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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
The Suit in the Newsroom — An unusual Times executive— for unusual times. — When Mark Thompson, a former director general at the BBC, was appointed president and CEO of the New York Times Company, the reaction inside the company was a mix of relief and apprehension.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
5 Takeaways from New York Magazine's Profile of the New York Times — From Nate Silver's departure to David Carr's license to gab, here's what New York Magazine dug up about NYT's new CEO Mark Thompson — New York Magazine's profile of New York Times CEO Mark Thompson came out on Friday …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
New York Times And Guardian Will Publish More Snowden Revelations — “A climate of intense pressure.” — Brad Barket / Getty Images — The New York Times is in the Snowden game. — The paper — which NSA leaker Edward Snowden deliberately avoided over his fear that it would cooperate …
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Guardian:
Surveillance and the state: this way the debate goes on | Editorial — Thanks to Edward Snowden, the world now has a debate about the dramatic change in the contract between state and citizen — “Spies spy! Who knew?” Thus the world-weary shrug from too many people who ought …
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
UK government given Tuesday deadline over David Miranda data
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography … Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. He had just one meeting to go. — That meeting was a board meeting to be held that day in a large conference room …
Adam Pasick / Quartz:
Summer song lawsuit exposes the “Blurred Lines” of the US copyright system — The hit summer single “Blurred Lines” melds a bouncy bass line, syncopated cowbell, and the silky falsetto of singer Robin Thicke into an R&B jam that channels the 1970s grooves of Marvin Gaye—especially his song “Got to Give It Up.”
Michele Weldon / Quartz:
Doctors and teachers deserve more confidentiality than journalists? — Like it or not, the honored tradition of confidentiality runs to the core of American government, enterprise, and society. — The purpose of 8,000 acres in the Nevada desert was kept top secret for decades …
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig — EFF has filed a second lawsuit over a “bogus” takedown, hoping for better results. — Illegitimate or simply unnecessary copyright claims are, unfortunately, commonplace in the Internet era.
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Richard Lea / Guardian:
Why are publishers the new villain in the digital age? — As Amazon tears down the gates around literary culture, even independents are caught in the crossfire — Perched on the end of a panel filled with writers who are throwing off the shackles of conventional publishing …
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Reuters:
ESPN denies it quit head injuries documentary over NFL ties — ESPN said it has pulled out of a documentary with PBS' “Frontline” about head injuries in the National Football League, but the Walt Disney co-owned sports network denied a media report that its decision was due to pressure from the NFL.
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Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
NFL Players Union Rips ESPN: ‘Sad Day’ For Journalism
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
For MTV, making VMAs a most-tweeted event is so 2012 — For MTV's Video Music Awards, tabulating a number of tweets is so passe. For this year's award show, which is set to air Sunday, another record level of social engagement is a foregone conclusion for the Viacom youth-culture cable channel.
Good News from Finland:
Finnish media develop new digital paper — Five Finnish media companies are collaborating with TIVIT Next Media research programme to test a new kind of ePaper reader solution that is charged by ambient or natural light. — The solution will be piloted for newspaper distribution to hundreds of users in November.
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Mat Honan / Wired:
Comment Sections Are Wastelands Ruled by Trolls. Here Are Alternatives — Online comments are trollish and broken. Luckily, there are some great alternatives. Illustration: Tavis Coburn — A decade or more ago, Internet publishers entered into what now seems like a collective delusion …
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Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Magazines, Newspapers Brace for Exigent Postal Rate Hike — Magazines, newspapers and direct marketers are girding for the possibility that the U.S. Postal Service will pass an exigent rate increase on top of the annual postal rate that is capped by the consumer price index.
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Citing Steve Jobs email, DOJ claims Apple changed in-app purchase to retaliate against Amazon — In the Apple ebooks case, the federal government wants to change the way that Apple does business — not just for ebooks, but in all content markets. — The DOJ on Friday filed a revised proposed remedy …
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Anil Dash / Medium:
What Medium Is — Think YouTube, not Blogger. Hard Knocks, not Harvard. — If you enjoy this piece, please support my campaign to bring clean water to the region of Orissa, India where my family is from. A donation of just $45 can bring one person safe water for life.
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
What Is Medium? — The site from Twitter's co-founders …
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Josh Stearns / Mediashift:
Lessons from Manning and Miranda: Press Freedom Advocates Must Fight Back — After British authorities detained the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald for nine hours and forced the Guardian, where Greenwald works, to destroy its computers, the Columbia Journalism Review declared this a …
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