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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 …
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Jake Miller / CBS News:
White House: “We expect” Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition — White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told CBS News Saturday that the U.S. government has asked Hong Kong authorities to extradite Edward Snowden, the man behind the recent leaks of classified government surveillance programs …
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AllThingsD, The Verge and New York Times
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden — Who is actually bringing ‘injury to America’: those who are secretly building a massive surveillance system or those who inform citizens that it's being done? — The US government has charged Edward Snowden with three felonies …
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 …
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BBC
Noreen Malone / New Republic:
Sources of Discomfort — National security reporting in the age of leak hunts
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Poynter
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
The Guardian Responds To Sen. McCaskill's Charge Of Promoting ‘Agenda’ Through NSA Reporting
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The Huffington Post and Politico
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Edward Snowden isn't determining order of leaks, reporters say
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Washington Post, The Week and Mother Jones
Wall Street Journal:
Data Group Ends Peeks After Leaks — WASHINGTON—A private-sector group that produces a leading consumer-confidence survey is suspending its practice of giving media organizations an early preview because it fears the information may be leaking to traders before the public.
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Business Insider
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law — Google News in Germany will soon change. Starting August 1, it will only index sources that have decided to explicitly opt-in to being shown on the search giant's news-aggregation service.
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Forbes, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Engadget, The Verge and The Next Web
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
An Egyptian Journalist's Nightmare — The ordeal of Yehia Ghanem, who was convicted in Egypt's notorious NGO trial. — In a long and distinguished career in Egyptian journalism, Yehia Ghanem has been a foreign correspondent and an editor for Al-Ahram, the country's most respected newspaper.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Disappointing Fall for ‘Rock Center,’ a News Program With Big Ambitions — If “Rock Center With Brian Williams” has proved anything in the last year and a half, it is this: However hard it is to gather an audience for any kind of show in prime time, for news programming, the task is even harder.
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The Huffington Post and TVNewser
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Cord cutters alert: 60 million Americans now use an antenna to watch free TV — Antennas aren't just for grandma's boob tube anymore: 19.3 percent of all US TV households get their TV fix from free over-the-air broadcasts, according to a new GfK study released this week.
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Los Angeles Times
Marianne Brown / Voice of America:
Vietnam Urged to Release Bloggers on Journalism Day — HANOI — While journalists working for Vietnam's state-run media are receiving gifts for Revolutionary Journalism Day, bloggers and Internet activists are not so lucky. The Vietnamese government seems eager to celebrate the role …
Christie Smythe / Bloomberg:
Gawker's Unpaid Interns Sue After Fox Searchlight Ruling — Gawker Media LLC was sued by unpaid interns who allege the online publisher violated minimum-wage law, 10 days after a federal judge ruled in a similar case that interns at Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc. should have been paid.
Floyd Norris / New York Times:
Tribune Falls Afoul of Its Own Tax Strategy — It was perhaps the cleverest corporate tax strategy ever devised: no matter how much money the company made, neither it nor its shareholders would ever owe a penny in federal income taxes. — “In conception, it was brilliant,” said Robert Willens …
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