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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' — 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 …
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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”.
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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.
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 …
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
UK agents, seeking to stop leaks, destroyed The Guardian's hard drives
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
David Miranda's detention was entirely legitimate
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Arrival Of Fall, Not Football, Could End CBS Blackout
Arrival Of Fall, Not Football, Could End CBS Blackout
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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) …
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@karenmcgrane, @jason_pontin and @niemanlab
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 …
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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.
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