Mediagazer: Why Did The Government Spy On Justin Raimondo? (Rosie Gray/BuzzFeed)

8:30 AM ET, August 14, 2013

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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Apple acquires second screen TV startup Matcha.tv (scoop) — 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 who asked to remain anonymous. Matcha.tv was an iOS app that provided a comprehensive overview …

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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: eMedia Vitals, @hamishmckenzie, @martingiesler, @cayseyw, @davewiner and @mmasnick

Cordt Schnibben / Spiegel Online:

Circulation Declines Hit German Papers a Decade after America — It came to Germany almost a decade later than America, but the newspaper crisis is sweeping the country, with plummeting circulations and revenues. The German news media must reinvent itself in order to retain readers.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis and @amonck

Jay Barmann / SFist:

S.F. Chronicle Finally Abandons Paywall? — It appears that the Chronicle's exclusive content, which has been locked behind that dreaded subscriber paywall since they launched it in late March, has magically appeared today again for free on SFGate, without much fanfare.

Discussion: The Snitch, SF Appeal, bizjournals, @caseynewton, @musicsf and CNET

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

Bleacher Report Founder Responds to Fury Surrounding His New ‘Feminist Publication’ — Bryan Goldberg speaks to TheWrap about Bustle, his controversial $6.5 million women's website — Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg revealed his new web venture on Tuesday, raising questions of journalistic integrity and sexism in the process.

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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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Peter Maass / New York Times:

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.

Tom Ramstack / Reuters:

U.S. WikiLeaks judge overrules objections on classified testimony — (Reuters) - The judge hearing the court-martial of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks, on Tuesday overruled defense attorneys' objections over classified testimony against their client.

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Erik Sass / MediaPost:

More Print News Subscribers Plan To Cancel Subs, Uptick In Mobile Consumption — It's no secret that newspapers and magazine publishers have suffered steep declines in print circulation over the last decade, and that trend is just going to continue, according to a survey of 1,134 U.S. adults conducted …

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Why Did The Government Spy On Justin Raimondo? — The FBI tracked Antiwar.com. Raimondo sued to find out why. — WASHINGTON — In a time marked by high profile conflicts between journalists and the government, one such story has gone largely unnoticed: the lawsuit brought …

Jim Romenesko:

Where Boston Phoenix journalists landed after the alt-weekly closed — Peter Kadzis says of the gray day that the 47-year-old weekly paper closed: “At the moment — and still in retrospect — it had a dream-like quality. There was that pull between the unconscious (can this really be happening?) and the conscious (yes, it is!).

Discussion: @vanyaland617, @kadzis and @wesleylowery

Canberra Times:

Public servants warned: watch what you say — Public servants have a “special job” and should be unsurprised if they are disciplined - even sacked - for criticising the government, an employment law specialist says. — Last week, the Federal Circuit Court rejected Michaela Banerji's application …

Discussion: Geekosystem and Sydney Morning Herald