Mediagazer: Three years on: Has the Times digital subscription project worked? (Patrick Smith/The Media Briefing)

10:50 PM ET, July 6, 2013

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Guardian gets online traffic boost from Snowden story, now nipping at NYT's heels — According to new figures, the Guardian set a one-day traffic record with its Snowden coverage, and has also seen its overall traffic grow to the point where it is likely close to matching the New York Times.

Nicky Woolf / The Atlantic Online:

The British Are Coming—And They've Brought Newspapers — An interview with the editor-in-chief of Guardian US, which broke the Edward Snowden story. The Guardian is looking to expand in the U.S. market. — Of the three English-language newspaper websites with the highest readerships, two are British.

Discussion: Guardian, @saramorrison, @moorehn and @bobstep

Patrick Smith / The Media Briefing:

Three years on: Has the Times digital subscription project worked? — UPDATE: I've just been reminded that on the night the Times paywall launched I put on a panel discussion in my then role as in-house journalist / event producer at the Frontline Club. Thankfully, due to club founder …

Discussion: LNR Journalism

Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden — President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower ‘from persecution by the empire’ and rejects US extradition request — Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower …

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, Associated Press, Business Insider, Associated Press, @ggreenwald, @wikileaks, BBC, Business Insider, www.wnyc.org, msnbc.com, Firedoglake, Engadget and Gawker

Erik Wemple:

Greenwald: Journalist, activist, media transparentist — The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, breaker of stories on the National Security Agency (NSA), recently made the following declaration to the New York Times's David Carr about his approach to his work: “All activists are not journalists, but all real journalists are activists.”

Discussion: Business Insider

Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:

News Corp. Introduces a New Kind of Interactivity to the Classroom — Joel Klein joined News Corp. in 2010 to help shape the future of education, but educators were still focused on his past. He'd made many enemies during the previous eight years as New York City's public schools chancellor.

Aja Romano / Daily Dot:

Tumblr documents the Chicago Sun-Times' descent into iPhone photography — Just over a month after the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photography department, the newspaper's new policy of letting reporters use smartphones to take photos on their beats has turned into a regular series of embarrassments.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Silver Lake Abandons Hulu Purchase Effort, as Final Bidding Deadline Arrives Today — According to sources close to the situation, Silver Lake will not make a follow-on bid to buy the Hulu premium video service. The giant private equity firm had been allied in the effort …

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, CNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, bizjournals, Wall St. Cheat Sheet and Variety

Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal and Engadget

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

New research suggests it's possible to automatically identify fake images on Twitter — One of the most challenging aspects of social media is figuring out how to efficiently verify information and stop the spread of misinformation during breaking news situation.

Discussion: @sdbrownlie

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

MuckRock cofounder plans to appeal NSA's response to his FOIA request — Michael Morisy didn't get the answer he was looking for after making a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Agency. Hoping to find out more about the NSA's Utah Data Center …

Discussion: @postbaron and @jcstearns

Jim Conaghan / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Millennials Still Want Their Newspapers — Despite the perception that the under-30 crowd is leaving newspapers and their websites behind for other digital news outlets, studies are finding that the newspaper is still a vital source of information for the millennials.

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape — In tape, Murdoch is heard admitting to Sun journalists that payments to public officials were part of 'culture of Fleet Street — Scotland Yard detectives were on Friday attempting to track down a secret recording of Rupert Murdoch admitting …