Mediagazer: Late Digital Rights Activist, International Access to Knowledge Advocate, and NSA Spying … (Rebecca Jeschke/Electronic Frontier …)

7:35 AM ET, August 22, 2013

Top News:

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Committee to Protect …, The New Yorker Blog, msnbc.com, @wikileaks, @titocurtis, Kirk LaPointe's …, The Inquisitr, Ars Technica, Pressing Issues, Macleans.ca and whistleblower.org

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Bradley Manning Sentence Gets Relatively Paltry Coverage On News Networks — Bradley Manning's sentencing on Wednesday received about as much attention from the cable news networks that every other phase of his trial did — that is to say, not a whole lot. — As they did when he was …

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

Discussion: @tzintzuncris

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Fox News firing tied to Ailes book — The decision last month by Fox News chief Roger Ailes to fire his top communications executive, Brian Lewis, was due to a number of factors, including what the network's parent company 21st Century Fox has described as “financial irregularities” and breaches of contract.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News, FishbowlDC, Gretawire, @mlcalderone, @dylanbyers, @kenvogel and The Wrap

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Brian Lewis Talks About his Fox News Firing

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Politico, @mmfa, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Fox News Sources Hit Back At Gabriel Sherman And Brian Lewis

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, The Corsair, @mmfa, @kbsmoke, Politico and Inside Cable News

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 …

Heidi Moore / Guardian:

Bloomberg forced to act after reports detail lapses over client data access — News organisation to put in place recommendations after report found Bloomberg journalists had access to private client data — Bloomberg is to change its corporate policies to maintain distance between its news …

Discussion: Forbes, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News, Media & Entertainment and @asmitch

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.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Huffington Post

Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
CBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Truce Over Debates

Discussion: @zseward and New York Magazine

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.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, IC ON THE RECORD, @digiphile, @digiphile, @marcambinder, PC World, @penenberg, The Verge and ZDNet

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

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Washington Post, Techdirt, Los Angeles Times, @bartongellman, @odnigov, The Inquisitr, The Switch, VentureBeat, USA Today, Fox News, The Atlantic Wire, CNN, Gizmodo and Politico

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 …

Discussion: The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Quartz, @yahootech, @efeng, Pocket-lint, @andyfixmer, The Next Web, App Advice and Electronista

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.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, @journalistslike, @shelbygrad, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and The Informer

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.

Discussion: Facebook Developer Blog, Mashable, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Marketing Land and GigaOM

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 …

Discussion: Baltimore Sun, Co.Labs, @rolandsmartin, @kirstinestewart and @anupkaphle

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera English Receiving ‘Thousands’ Of Complaints From Viewers

Discussion: Washington Post and GigaOM

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 …

Discussion: @trevortimm, Harper's, @billmon1, @stavsherez, @seanhdoyle, @richard_lopes, National Security and TechCrunch

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.

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.

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 …

Discussion: GamePolitics blogs

Richard Sambrook / CNN:

Press and state collide in bullying of reporter's partner — Editor's note: Richard Sambrook is professor of journalism at Cardiff University in the UK. He is a former director of global news for the BBC. — (CNN) — British journalism is under siege. With no settlement yet …

Discussion: Press Gazette and PRI's The World

Beejoli Shah / Gawker:

Nikki Finke May Finally Be Out At Deadline — Nikki Finke, once heralded as the industry's most powerful muckity-muck and “Hollywood's reigning queen of entertainment news,” may be leaving the site that is synonymous with her outsize personality come next month.

Discussion: @busblog, Kate Aurthur, @ckrewson and @awallenstein