Mediagazer: Disney's ESPN Holds Preliminary Talks for Web-Based TV (Bloomberg)

12:40 PM 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.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Bradley Manning news raises questions about how to refer to transgender people in stories — Television reporters “weren't immediately sure how to tell” the story of Bradley Manning's announcement on “Today” that he identifies as a woman and will seek hormone therapy, Brian Stelter writes.

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Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:
Manning's Sentence, Miranda's Detention

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

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BBC:

David Miranda: High Court restricts inspection of data — Material seized from a Brazilian man held at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws can only be examined for national security purposes, judges say. — An injunction stops government and police “inspecting, copying or sharing” …

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Sky News: David Miranda: Data Prompts Police Probe

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

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

CBS Extends Verizon FiOS Deal, as Time Warner Cable Blackout Continues — Three-year pact covers telco's retransmission of local stations in N.Y., L.A. and Dallas, expands CBS Sports Network carriage — As Time Warner Cable has refused to budge on CBS's distribution demands …

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Lisa de Moraes / Deadline.com:
CBS Chairman Lesllie Moonves: Time Warner Cable Offered Deal Verizon Just Signed

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CBS And Time Warner Cable Strike Temporary Deal... To Air NYC Debates

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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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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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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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Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

Geoffrey Ingersoll / Business Insider:
NSA Releases Court Opinion On ‘Unconstitutional’ Scooping Of Domestic Emails

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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.

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H. Drew Blackburn / NOISEY:

What Ever Happened to the Best Music Writing Series? — Starting in 2000, Da Capo Press published the Best Music Writing series, eventually dropping it in 2011. Shortly thereafter, long-time editor and decorated music critic Daphne Carr responded by founding a music-centric publishing house …

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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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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.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Why Web TV Skeptic Mark Cuban Thinks Google Can Make the NFL Work on the Web — If Google ends up getting the rights to stream NFL games over the Web, could the Web handle it? — That is: Is America's Internet infrastructure capable of letting millions of people watch the same football games …

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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Ecuador Seeks To Criminalize Publishing Classified Documents — The protector of Julian Assange and one-time preferred destination of Edward Snowden is trying to outlaw WikiLeaks-style activity. — Ecuador's President Rafael Correa delivers a speech in a national broadcasting conference at Carondelet Palace in Quito August 15, 2013.

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 …