Mediagazer: Bad earnings for Barnes & Noble: Nook revenues plunge 20%; Riggio won't take stores private (Laura Hazard Owen/GigaOM)

12:10 PM ET, August 20, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all 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 …

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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.

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”.

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

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

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Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel:
David Miranda's detention was entirely legitimate

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

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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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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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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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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Exclusive : Conde Nast launches new subscriber service with Amazon — (Reuters) - Magazine publisher Conde Nast announced a major partnership with Amazon on Tuesday in which the Internet retailer will handle print and digital subscriptions for its stable of glossy publications like Vogue, Wired and Vanity Fair.

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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

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Netflix Named Exclusive U.S. Subscription TV Service for The Weinstein Company Films — The first-run partnership will begin in 2016 — Netflix and The Weinstein Company announced Tuesday a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service …

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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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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

Quitting the Internet Isn't the Answer — Someone is quitting the Internet for a whole year again, which is becoming a regular desire among those who spending the majority of their waking hours in front of a blinking computer screen. Maybe these folks should opt for something less drastic and dramatic, though.

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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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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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