Mediagazer: David Gregory Is What's Wrong With Washington (Andrew Sullivan/The Dish)

1:50 PM ET, June 24, 2013

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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

David Gregory Is What's Wrong With Washington — There has been an understandable collective wince at David Gregory's asking a fellow-journalist whether he should go to jail (I speak of Glenn Greenwald) for helping a whistle-blower. Now, as readers know, I'm somewhat skeptical …

Discussion: New York Times, Erik Wemple, Pressthink and The Week

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: CNN, Guardian, Business Insider, HKSAR, Reuters, The New Yorker Blog, Quartz, @editorialiste and RT

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:

WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We're Not Telling You — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been officially indicted by the United States under the Espionage Act, is en route to Ecuador, one of at least two countries in which he is seeking asylum, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said today on a call with reporters.

Discussion: CNET and The Lede

Michael Kelley / Business Insider:
Edward Snowden Didn't Show For Flight From Moscow To Havana, Cuba, And Now A Bunch Of Journalists Are Stuck On The Plane

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, TVNewser, Gawker, Forbes, @guardianworld, Reuters, @howardkurtz and Associated Press

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
WikiLeaks Spokesperson Says Group May Publish Snowden's Remaining Material

Discussion: TechCrunch and Talking Points Memo

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
You Don't Have To Like Edward Snowden

Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, Guardian, Hit & Run, Bangor Daily News, Pressing Issues, The Lede, @zephoria, Mediaite, The New Yorker Blog, The Next Web, @pkafka, @freddoso, @ggreenwald, CNN, New York Times and The Huffington Post

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Ecuador, Where Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum, Is No Utopia For Journalists

Discussion: Forbes, WikiLeaks, FishbowlNY, ZDNet, The Atlantic Wire, Softpedia News and Guardian

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 …

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: VentureBeat, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Pocket-lint and Variety

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: Capital New York and Guardian

The Huffington Post:

Phone Hacking Scandal Reportedly Went Far Beyond Media — LONDON (AP) — The phone hacking scandal rocking Britain extends well beyond the media industry to include law firms, debt collectors and other companies, a newspaper said Saturday. — The scandal has already sent shockwaves across …

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Sun, information-age.com, Huffington Post UK and Telegraph

Tom Harper / The Independent:
Pressure grows on Lord Leveson to explain why he ignored hacking beyond the press

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

3 signs you've left your job: creator of “BuzzFeed Lists” departs — Scott Lamb, who laid the foundation for much of BuzzFeed, has left the company. It's unclear why or where he is going next. — Scott Lamb, the man who created BuzzFeed's infamous listicles — such as …

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.

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Q&A: Digg's Andrew McLaughlin and Jake Levine Race to Replace Google Reader — For people who have grown accustomed to having their online news delivered throughout the day in neatly stacked headlines from all their favorite blogs and publishers, this next week is a tough one.

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Magazines' iPad Editions See 24% Ad Boost in Q1 — Kantar/PIB Report Shows Uptick, But Buyers Seek More Performance Data From Publishers — Magazine publishers are seeing more advertisers warm up to their iPad editions. — In the first quarter, the number of ad units …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Amazon's Lovefilm inks deal to stream ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Dexter’ — Courtesy of a deal with CBS, Amazon Lovefilm members in the U.K. and Germany can now stream several popular series. — Amazon Lovefilm subscribers can now trek into space or follow the adventures of a serial killer right from their own homes.