Mediagazer: Start the Presses! It's How You Sell Newspapers (Eric Spitz/Wall Street Journal)

5:30 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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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.

Discussion: Guardian, USA Today, Yahoo! News, Slate, Mediaite, Media Nation, The Huffington Post, Techdirt, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @jeneps and National Review

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.

Discussion: Press Gazette, @louisemensch, @jackofkent, @newsbreaker, @dseetharaman and Guardian

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.

Discussion: The Dish, Guardian, @techopirate, The Atlantic Online, FishbowlNY, The Week and PolicyMic

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

BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation

Discussion: Guardian, BBC, Amnesty International, The Huffington Post, Zee News, Huffington Post UK, Voice of Russia and The Independent

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.

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Orange County Register, FishbowlNY, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @georgedearing, @giner, @mathewi, @ryanchittum, @hblodget and Gannett Blog

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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TechCrunch:

Matthew Panzarino Joins TechCrunch As Senior Editor — Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, and most recently the Managing Editor at The Next Web. — He's has made a name for himself in the tech media world …

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.

Discussion: Official Twitter blog, Nieman Journalism Lab, Fast Company, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, @marksluckie, The Verge, Twitter Developers blogs and @poynter

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.

Discussion: Politico and Gawker

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Is Fox-Vice the Most Conservative Media Deal of the Year? — Yes, Vice Really Is Worth More Than Instagram or Tumblr — Media types sure aren't hiding how they feel about the news that 21st Century Fox is buying 5% of Vice Media in a deal that values the Brooklyn-based multimedia company at $1.4 billion. …

Discussion: Forbes, @rafat, Beet.TV, Los Angeles Times, Gawker and Digital Spy

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.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, NPR, JIMROMENESKO.COM, PR Newswire, The Wrap, New York Times, Radio & Television …, @davidfolkenflik, Broadcasting & Cable, The New York Observer, NetNewsCheck Latest, Variety, @davidfolkenflik, @jeffsonderman, @onthemedia, @inajaffenpr and @nprinskeep

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