Mediagazer: Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along (Quartz)

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.

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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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
What the Media Owes to Bradley Manning

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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 …

Discussion: Poynter, @sarahw, GigaOM, @mcsole, @impose, @jonahweiner, @joehagansays, @emilygould, @steven_hyden, @marathonpacks and bookforum.com

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

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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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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 …