Mediagazer: Is Fox-Vice the Most Conservative Media Deal of the Year? (Simon Dumenco/AdAge)

9:20 AM ET, August 20, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers 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 with a four-letter expletive …

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Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, has accused Britain of a “total abuse of power” for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow under the Terrorism Act.

Sarah Young / Reuters:

British authorities say detention of reporter's partner ‘legally sound’ — (Reuters) - Britain's authorities said on Tuesday the use of anti-terrorism powers to detain the partner of a journalist who wrote about U.S. and British surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward Snowden was “legally and procedurally sound”.

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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

No, Glenn Greenwald didn't ‘vow vengeance.’ He said he was going to do his job. — Glenn Greenwald, the journalist at the Guardian who broke many of the stories related to the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks over the past two months, had a stressful weekend.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
David Miranda's lawyers threaten legal action over ‘unlawful’ detention

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
UK agents, seeking to stop leaks, destroyed The Guardian's hard drives

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Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel:
David Miranda's detention was entirely legitimate

Discussion: The Week, Guy Fawkes' blog and Hot Air

Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:

A Q&A With Jill Abramson The Times' top editor on mean bosses, liberal biases, and the demise of the Washington Post — For generations, the publishers of the great American newspapers were accidents of birth—sons and daughters (and assorted other relatives) who inherited their positions atop the masthead.

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

How to Build a Smarter Times, According to the Times' Own Journalists — In 1976, legendary Timesman A.M. Rosenthal, faced with the rising cost of newsprint, tasked his equally legendary deputy, Arthur Gelb, with formulating new sections to attract extra ads and readers to the newspaper and …

Discussion: @mathewi, The New Republic, @albertocairo, @marcatracy, @scott_bot and @mlcalderone

Groklaw:

Forced Exposure — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

More NSA Spying Fallout: Groklaw Shutting Down — A few months ago, after the NSA spying stories first broke, we wrote about a bit from This American Life where the host, Ira Glass, was interviewing lawyers for prisoners detained at Guantanamo, about the impact of knowing that the government …

Discussion: Engadget

Ken Auletta / Currency:

CBS, Time Warner Cable, and the Disruption of TV — Until the nineteen-eighties, American television was dominated by CBS, NBC, and ABC, broadcast networks so powerful that they were known simply as the Big Three. Then a new technology came along, one that gave viewers many more options to choose from …

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Arrival Of Fall, Not Football, Could End CBS Blackout

Discussion: @peterlauria3, @peterlauria3, @mattlynley, @merrittjennifer, @samgustin, @samgustin and @dana_mcclintock

Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Netflix Named Exclusive U.S. Subscription TV Service for The Weinstein Company Films — The first-run partnership will begin in 2016 — Netflix and The Weinstein Company announced Tuesday a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service …

Brian Morrissey / Digiday:

Justin Smith's Blueprint for Modern Media — The path of modern media is anything but direct. — Justin Smith, the new CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is emerging as one of the trailblazers. His track record at The Economist, The Week and, most recently, The Atlantic suggests a willingness …

Discussion: @gregory, @mathewi, @pkedrosky, @katytorg, @digiday, @bmorrissey, @jeffjarvis, Strange Attractor and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@digiday

Ami Sedghi / Guardian:

Digital magazines: how popular are they? — The latest magazine circulation figures from the PPA show promising digital results for the industry - but is it enough to offset the fall in print? — Magazine circulation figures by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) …

Discussion: @karenmcgrane, @jason_pontin and @niemanlab

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, @carr2n, @pkafka, @rafat, Los Angeles Times and Beet.TV