Mediagazer: UK Gov't Forces Guardian To ‘Destroy’ Hard Drives With Snowden Info; Guardian Says Reporting Continues From NY (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

4:30 AM ET, August 20, 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 …

Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …

Discussion: New York Times, Press Gazette, Spectator, BBC, @freerobby, The Week, @georgiebc, @jury, Reuters, New York Times, Business Insider, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, Joshua Foust, The Switch, The Daily Caller and Techdirt

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.

Discussion: NBCNews, Hot Air, @johncusack and Reuters

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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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”.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
UK Gov't Forces Guardian To ‘Destroy’ Hard Drives With Snowden Info; Guardian Says Reporting Continues From NY

Discussion: Forbes, Guardian, @guardianus, Boing Boing, @antonioregalado, @octavianasr, @youranonnews, Free Press, The Atlantic Online, @techopirate, @biancajagger, Business Insider, Media Law Prof Blog, Guardian, Media Nation, The Verge, FishbowlNY and Freedom of the Press …

BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation

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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 — 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.

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Condé Nast Stops Paying Interns — Magazine conglomerate Condé Nast, which was slapped with a lawsuit in June for paying interns less than a dollar per hour, has decided to stop paying interns altogether. Zero. Several recent Conde interns told the Who Pays Interns Tumblr …

Discussion: @jcstearns, @dangillmor, @jilliancyork, Who Pays Interns? and Guardian

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, Gawker and Beet.TV

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 …

Discussion: @panzer, @noir, @spencerchen, @mat and @jasonkincaid

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.

Discussion: Official Twitter blog, Nieman Journalism Lab, Twitter Developers blogs, Gizmodo, @marksluckie, @poynter, ReadWrite, @marksluckie, VatorNews, Pocket-lint, GigaOM and The Verge

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