Mediagazer: OC Register Set to be Anaheim's Corporate Sponsorship Broker (Voice of OC)

8:10 AM ET, August 19, 2013

Top News:

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours — David Miranda, partner of Guardian interviewer of whistleblower Edward Snowden, questioned under Terrorism Act — The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programs …

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation — The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended — At 6:30 am this morning my time - 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US - I received a telephone call from someone …

BBC:

David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation — The police will be asked to justify the detention of a journalist's partner under terror laws, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee has said. Keith Vaz said the full facts of David Miranda's nine-hour detention at Heathrow must be established quickly.

Discussion: The Independent, Huffington Post UK, Zee News and Voice of Russia

Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:

James Truman, a Crown Prince in a New Kingdom — Of all the new careers one might expect for a 55-year-old former publishing executive, part-time record producer is not the most likely. — Yet there was James Truman one night last winter, standing in the Boom Boom Room on the top floor …

Discussion: @kerrylauerman, @1bobcohn and The Corsair

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Condé Nast's style bible is still in Vogue as upmarket publisher sits pretty — Digital growth may be embryonic, but its luxury publications continue to show resilience to magazine downturn — This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies …

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News — Fourteen hours of straight news every day. Hard-hitting documentaries. Correspondents in oft-overlooked corners of the country. And fewer commercials than any other news channel. — It sounds like something a journalism professor would imagine.

Discussion: @sergenyt, @s_dockery, @edwardboches, @jamieshupak and GigaOM

New York Times:

Expecting the Unexpected From Jeff Bezos — EARLY employees of Amazon still remember the day the company took away their aspirin. — It was late 1999. After years of heady excess, the Internet boom was beginning to falter. Amazon, among the most celebrated of the dot-coms, was burdened with debt and spiraling losses.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Business Insider, @publisherswkly, @sfiegerman, @kirstinestewart, @stevekovach, @karaswisher, @timoreilly, NewsTrust, @postbaron, @jfdulac, LinkedIn, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi and Mother Jones

Joshua Hersh / The Huffington Post:

Egyptian Government Slams Foreign Press As Journalists Come Under Assault — CAIRO — Facing a wave of international condemnation for its approach to a Muslim Brotherhood protest movement, and the soaring violence that followed in its wake, Egypt's government opened a sustained broadside …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, FP Passport, Kirk LaPointe's …, @blufftonhornos, @saskiasassen, The Atlantic Wire, BBC and Committee to Protect …

Jefferson Graham / USA Today:

Remember podcasting? It's back - and booming — Anyone who's anyone has a podcast these days. And they're finding millions of listeners. — CONNECT — LOS ANGELES — Shane Dawson produces videos for YouTube, where his homegrown productions have received more than 2 billion views.

Discussion: @kerina, Thanks:@steverubel

Steve Henn / NPR:

Switching To Gmail May Leave Reporters' Sources At Risk — In the digital world, almost everything you do to communicate leaves a trace. Often, emails are stored on servers even after they're deleted. Phone calls create logs detailing which numbers connected, when and for how long.

Discussion: @mylespeterson, @chroniclesu, @bradagreenberg, @dangillmor and @antderosa

John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:

The TV Recappers: From ‘Breaking Bad’ to Honey Boo Boo — The rise of a cottage industry, episode by episode — The biggest challenges facing most “Breaking Bad” fans during the crime drama's final weeks are coping with cliffhangers and nervously speculating about the show's conclusion.

Discussion: @nickscalera, @jaredbkeller, @sepinwall and @saramorrison

Voice of OC:

OC Register Set to be Anaheim's Corporate Sponsorship Broker — Freedom Communications, owner of The Orange County Register, is poised to strike a highly unusual partnership with the city of Anaheim whereby the media company would be the city's broker as it pursues corporate sponsorships …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review and @markjurkowitz