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2:20 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.
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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.
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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Michael Holden / Reuters:
London police say disclosure of Snowden-linked data could risk lives  —  (Reuters) - London Police said on Thursday material seized from the partner of a journalist who has led coverage of Edward Snowden's leaks was “highly-sensitive” and, if disclosed, could put lives at risk.
Sky News:   David Miranda: Data Prompts Police Probe
Richard Sambrook / CNN:
Press and state collide in bullying of reporter's partner
Discussion: Press Gazette
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.
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
Discussion: AllThingsD
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
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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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
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Is Yahoo's Mayer Turning Into a Media Mogul With Katie Couric Web Video Deal?  —  According to numerous sources inside the company, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has turned her attentions of late to goosing the site's media efforts.  That includes personally shepherding a new deal to put …
Discussion: Gawker
Anna Merlan / Village Voice:
The New York Review of Books Publishes Mostly Men, Responds to Criticism With Condescending Form Letter  —  A graphic VIDA made in response to the NYRB's letter.  —  The New York Review of Books publishes mostly men, and in that, they're not alone, joined by pretty much every major print magazine in this country.
Discussion: @sarahw and @tessastuart
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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Bloomberg forced to act after reports detail lapses over client data access
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