Mediagazer: Bradley Manning to request pardon from Obama over 35-year jail sentence (Paul Lewis/Guardian)

11:25 AM ET, August 22, 2013

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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:

Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email — Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. — “I am Chelsea Manning.

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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Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Bradley Manning to request pardon from Obama over 35-year jail sentence

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BBC:

High Court restricts inspection of David Miranda data — Only partial examination of material seized from a Brazilian man held at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws can take place, judges have ruled. — David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian journalist who exposed secret information …

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Sky News:

David Miranda: Data Prompts Police Probe — Mr Miranda (R), partner of Glenn Greenwald, was held at Heathrow — Police have launched a criminal investigation after examining material seized from the partner of a journalist who was held under UK terror laws.

Richard Sambrook / CNN:
Press and state collide in bullying of reporter's partner

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
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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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Gene Maddaus / LA Weekly:

Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted — In April, a man named Erin Walker Markland drove off a mountain road near Santa Cruz and was killed. The woman who had planned to marry him, Jordanna Thigpen, was devastated.

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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 …

Heidi Moore / Guardian:
Bloomberg forced to act after reports detail lapses over client data access

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Quartz:

Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along — Years of halting negotiating with cable companies haven't gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promising.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks trial over phone-hacking charges delayed — Former News International chief executive, Andy Coulson and six others will appear in court at end of October — The trial of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been delayed by seven weeks.

H. Drew Blackburn / NOISEY:

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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:

FBI suspected William Vollmann was the Unabomber — The celebrated writer William Vollmann has revealed that the FBI once thought he might be the Unabomber, the anthrax mailer and a terrorist training with the Afghan mujahideen. — In the September issue of Harper's magazine …

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Ishbel Macleod / The Drum:

Digital to account for 25% of total media ad spend in 2013, eMarketer finds, with mobile up 95% — Digital ad spend is set to grow to $42.26bn this year, and will account for 24.7 per cent of total media ad spending this year, according to eMarketer's latest estimates on US ad spending.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Aims To Be A News Source By Now Letting Everyone Embed Public Posts — With hashtags, trending topics, verified profiles, and now the ability for anyone to embed public posts on external websites, Facebook is making a big push to become a primary source of real-time news, both for journalists and readers.

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Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

MPAA, Internet Giants Take Piracy Battle to U.S. Patent Office — The agency had asked for comment on how to best measure success with combatting piracy — The Motion Picture Association of America and major internet companies on Wednesday rebooted their long-running fight …

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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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fox News firing tied to Ailes book

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Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional — Update: In response to EFF's FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional. — For over a year, EFF has been fighting …