Mediagazer: Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo (Sam Biddle/Valleywag)

12:45 PM ET, June 18, 2013

Top News:

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

All journalism is advocacy (or it isn't) — Jay Rosen wrote a insightful post forking the practice of journalism into “politics: none” (that is, traditional American journalism: objective, it thinks) and “politics: some” (that is, the kind just practiced by Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian).

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

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Awl

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.

Discussion: Forbes, Business Insider, CNET, Mashable, memeburn, App Advice and WebProNews

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 …

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, Reuters, The Huffington Post and Courthouse News Service

@bbcbreaking: First civil phone #hacking claim in US is issued against News Corporation and News International, by former stunt double for Angelina Jolie

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Poynter, @bcappelbaum and @jayrosen_nyu

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

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CBS News Washington Bureau Evacuated — The Washington DC bureau for CBS News has been evacuated due to a suspicious package. We hear that staffers working in the building on M Street were told to congregate in an area nearby, where they are apparently holding now.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and FishbowlDC

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.

Discussion: PSFK and Subtraction.com

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 and TVNewser

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Apple Executive Defends Pricing in Case on E-Books — Just days after Apple introduced the iPad and opened an e-bookstore, the biggest player in the e-book market, Amazon, changed the way it sold digital titles. Steven P. Jobs shot off an e-mail to the Apple executive who had negotiated deals with the publishers.

Discussion: AppleInsider, Quartz, TUAW, Riptide 2.0, CNET, MACé" blog, AllThingsD, Fortune, 9to5Mac and Fortune

Josh Stearns / Mediashift:

How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable? — Last month the Chicago Sun Times fired its entire staff of photographers — 28 full-time journalists — and plans to rely primarily on freelancers. This news is just the most recent in a growing trend across the news industry …

Discussion: TeleRead