Mediagazer: UK agents, seeking to stop leaks, destroyed The Guardian's hard drives (Joe Mullin/Ars Technica)

3:05 PM ET, August 20, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

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Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, has accused Britain of a “total abuse of power” for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow under the Terrorism Act.

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Julian Borger / Guardian:

NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files — A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London — Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed …

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Sarah Young / Reuters: British authorities say detention of reporter's partner ‘legally sound’

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
David Miranda's lawyers threaten legal action over ‘unlawful’ detention

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Tim Ross / Telegraph:
David Cameron accused of sanctioning detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda

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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
No, Glenn Greenwald didn't ‘vow vengeance.’ He said he was going to do his job.

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
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

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

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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.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
More NSA Spying Fallout: Groklaw Shutting Down

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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Bad earnings for Barnes & Noble: Nook revenues plunge 20%; Riggio won't take stores private — In the past quarter, Barnes & Noble's CEO resigned, and the company announced it would stop manufacturing tablets in-house as a way to cut heavy losses in the Nook division.

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Carl Franzen / The Verge:
Barnes & Noble clarifies Nook hardware isn't dead: more, lower cost e-readers are coming

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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

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John McDermott / AdAge:

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Brian Morrissey / Digiday:

Justin Smith's Blueprint for Modern Media — The path of modern media is anything but direct. — Justin Smith, the new CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is emerging as one of the trailblazers. His track record at The Economist, The Week and, most recently, The Atlantic suggests a willingness …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

Hearst Lays Off Top Digital Editors — Top editors in Hearst's digital division will be laid off today, a source familiar with the company's plans told Mashable. — Amina Akhtar, editor of Elle.com, and Abby Gardner, digital director of Cosmopolitan magazine, have both received layoff notices.

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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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