Mediagazer: Lauren Ashburn Joins Fox News (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

8:10 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Business Insider, The Switch, Techdirt, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, @ggreenwald, Mother Jones, CNN, Slate, @trevortimm, @arusbridger, Media Law Prof Blog, Boing Boing, NPR and The Huffington Post

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, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, PolicyMic, @rauschma, The Week, @jeneps, @louisemensch and Techdirt

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: @louisemensch, @jackofkent, @newsbreaker, @dseetharaman, Press Gazette 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: Free Press, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Guardian, @techopirate, Reporters Without Borders, Media Nation, The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, FishbowlNY and New York Times

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

BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation

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

BBC:
Row after journalist's partner held

Discussion: USA Today, Columbia Journalism Review, Amnesty International, The Daily Caller, NPR, Hit & Run and Poynter

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

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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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

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, Twitter Developers blogs, Fast Company, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, VatorNews, The Verge, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, @marksluckie and @poynter

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 has made a name for himself in the tech media world …

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

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

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter Lures Top Google Exec to Focus on Entertainment Biz (Exclusive) — Jennifer Prince to head social media company's ad sales efforts in movie, TV biz — Looking to win more Hollywood followers, Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, formerly Google's head of media and entertainment ad sales …

Discussion: Fast Company, Business Insider, Engadget, CNET, @joejive, Mashable, Marketing Pilgrim, Digital Spy and The Verge

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Arrival Of Fall, Not Football, Could End CBS Blackout — Time Warner Cable subscribers have been unable to watch CBS for 17 days due to a contract dispute. But, if historical trends are any guide, the beginning of fall — not the start of the football season — could provide the impetus to end the standoff.