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6:50 AM ET, August 23, 2013

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Why ESPN Backed Out of a Concussions Investigation With ‘Frontline’ — “Frontline,” the prestigious, multiple-Emmy-winning investigative news show produced by Boston's PBS member station, announced late Thursday afternoon that a 15-month-old partnership with ESPN in which they published …

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John Koblin / Deadspin:

ESPN Pulls Out Of Frontline Concussion Investigation [UPDATE] — For a while now, ESPN's big alibi, the thing Bristol would trot out any time someone questioned the company's journalistic bona fides, was its joint investigation into NFL head injuries with PBS's Frontline. Now that's done with.

Discussion: SBNation.com, Los Angeles Times, Variety, @shinguardian, @deadspin, @brianstelter and @dangillmor

PBS:

A Note from FRONTLINE: ESPN and “League of Denial” — You may notice some changes to our League of Denial and Concussion Watch websites. From now on, at ESPN's request, we will no longer use their logos and collaboration credit on these sites and on our upcoming film League of Denial …

The Independent:

Exclusive: Edward Snowden leaks reveal UK's secret Middle-East web surveillance base — Data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn internet project still being assembled by GCHQ — Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities …

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Kim Sengupta / The Independent: Agencies should not be upset if we reveal that they run a listening centre in the Middle East

Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:

Sources: Koch Industries not buying LA Times, Chicago Tribune — Koch Industries will not be buying the Tribune Company's eight newspapers, which include the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, The Daily Caller has learned. — Sources with knowledge of the business proceedings told …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, USA Today, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, @obrien, @saramorrison, New York Times, @michaelpilla, Hollywood Reporter, @shortformernie, Politico, @ctironman, @thedcvince, @carlzimmer and Reuters

Free Press: Koch's Loss a Win for Local Communities

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

What the Media Owes to Bradley Manning — Yesterday, former U.S. soldier Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified U.S. government documents to Wikileaks. Journalists and news outlets owe Manning more than gratitude.

Discussion: New York Times, @mlcalderone, @carr2n, Los Angeles Times, @id4ro, @firetomfriedman, @federico_garca, @nicoleperlroth, FishbowlNY, The Lede and TechCrunch

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Bradley Manning news raises questions about how to refer to transgender people in stories

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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman

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,” …

Discussion: New York Times, @franzstrasser, @harrisj, @eric_andersen, @derekwillis, @girljournalist, @carr2n, Business Insider, @poynter, PopWatch, The Verge and The Hairpin

Dave Seyler / Radio & Television Business Report:

NAB counters ACA request for FCC standstill rule — American Cable Association leader Matt Polka sent a letter to Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn asking that the Commission take steps to prevent program blackouts during retransmission consent negotiation impasses.

Discussion: Variety and Broadcasting & Cable

Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS Extends Verizon FiOS Deal, as Time Warner Cable Blackout Continues

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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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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

ThaiPublica: Investigative journalism and ‘cute’ interactives — A look at an investigative news site for Thailand inspired by ProPublica — ThaiPublica looks to uncover stories relating to the government, business and finance — Copyright: Image by katerha on Flickr. Some rights reserved

Free Press:

Good Luck Trying to Watch Al Jazeera America — Much excitement and fanfare heralded the debut of Al Jazeera America, but you may want to pause before you celebrate the arrival of this new journalistic venture. — See, the launch of the channel is one thing. Actually being able to view it is another.

Discussion: Media Channel, @jcstearns, @dangillmor and Forbes

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 it largely beat the street's expectations. Total revenue increased 58 percent year-over-year to $162 million.

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Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:

Little mag, big ideas — It's not easy being a little magazine. But The New Inquiry, an online journal and monthly magazine of culture and politics, is making it look easy. “We have no paywall, no advertisers, no benefactors, and we're creative commons,” said 27-year-old editor in chief Rachel Rosenfelt.

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.

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

This Is The Only Thing You Need To Read About Apple And Televisions Right Now — Apple television! — There's a new report today that Apple is talking to content companies about doing channels as apps on a television set. Or not. It also really wants to work with cable companies.