Mediagazer: Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media ‘Journolist’ (Hamilton Nolan/Gawker)

6:45 PM ET, June 21, 2013

Top News:

U.S. charges Snowden with espionage — Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, RT, @pewresearch, @jcstearns, Boing Boing, @emptywheel, @arimelber, The Next Web, @ggreenwald and The Week

Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:

Army: Freedom of Information Does Not Include Edward Snowden's Military File — A Freedom of Information Act request from The Atlantic Wire for the military records of Edward Snowden was “withheld in its entirety” by the Department of the Army. Despite the public value of better understanding …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Edward Snowden isn't determining order of leaks, reporters say

Discussion: Guardian and Mother Jones

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

High-Ranking Washington Post Editor Considering Government Job — NEW YORK — Douglas Frantz, the national security editor for the Washington Post, is considering taking a job with the State Department and is currently on leave from the paper, according to newsroom sources.

Discussion: @johnrussell99

Noreen Malone / New Republic:

Sources of Discomfort — National security reporting in the age of leak hunts — It doesn't take a top-secret data-mining algorithm to tell you that national security reporting has changed in the years since 9/11. A would-be whistle-blower is newly able to share vast amounts of classified information by simply tapping a mouse pad.

Discussion: Poynter

Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
The Guardian Responds To Sen. McCaskill's Charge Of Promoting ‘Agenda’ Through NSA Reporting

Discussion: Politico and The Huffington Post

David Goetzl / mediapost.com:
NSA Snooping Could Impact Media Research

Discussion: Guardian and CNET

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Rolling Stone Publisher Fired: Matt Mastrangelo was there 3 years — Jann Wenner has dismissed the publisher of his flagship Rolling Stone, Matt Mastrangelo. Mastrangelo had been in the position for three years (12 years in all at Wenner Media), and first-quarter ad pages were up 17 percent year-over-year to 190.

Discussion: The New York Observer, FishbowlNY, @lmoses and Gawker

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Yahoo's Mayer shines spotlight on video — Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo, answers questions during the Reuters Global Technology Summit in the Thomson Reuters offices in San Francisco, California, June 20, 2013. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach — As Marissa Mayer approaches …

Discussion: Business Insider and @peterlauria3

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media ‘Journolist’ — Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of “Journolist,” a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal!

Discussion: The Wrap, Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, @delrayser, @daveweigel, @daveweigel, @hamiltonnolan, @moorehn, @j_strong, @daveweigel, @ledbetreuters, @pjtatler and Softpedia News

Wired:

Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The Internet is up for grabs. — Foreign countries want to control it. Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions. ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Ars Technica, Slate, The Huffington Post, Hillicon Valley, Techdirt, The Verge, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Raw Story, RT and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: 'Aaron's Law' Proponents Talk About Restraining Prosecutorial Abuse

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The ax falls at The Oregonian — Not that long ago, The Oregonian was one of the better news organizations in the country. — In 2008, Editor & Publisher named Sandy Rowe and Peter Bhatia its Editors of the Year and reported that The Oregonian had 315 full-time journalists in its newsroom the year before.

Discussion: Willamette Week, Oregon Business, Oregonian, GeekWire, bizjournals and Willamette Week

Nick Statt / ReadWrite:

How Instagram Remade Photography (And Could Do The Same For Video) — On a stage at Facebook headquarters Thursday, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom didn't say much about photos—except to note that its 130 million users have taken 16 billion of them. Now, as Systrom pushes the photo-sharing service …

Discussion: CNET

Christopher Mims / Quartz:
It's no accident Facebook made Instagram's new videos exactly as long as a television commercial

Discussion: TechCrunch, Slate, Digiday, The Week, WebProNews, Forbes, GigaOM, BuzzFeed, The New Yorker Blog, Engadget, The Verge and Guardian

Howard Sherman / Monkey See:

AP Kills Off-Broadway, Opera, Dance Reviews: Will It Hurt The Arts? … Ever so quietly this week, the national arts scene became a bit more fragmented, a bit more stratified and a lot more invisible. The Associated Press has just spiked regular coverage of opera, dance and off-Broadway theater.

Discussion: Poynter and BroadwayWorld.com

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement Monday: ‘All your favorite websites, in one place’ — As the end of Google Reader nears, AOL is planning to announce its own alternative to the service: “AOL Reader.” — As you can see on the current landing page for the service, which is public …

Discussion: Betabeat, AllThingsD, CNET, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Engadget, The Verge, WebProNews, Mashable and Gizmodo

Edmund Lee / @edmundlee:

Former interns sue @Gawker for violating minimum-wage laws. Suit filed in Manhattan federal court.

Discussion: Business Insider, @edmundlee, @robynurback, BU Today and @sarahw

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Paton: ‘Bad CEOs and worse editors’ are trying to ‘kill our future’ — Speaking at the Global News Editors conference in Paris, Digital First Media CEO John Paton said Friday that “editors resisting change are aided and abetted by lousy CEOs and news executives.”

Discussion: Digital First, Digital First Media, Journalism.co.uk, paidContent, paidContent and Quotes and Snippets

Nicholas Vinocur / Reuters:

France to seek ban on Amazon bundled discounts, free delivery — (Reuters) - France's Socialist government aims to introduce a law preventing online retailer Amazon from offering both discounts and free delivery for books in France, the culture minister said, arguing this amounts to unfair competition.

Discussion: Businessweek, The Next Web, Business Insider, Mashable and Softpedia News