider.
Discussion: MarketWatch and TVNewser
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.
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
More on the Plane That Didn't Crash, and ‘Truthiness’  —  A few weeks ago, I wrote about the plane that didn't crash - that is, about a Lives piece in The Times Magazine that has drawn significant criticism from aviation experts including Patrick ("Ask the Pilot") Smith and from James Fallows …
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
Allan Sloan / Fortune:
Zell's legacy lives on: IRS goes after Tribune  —  By the time the final papers are shuffled, the IRS and local tax authorities are likely seek more than half a billion dollars from Tribune in regard to the sales of the Chicago Cubs and Newsday under former CEO Sam Zell.
Discussion: Poynter and DealBook
 
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
GetGlue Hires Digital Media Veteran Evan Krauss As President To Boost Monetization Of Its Second-Screen Apps
Discussion: VentureBeat and The Wrap
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CBS News Washington Bureau Evacuated
Discussion: FishbowlDC and FishbowlNY
David Taintor / Adweek:
Pretty Much Everyone Is Doing Native Ads Now
Erik Wemple:
Sharyl Attkisson: ‘I think I know’ source of computer breaches
Discussion: Mediaite
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The NSA story isn't “journalistic malfeasance” — it's a story that is evolving in real time
Discussion: GigaOM and Medium
Josh Stearns / Mediashift:
How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable?
Discussion: TeleRead
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Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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