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9:55 PM ET, August 13, 2013

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How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets — This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.

Peter Maass / New York Times:

Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass — In the course of reporting his profile of Laura Poitras, Peter Maass conducted an encrypted question-and-answer session, for which Poitras served as intermediary, with Edward J. Snowden. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

TIM ARMSTRONG: I Made An Emotional Mistake Firing That Guy — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong just sent out the following memo to AOL staff, which we've obtained from a source inside the company. — The memo is in reference to Armstrong's firing of Patch creative director Abel Lenz on an all-hands conference call last week.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Valleywag, Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, CNET, New York Times, CNNMoney.com, @ezraklein, @morningmoneyben, @pkafka, Mashable, @charlesjb12 and The FJP

Jim Romenesko:

Patch ad sales down since it was announced that layoffs and site closings are coming — “Over the last 5 sales days, we have amassed our worst results of the year,” Patch director of U.S. sales Jim Lipuma tells his ad-sales force in a memo he put out today.

Discussion: Capital New York, Valleywag, Business Insider, @jyarow and @romenesko

Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

First post-paywall figures reveal slump in Sun website market share — The Sun's website lost more than a third of its market share of internet visitors in the first ten days following its move behind a paywall, new research suggests. — In the first indication of reader behaviour since …

Discussion: @domponsford

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Journalism Has Entered A Golden Age — CNN host Brian Stelter was kind enough to have me on his show, “Reliable Sources,” over the weekend. In response to one question, I said that journalism has entered a “golden age.” — Judging from the Twitter reaction, many of Brian's viewers agreed.

Discussion: @davewiner and @mmasnick

Brian Morrissey / Digiday:

For Media Now, ‘Talent Trumps All’ — NBC News yesterday announced it acquired Stringwire. The purchase added a user-generated streaming video platform but also buffed up the media organization's tech ranks with Stringwire founder Phil Grossman, who will join NBC News as a product lead out of its San Francisco office.

Discussion: @digiday and @vouchey

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Bleacher Report Co-Founder Bryan Goldberg Raises $6.5 Million To Launch A Site For Women, Bustle — Bryan Goldberg co-founded Bleacher Report, a sports media company that was acquired by Turner Media last year for more than $200 million. He's finally ready to announce his new venture, Bustle.

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Dseyler / Radio & Television Business Report:

California senators call for end to CBS-TWC sparring — Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) believe that subscribers are the big losers in the ongoing retransmission consent impasse between CBS and Time Warner Cable and have called for an end to the hostilities.

Discussion: Forbes, Variety, IVCPOST, voices.mydesert.com, TVSpy, Home Media Magazine and USA Today

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Apple acquires second screen TV startup Matcha.tv (scoop) — Updated at 6:01 p.m. (PST) with a response from Matcha.tv CEO Guy Piekarz. — Apple's latest acquisition is the recently shut down second-screen TV/video app Matcha.tv, according to a source with knowledge of the deal that asked to remain anonymous.

Discussion: AllThingsD, CNET, AppleInsider and MacRumors

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Getty Museum's Open Content project makes 4,600 pieces of art freely available to download — Much of the world's great artwork is tightly controlled, but the Getty Museum just announced a significant initiative to open things up — its new Open Content Program has made some 4,600 pieces of art from the museum's collection free to use.

Discussion: The Getty Iris, @globalmoxie, @karalee, Engadget and UnBeige

Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

‘The Atlantic’ Makes Big Push Into Video With 3 Original Series — The Atlantic is making a big push into original video with the launch of three new series this month. — Two of those series are built around The Atlantic's younger, albeit well-known, editors: senior editor Alexis Madrigal …

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