Mediagazer: Drone journalism - The opportunities, risks and challenges (Rachel McAthy/Journalism.co.uk)

8:20 AM ET, June 24, 2013

Top News:

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

You Don't Have To Like Edward Snowden — Reporters have always been comfortable ignoring their sources' motives. Now everybody else needs to get used to that. … One of the most difficult features of the new news environment is that everybody gets to see the utter mess of the early hours …

Discussion: @freddoso, @ggreenwald, @pkafka, Mediaite, @zephoria, The New Yorker Blog, The Next Web, Guardian and Taegan Goddard's …

The Huffington Post:

David Gregory To Glenn Greenwald: 'Why Shouldn't You Be Charged With A Crime?' (VIDEO) — “Meet the Press” host David Gregory asked columnist Glenn Greenwald why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for working with NSA leaker Edward Snowden. — Greenwald, who was on to discuss Snowden's …

Discussion: TVNewser, @ggreenwald, Skating on Stilts, New York Times, Pressthink, @joshtpm, @joshtpm, Business Insider, @hblodget, @daveweigel, @cressman, The Hill, @davidkenner, Mediaite, @jayrosen_nyu and @jeffjarvis

CNN:

Snowden on the run, seeks asylum in Ecuador — Moscow (CNN) — Ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has asked for asylum in Ecuador, the South American country's foreign ministry announced Sunday as the United States urged countries to rebuff the leaker.

New York Times:

China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart — BEIJING — The Chinese government made the final decision to allow Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, a move that Beijing believed resolved a tough diplomatic problem even as it reaped …

Discussion: Quartz

Michael Kelley / Business Insider:

A Bunch Of Journalists Are Stuck On A Flight From Moscow To Havana, Cuba After Edward Snowden Didn't Show Up — This weekend NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden left a government safe house in Hong Kong and flew to Moscow, where he then booked a flight to Cuba.

Discussion: Guardian, @guardianworld, Associated Press, @howardkurtz and The Lede

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Ecuador, Where Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum, Is No Utopia For Journalists — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is bound for the sunnier skies of Ecuador, on this whirlwind tour of countries semi-hostile to the United States. While Ecuador has been a safe haven for world-class leakers in the past …

Discussion: Reuters, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, ZDNet, Guardian, Softpedia News and Forbes

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook, With a Focus on Mobile, Works on Project for News Via Users — Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. — The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers …

Discussion: The Verge, NetNewsCheck Latest, VentureBeat, Media News, 24/7 Wall St., Electronista, Pocket-lint, CNET, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, VatorNews, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Business Insider, App Advice, AllThingsD and Digits

David Carr / New York Times:

British Invasion Reshuffles U.S. Media — On Thursday night, the host of “The Daily Show” riffed on Paula Deen's liberal use of both butter and racial slurs, chatted about journalism with Tom Brokaw and parodied the gangster code of honor that has been in the news in the Whitey Bulger trial.

Discussion: Guardian

New York Times:

Hulu, Seeking a Buyer, May Shift Course — This year Hulu reached a milestone: viewers streamed more than one billion videos on the site in a single three-month period. — But the valedictory lap did not last long. Even as the number of views were adding up, so were concerns within the company about the site's future.

Discussion: DealBook

Noah Davis / The Awl:

Freelance Writing Online: What Are You Worth? — I didn't know what I would get paid to write this article. I didn't ask. It doesn't matter. It won't make a tangible dent in paying the rent on my apartment in Brooklyn, or, for that matter, rent on an apartment in any other city.

Wall Street Journal:

Hollywood's New Screen Test — Big Studios' Korea Experiment Rents Movies on Demand While Still in Theaters — Two Hollywood studios have quietly begun testing a controversial business model in South Korea after years of failed efforts in the U.S.: renting movies via video on demand while they are still playing in theaters.

Discussion: Gizmodo and The Verge

Sarah Darville / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Seeking an ocean of audience: Honolulu Civil Beat partners with Huffington Post to seek new revenue streams — When Honolulu Civil Beat launched three years ago, it took some contrarian stands. At a time when many civic-minded journalism startups were filing for nonprofit status, Civil Beat bet on succeeding as a for-profit.