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Phillip Molnar / Monterey County Herald:
Restricted web access to The Guardian is Army wide, officials say — The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Army wide. — Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since …
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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Who is Leaking More: Edward Snowden or the Government Officials Condemning Him? — In the month since the Guardian first started reporting on the surveillance documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the government has taken to the media to condemn his leaks and insist he is flagrantly violating the law.
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BuzzFeed:
Under Pressure, Scribd Yanks Ecuadorian Spy Documents — File sharing service pulls documents relating to Ecuador's domestic spying program “because Scribd received a legally valid claim of copyright infringement pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).”
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Spinoff Forces Publishing Arm to Prove Growth — Murdoch Sees Unlocked Shareholder Value in Split — Rupert Murdoch bowed to investor pressure to split his six-decade-old publishing business from the rest of News Corp. (NWSA)'s media empire. Now it's time for the newspaper unit to prove it can make it on its own.
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
News Corp Wants to Compete With BuzzFeed — News Corp got a new logo, but that's not the only change on the horizon for Rupert Murdoch's company as it gets ready for Friday's split, when the money-making entertainment arm, which includes 21st Century Fox and Fox News, will be spun off …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Hulu's on pause — Owners extend bidding, eyeing $1B — Hulu's owners have extended the deadline for second-round bids until next week to allow DirecTV more time to line up financing, The Post has learned. — The satellite-TV provider is expected to submit a bid of around $1 billion …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
DOJ Reportedly Did Not Subpoena NYT Phone Records In Leak Investigation — NEW YORK — The Justice Department did not issue a subpoena for New York Times phone records in a leak investigation following David Sanger's 2012 article on the U.S. and Israel developing a computer virus …
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Abby Ohlheiser / The Atlantic Wire:
The Stuxnet Leaker Might Be the General Credited with Getting It Started
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Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Military Judge Deals Blow To Manning Defense — FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge dealt Bradley Manning's defense a blow on Friday, ruling that government prosecutors can enter two tweets from WikiLeaks into the trial record as circumstantial evidence against him.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Time Warner Cable to launch TV app on Xbox 360 — Time Warner Cable has made an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to bring its TV app to the tech giant's Xbox 360 devices. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg) — After already launching applications for smartphones, tablets and Roku's set-top boxes …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The other tabloid war: ‘Mail Online’ and ‘Daily News’ duke it out in digital — Mail Online, the loud and lurid website of England's favorite middle-market tabloid, The Daily Mail, has a lot to brag about right now. — Since formally constituting its American operation …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
In Louisiana, journalists face jail time for publishing gun info — Last Wednesday Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that imposes a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail for anyone who publishes “any information contained in an application for a concealed handgun permit …
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Sheron Boyle / PressGazette:
Byline banditry: How Sun staffer wanted byline for three weeks of my work — I have been a freelance writer since 1996 and before that spent eight years on regional papers honing my skills. From my office in my Yorkshire home, I supply all the national papers with news stories …
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