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8:45 AM ET, August 22, 2013

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BBC:
Limited injunction for David Miranda over data seizure  —  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 Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, has been granted a limited injunction at the High Court.
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Richard Sambrook / CNN:
Press and state collide in bullying of reporter's partner
Discussion: Press Gazette and PRI's The World
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.
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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.
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Bradley Manning to request pardon from Obama over 35-year jail sentence
Discussion: @tzintzuncris
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
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 …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
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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Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
CBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Truce Over Debates
Discussion: @zseward and New York Magazine
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: AdAge and MinOnline
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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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera English Receiving ‘Thousands’ Of Complaints From Viewers
Discussion: Washington Post and GigaOM
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Late Digital Rights Activist, International Access to Knowledge Advocate, and NSA Spying Journalists Win EFF Pioneer Awards  —  EFF to Honor Aaron Swartz, James Love, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras Next Month in San Francisco Ceremony  —  San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Netflix reaches 1.5m UK subscribers for its internet video service  —  Analysts say hits including House of Cards and Breaking Bad have helped on-demand service gain ground  —  Netflix, the internet video service which has set out to replace traditional TV channels, has reached an estimated 1.5 million paying subscribers in the UK.
 
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Bill Mickey / Folio:
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Washington Free Beacon:
Gay Reporter Kicked Off Kremlin Network After Protesting Anti-Gay Law
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Layoffs to hit Disney/ABC TV Group
Discussion: Variety, @tvnewslab, Reuters and TVSpy
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Huffington Post to end anonymous comments
Gabriela Baczynska / Reuters:
Russia criticizes Britain over pressure on Guardian
Discussion: New York Times