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4:40 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.
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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.
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:   This Is The Only Thing You Need To Read About Apple And Televisions Right Now
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Chill out, DRM's not the reason that guy lost his (public domain) Google ebooks  —  In a story making the rounds on the internet, a Georgetown professor lost a bunch of books he'd downloaded from Google when he traveled to Singapore.  But this isn't an example of DRM run amok.
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Meghan Neal / Motherboard:
Do You Ever Own Your E-Books?  —  A few days ago, a Georgetown professor traveling to Singapore noticed that as soon as he crossed over the border, the Google Play app on his iPad updated and wiped out all the e-books he owned—between 30 and 40 books.  —  Since the Google Play bookstore …
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
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times experiments with tweetable highlights in ‘SNL’ story  —  Dave Itzkoff's oral history of “Saturday Night Live” auditions has a new feature for a New York Times article page: highlighted sentences that you can click to tweet.  —  “It's a one-off experiment on this story,” …
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.
Discussion: Techdirt
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
How ESPN Could Help Make Over-The-Top TV A Reality  —  If there's one thing the television industry believes viewers will never agree to do without, it's live sports.  That's why ESPN is able to charge cable and satellite distributors so much more per household than any other channel …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Federated Media Launching Native and Programmatic Ad Service Blend  —  Aims to bring direct marketing qualities to custom content services.  —  When publishers latch onto something, they tend to take all the way.  With content, it's publish anywhere, anytime.
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.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Pandora Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $162M For Its Last Quarter Before iTunes Radio  —  Streaming radio platform Pandora just released its second quarter earnings, and they largely beat the street's expectations.  Total revenue increased 58 percent year over year to $162 million.
Discussion: Forbes and MSN Money
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC payoffs caused divide between managers and staff, admits Tony Hall  —  Broadcaster's director general says he understands anger at severance payments but defends high salaries for ‘right people’  —  The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has admitted that six-figure payoffs given to the corporation's …
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
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 …
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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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Is Yahoo's Mayer Turning Into a Media Mogul With Katie Couric Web Video Deal?
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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Discussion: Reuters and @gemini2359
Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:
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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
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Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Netflix reaches 1.5m UK subscribers for its internet video service
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Ishbel Macleod / The Drum:
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Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
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Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Men's Journal Publisher Chris McLoughlin Moves Over to Rolling Stone
Discussion: AdAge and MinOnline
Charles Poladian / International Business Times:
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