Mediagazer: The newspaper plunge slows (Ryan Chittum/Columbia Journalism Review)

5:35 PM ET, June 24, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Greenwald Responds To Gregory's ‘Baseless, Reckless Assumption’ — NEW YORK — For years, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald has argued that journalists in Washington often seem too cozy with the political figures they're supposed to hold accountable and too quick to amplify the government's perspective on national security.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Skating on Stilts, Poynter, Philly.com, Free Press, @feldmaniac, @antderosa, @jeffjarvis, @om, @dsardia, Hit & Run and Techdirt

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, Mediaite, paidContent, Pressthink, The Week, Pressing Issues, FishbowlNY, Kirk LaPointe's … and @ggreenwald

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

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We're Not Telling You

Discussion: VentureBeat, Capital New York and Reuters

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

Discussion: Gawker, New York Times, TechCrunch and Talking Points Memo

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT publishes deleted story after BuzzFeed reporter reconstructs it — The odd tale of a story about women who corresponded with former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner that the New York Times published, then deleted earlier this month got odder Monday: BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski pieced a version of it together from Google searches.

Discussion: BuzzFeed

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: Deadline.com, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge and Los Angeles Times

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 …

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The newspaper plunge slows — But paywall strategies and new business are still not enough to offset print ad declines — The newspaper industry found an extra $6 billion in its couch cushions last year. — That's not new revenue, unfortunately—just newly measured revenue.

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

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

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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 …

Discussion: The New York Observer

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

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.

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.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Digital TV Europe, WebProNews, Variety, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and PR Newswire

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.

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