Mediagazer: Row after journalist's partner held (BBC)

10:20 AM ET, August 19, 2013

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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 …

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.

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BBC:
Row after journalist's partner held

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Simon Jenkins / Guardian: Is Glenn Greenwald's journalism now viewed as a ‘terrorist’ occupation?

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 …

Discussion: @kerrylauerman, @1bobcohn and The Corsair

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.

Discussion: New York Post, @jaredbkeller, @nickbryantny, Corporate Intelligence, @brianstelter, @sergenyt, @s_dockery, @edwardboches, @jamieshupak and GigaOM

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.

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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 …

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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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, FP Passport, @blufftonhornos, @saskiasassen, The Atlantic Wire, Kirk LaPointe's …, BBC and Committee to Protect …

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 …

Discussion: Engadget, GigaOM, Digital Spy, Marketing Pilgrim and The Verge