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9:05 AM ET, August 20, 2013

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 Top News: 
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'  —  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 …
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”.
Discussion: Big News Network.com
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.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
David Miranda's lawyers threaten legal action over ‘unlawful’ detention  —  Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald seeks return of equipment seized during nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow  —  Lawyers for the partner of the Guardian journalist who exposed mass email surveillance …
Discussion: BBC, @fleetstreetfox, @jlllow and @nycjim
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
UK agents, seeking to stop leaks, destroyed The Guardian's hard drives
Discussion: Guardian, @dansabbagh and Taking Note
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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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 …
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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) …
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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Dawn Airey to run Yahoo operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa  —  Appointment of media executive, who left RTL in April, marks end of protracted hunt by internet company  —  Dawn Airey, the former Channel 5, Sky and ITV senior executive, is to run Yahoo's operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Discussion: Media Week, Variety and Softpedia News
 
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Ecuador Leader May Insist On Digital-Only Dailies
Discussion: The Verge
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
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Discussion: Grist and @stefanjbecket
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Penguin Random House Makes TV Play
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Digital publisher Open Road raises $11M in Series C funding
Josh Stearns / Free Press:
A Growing Culture of Violence Against Journalists
Discussion: @johncusack and @jcstearns, Thanks:@jcstearns
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lauren Ashburn Joins Fox News
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NPR President Knell leaving network for National Geographic Society
Eric Spitz / Wall Street Journal:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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