Mediagazer: Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

4:35 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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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 …

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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner — The United States was not involved in the detention of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, but was told it was likely that the Brazilian citizen would be stopped at London's Heathrow Airport, the White House said Monday.

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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 …

Pedro Fonseca / Reuters:

Snowden journalist to publish UK secrets after Britain detains partner — The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours.

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Glenn Greenwald ‘Not Worried At All’ About Britain Getting Info From His Partner's Seized Electronics — Anyone who has had the displeasure of making a connection at London's Heathrow airport could tell you a tale of woe. But David Miranda, the domestic partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, has a story to top all others.

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Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
Is Greenwald's journalism now viewed as a ‘terrorist’ job?

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BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation

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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.

Amy Davidson / The New Yorker:

Michael Grunwald and the Assange Precedent Problem — On Saturday night, Michael Grunwald, a Time correspondent, deleted a tweet that he said was “dumb”; a spokesperson for the magazine noted in an e-mailed statement that it had been on Grunwald's “personal twitter account” and …

Josh Stearns / Free Press:
A Growing Culture of Violence Against Journalists

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Eric Spitz / Wall Street Journal:

Start the Presses! It's How You Sell Newspapers — As iconoclastic as it may sound, it's time to stop chasing the digital ghost. — This month has seen a couple of successful businessmen with no newspaper experience acquire two of America's storied media institutions. Many people are wondering why.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Twitter launches new ‘related headlines’ section on tweets — A not so clearly worded blog post by Twitter engineer Brian Wallerstein created low-level panic among digital-content folks Monday. “Starting today, you will see a new ‘Related headlines’ section on Tweets that have been embedded on websites,” Wallerstein wrote.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Lauren Ashburn Joins Fox News — Daily Download editor-in-chief Lauren Ashburn has joined Fox News and Fox Business as a contributor. “Very excited about the opportunity to work with all of the great journalists at Fox News and Fox Business,” Ashburn told HuffPost in an email.

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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 …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NPR President Knell leaving network for National Geographic Society — Gary Knell plans to leave his post as NPR's president and CEO to assume a role with the same titles at the National Geographic Society, the network announced in a press release Monday. He took his current post in 2011.