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5:35 AM ET, June 28, 2013

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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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Jack Shafer:
What an NSA charm offensive looks like  —  Banged and bruised in the press over the NSA secrets liberated by Edward Snowden and serialized in the Guardian and the Washington Post, the national security establishment resorted to a little media offense earlier this week with a series of conversations with major news outlets.
Discussion: Mediaite, @ravisomaiya and @hbobrien
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Anonymous Government Officials Use Media To Make Case Against Snowden  —  NEW YORK — In April 2011, the Associated Press reported that U.S. airstrikes in Yemen 15 months earlier had forced al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to reconsider how it communicates.
Dan Mitchell / Fortune:
Media is ruining the NSA debate  —  The debate over how much privacy we should give up in return for how much protection is necessary, but complicated.  It's too important leave it to Twitter and cable news.  —  FORTUNE — The revelation of the National Security Agency's collecting …
Discussion: Guardian and @ryanchittum
Sean Parker / TechCrunch:
Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism  —  OUR WEDDING My wife, Alexandra, and I met five years ago, fell in love, and almost immediately began fantasizing about our wedding day, which, we both agreed, should take place deep within an enchanted forest.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Set to Sell Globe for Fraction of Purchase  —  New York Times Co. (NYT), which is accepting bids for the Boston Globe today, is likely to fetch a price that's about a 10th of what it paid in 1993, a sign of the industry's deterioration over the past two decades.
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Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
At least five groups submit bids to buy The Boston Globe  —  At least five groups are believed to have submitted bids to buy the Boston Globe, according to several people involved in or briefed on the offers.  —  The bidders, whose offers were due Thursday at 5 p.m., include several of the names previously reported.
BBC:
Turkey seeks to tighten control over Twitter  —  The Turkish government has asked Twitter to set up an office inside the country so company representatives can be reached more easily.  Both Twitter and Facebook were used to spread information during recent anti-government protests.
Discussion: @emilydparker, RT, Europe and Daily Dot
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Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI  —  On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport.
Ciara Byrne / Co.Labs:
Circa's Object-Oriented Approach To Building The News  —  Since newspapers first started to print, the basic unit of news has been the article, an unstructured blob of data.  A news article contains standard elements like a headline, quotes, facts and photos.  It has a clear beginning and an end.
Discussion: @digidave, paidContent, @deciara and Soup
Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg Brings Silicon Valley Friends to Sun Valley  —  Facebook Inc. (FB), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Netflix Inc. (NFLX) are sending more executives to the annual Allen & Co. gathering of moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, the latest sign of technology's growing role in entertainment.
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 …
Discussion: Politico
Greg Gilman / The Wrap:
Former Intern Files Lawsuit Against Production Co. Behind Nickelodeon's ‘Alien Dawn’ (Updated)  —  Plaintiff Kevin Hicks has filed suit against the production company and producers behind the Nicktoons program  —  Yet another lawsuit has been filed against a production company in Hollywood …
Discussion: Variety
 
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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Amazon's open call to filmmakers now includes video submissions
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Variety
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Five years of social media evolution at Al Jazeera
Mark Glaser / Mediashift:
Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin Expects More Journalism Campaigns, Disintermediation
Richard Prince / Maynard Institute:
ASNE Diversity Figures at Odds With Population Trends
Thanks:@gnagesh
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A proof of concept for a news site sending a push notification to a desktop computer
Discussion: Softpedia News and 9to5Mac
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Northern Ireland decides not to follow English and Welsh libel reforms
Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:
Meet The First People Who Can Say They Have A Vine Agent
 Earlier Picks: 
Jim Romenesko:
Wikipedia founder's net worth is said to be just above $1 million
Discussion: New York Times and Yahoo! News
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Leveson to appear before MPs to discuss press regulation
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Soledad O'Brien in Talks for Al Jazeera America Production Deal
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Internet adverts threatening profile of TV campaigns, says Sir John Hegarty
Discussion: PSFK
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Google will remove all Blogger sites that monetize adult content, from June 30
Discussion: CNET, The Verge and XBIZ Newswire