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9:55 AM ET, August 19, 2013

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Guardian:
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 …
BBC:
David Miranda detention: MP asks police for explanation  —  The police will be asked to justify the detention of a journalist's partner under terror laws, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee has said.  Keith Vaz said the full facts of David Miranda's nine-hour detention at Heathrow must be established quickly.
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 …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Condé Nast's style bible is still in Vogue as upmarket publisher sits pretty  —  Digital growth may be embryonic, but its luxury publications continue to show resilience to magazine downturn  —  This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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: eMedia Vitals and @kerina, Thanks:@steverubel
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 …
 
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