Mediagazer: Times directors appear ready agree to integration with Sunday Times (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

7:50 AM ET, June 27, 2013

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

The personal side of taking on the NSA: emerging smears — Distractions about my past and personal life have emerged - an inevitable side effect for those who challenge the US government — When I made the choice to report aggressively on top-secret NSA programs, I knew that I would inevitably …

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Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:

How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald — Before he was the Guardian's eyes on the National Security Agency, Greenwald was a Manhattan litigator with an itchy trigger finger. “He doesn't care if the entire world hates him.” — Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke …

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Erik Wemple:

Bloomberg News reporter had 18 ledes ready for Supreme Court rulings — Persistent mistakes by news organizations on big, national stories have spawned a growing consensus in journalism circles. Better to be right than first, goes the thinking. People won't remember who was first to report …

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Tim Westergren / Pandora Blog:

Pandora and Royalties — (Warning: This is long, but I'd really like to fully articulate Pandora's perspective on royalties, which is simply impossible to do in just a few sentences.) — Over 13 years ago when I started this company, we set out with a singular mission …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Times directors appear ready agree to integration with Sunday Times — When James Harding was relieved of The Times's editorship last December without Rupert Murdoch bothering to inform the paper's independent national directors (INDs) they were, understandably, upset.

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google will remove all Blogger sites that monetize adult content, from June 30 — Google sent an email to Blogger users today warning them that their site will be removed at the end of the month if they do not remove all adverts and links to external sites hosting adult content.

Discussion: XBIZ Newswire

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Standard makes £82,000 profit as Independent titles lose £17.5m — The London Evening Standard turned a big loss into a modest profit last year. According to figures filed today with Companies House, the newspaper made an operating profit of £82,000 during the 12 months …

The Wrap:

Newsday Shuts Down Westchester, N.Y., Branch (Exclusive) — Cablevision, which owns Newsday, shut down its year-old Westchester site effective immediately, an insider with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. No statement from Cablevision yet, but its official Twitter account, @NewsdayNY, and Facebook is already gone.

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Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:

Black and White and Red All Over — Owners of the Oregonian gamble on the newspaper's digital future. — The death of The Oregonian as you know it came at 9:58 am on June 20. — That's when reporters, editors, photographers and designers who put out the 163-year-old daily newspaper were told to …

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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:

Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels — Ahead of its launch of an online radio service, Apple circulated terms to independent record labels last week, many of them more generous to the music companies than what rival Pandora Media currently pays.

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

France's Les Echos launching business news aggregation — Head of digital Frederic Filloux outlined how new project LesEchos360 will aggregate business news using semantic analysis French news outlet Les Echos is launching a new business news aggregation platform, using semantic analysis to sort and rank sources.

WAN-IFRA:

New multilingual news organisation aims for global reach through Internet, apps — From 1 July, the Israel-based i24 news will attempt to take on the likes of Al Jazeera, the BBC and France 24 with a tri-lingual 24 hour television channel that will be accessible in its entirety on the web and through mobile apps.

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

CNN International site to emphasise ‘human curation’ — The broadcast site is to promote correspondents' voices and long-form content alongside breaking news, as well as a more visual focus — CNN International is undergoing “incremental” improvements in its website to give it a more visual …

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Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:

‘The Sun’ keeps topless Page 3 models, drops ‘News in Briefs’ — New editor of The Sun David Dinsmore has said that the newspaper will continue to print pictures of topless models on Page 3. — His predecessor Dominic Mohan had come under increasing pressure to stop the practice …

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Matthew Kauffman / The Scoop:

You Want Those Public Records? That'll Be $16 Million Please. — When reporters at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sought access to public records about tax-lien sales that were costing residents of Fulton County millions of dollars, officials said the newspaper could have the data - for a fee.