Mediagazer: NPR President Knell leaving network for National Geographic Society (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

2:25 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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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 …

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: @jayrosen_nyu, @jeneps, @charliebeckett, Guardian and @blakehounshell

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: @jackofkent, @louisemensch, @newsbreaker and @dseetharaman

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

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Glenn Greenwald ‘Not Worried At All’ About Britain Getting Info From His Partner's Seized Electronics

Discussion: @charliebeckett

BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation

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

Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Detention aims to intimidate journalists

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Drum and Guardian

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.

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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 …

Discussion: @kerrylauerman, @1bobcohn and The Corsair

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

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 …

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

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

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review and @markjurkowitz

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.

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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.

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, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Nieman Journalism Lab and @poynter

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 …