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Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:
Manning's Sentence, Miranda's Detention — Bradley Manning has been sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Military prosecutors had asked for sixty years, out of a possible ninety; his lawyer, David Coombs, had asked for “a sentence that allows him to have a life.” Manning is twenty-five years old now.
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Committee to Protect …, msnbc.com, Guardian, @titocurtis, The New Yorker Blog, @wikileaks, The Inquisitr and Macleans.ca
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Networks Yawn Once More At Bradley Manning Story — Bradley Manning's sentencing on Wednesday received about as much attention from the cable news networks that every other phase of his trial did — that is to say, not a whole lot. — As they did when he was declared guilty …
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Bradley Manning to request pardon from Obama over 35-year jail sentence
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Associated Press
Washington Free Beacon:
Gay Reporter Kicked Off Kremlin Network After Protesting Anti-Gay Law
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Politico, TIME, Daily Dot, @bjheijne, Mediaite, BuzzFeed, @waterdrinkerp, @charliebeckett, The Huffington Post, @niktwick, msnbc.com, The Raw Story and Gawker
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison for WikiLeaks disclosures
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fox News firing tied to Ailes book — The decision last month by Fox News chief Roger Ailes to fire his top communications executive, Brian Lewis, was due to a number of factors, including what the network's parent company 21st Century Fox has described as “financial irregularities” and breaches of contract.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers and @kenvogel
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Brian Lewis Talks About his Fox News Firing — Brian Lewis, who spent the last 17 years as the chief spokesperson for Fox News, is himself speaking out about his firing from the network. Though, in classic PR style, just barely. — Lewis, who joined Fox News in April 1996 …
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FishbowlDC, The Wrap, Politico, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Fox News Sources Hit Back At Gabriel Sherman And Brian Lewis — Fox News sources are firing back against both Brian Lewis, the recently-fired Fox News executive vice president of communications widely reported to be Fox News chief Roger Ailes's right-hand man, and Gabriel Sherman …
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Corsair, @mmfa, @kbsmoke and Inside Cable News
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Fox Newsers Circle The Wagons Around Boss Roger Ailes After He Fires His “Right-Hand Man”
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@mmfa, @mattgertz and FishbowlDC
Bloomberg:
Disney's ESPN Holds Preliminary Talks for Web-Based TV — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports network has held preliminary talks to offer programming on a Web-based TV service like those proposed by Google Inc. (GOOG), Sony Corp. and Intel Corp. (INTC) — An Internet TV provider …
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The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Pocket-lint, @efeng, The Next Web, @andyfixmer and Electronista
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Why Web TV Skeptic Mark Cuban Thinks Google Can Make the NFL Work on the Web
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Los Angeles Times and Mashable
Heidi Moore / Guardian:
Bloomberg forced to act after reports detail lapses over client data access — News organisation to put in place recommendations after report found Bloomberg journalists had access to private client data — Bloomberg is to change its corporate policies to maintain distance between its news …
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Forbes, Poynter, Talking Biz News, FishbowlNY, Media & Entertainment and @asmitch
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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Bloomberg as the anti-News Corp. — Its transparent handling of snooping allegations starkly contrast with NewsCorp. cover-ups — The external review into how Bloomberg News staffers used and misused confidential client data available on Bloomberg LP terminals in their reporting turned …
Dara Kerr / CNET:
NSA and Intelligence Community turn to Tumblr — weird but true — In light of top-secret document leaks that show the U.S. government spied on people, the country's Director of National Intelligence launches a Tumblr blog for greater transparency. — Tumblr has a new blogger within its sphere: The U.S. Intelligence Community.
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The Atlantic Wire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, IC ON THE RECORD, PC World, @penenberg, @digiphile, @digiphile, @marcambinder, The Verge and ZDNet
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Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
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Washington Post, @trevortimm, @mgeist, @marshray, @dwlz, @holdenweb, @nick373, @mariabustillos, www.wnyc.org, @maassive, @declanm, The Verge, @declanm, Techdirt, ZDNet, @dellcam, @miriamelder, @emptywheel, @jaredbkeller, @ggreenwald, msnbc.com, @newsycombinator, The Switch, Associated Press, emptywheel and Boing Boing
Geoffrey Ingersoll / Business Insider:
NSA Releases Court Opinion On ‘Unconstitutional’ Scooping Of Domestic Emails
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Hillicon Valley, Washington Post, Techdirt, The Inquisitr, Los Angeles Times, The Switch, @bartongellman, USA Today, CNN, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, @odnigov, Politico, The Atlantic Wire, Fox News and ProPublica
Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
CBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Truce Over Debates … There's a temporary armistice - for the sake of democracy — in the ongoing dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable Inc. — CBS and Time Warner have agreed temporarily to lift the blackout on CBS to ensure as many New Yorkers as possible …
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@zseward and New York Magazine
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Wendy Davis / mediapost.com:
Former FCC Commissioner Bashes CBS For Web Blackout — Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas haven't been able to watch CBS on television for the last three weeks — since Aug. 2, when talks about retransmission fees broke down. That's not the only impact of the fee dispute.
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The Wrap and The Huffington Post
Ana Marie Cox / Guardian:
Al Jazeera America: the news channel Americans deserve — What Glenn Beck calls ‘the voice of the enemy’ must be worth a second look. And it is: cable news needs its in-depth journalism — Al Jazeera America debuted its first batch of original programming last night, to some fanfare …
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The Wrap, Baltimore Sun, BuzzFeed, Co.Labs, @rolandsmartin and @kirstinestewart
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera English Receiving ‘Thousands’ Of Complaints From Viewers
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Washington Post
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Huffington Post to end anonymous comments — The Huffington Post which has logged more than 260 million comments in its history will end anonymity in those comments, founder Arianna Huffington said Wednesday morning. — “Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier …
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GigaOM, Nieman Journalism Lab, @jeremyduns, @declanm, @jilliancyork, FishbowlNY, @xor, @anildash, Adrants, @niemanlab, @michaelroston, @jaredbkeller, @wideasleepnima, @dangillmor and @stefanjbecket
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Men's Journal Publisher Chris McLoughlin Moves Over to Rolling Stone — It was just last month that we were writing about the strategic alliance between Wenner Media's Fitness and Men's Journal. And how that deal quickly came together through the efforts of respective publishers Eric Schwarzkopf and Chris McLoughlin.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
News Corp Launches Global Private Ad Exchange — News Corp today announced plans to launch a global programmatic ad exchange that will let advertisers buy across its more than 50 online and mobile products including WSJ.com, Times.co.uk and NYPost.com. — The move is only the latest …
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News Corp, Media & Entertainment and AdAge
Arti Patel / Folio:
Mag+ and Appboy Partner to Offer Publishers an Expanded Mobile Platform — New tools include enhanced customer tracking and marketing. — Mag+ announced its partnership with Appboy Wednesday, bringing a new management platform to the company's various digital publishers looking to deepen reader relationships on mobile.
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Mag+
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Comcast says copyright threat to TorrentFreak an “error” — Internet giant Comcast claims that a legal threat directed at TorrentFreak was a mistake and that it has told the file-sharing news site to disregard it: — “This notice was sent in error, and we have advised TorrentFreak to disregard it.
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TorrentFreak, Poynter, The Switch, Mashable, VentureBeat, @xor, GigaOM, Boing Boing and @boothsweet
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Summit Business Media Reorganizes, Changes Name — Summit Professional Networks now aligned under three market verticals. — Summit Business Media is now called Summit Professional Networks. The name change reflects an effort over the last year and a half to group assets under …
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