Mediagazer: The Monkey Cage joins The Washington Post in a Wonkbloggy, 538ish deal (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

10:15 PM ET, August 26, 2013

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

To make journalism harder, slower, less secure — That's what the surveillance state is trying to do. It has the means, the will and the latitude to go after journalism the way it went after terrorism. Only a more activist press, working together, stands a chance of resisting this.

Discussion: GigaOM, @wblau, @conor64, Free Press and @niemanlab

Laura Poitras / Spiegel Online:

Miranda Detention: ‘Blatant Attack on Press Freedom’ — The detention of David Miranda — partner of the Guardian journalist involved in the NSA revelations — and the destruction of hard drives in the British newspaper's basement reveal one thing: Governments do not want their citizens …

Discussion: @pandymonium01, @astradisastra, @runasand, @aljavieera, @kenroth and emptywheel

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body

Discussion: @arusbridger, @aidanpwhite, The Huffington Post and Kirk LaPointe's …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Defends Hard Drive Destruction, But Not Miranda Detention

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Softpedia News

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
ProPublica Joins NSA Chase

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, The Huffington Post, @sirajdatoo, @joshuafoust, @antderosa, @treisiroon and New York Times

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

ESPN's journalism problem — A network's massive conflicts emphasize the need for media independence — Just recently, the Boston Red Sox's parent company bought the Boston Globe, and the head of the dominant online retailer with many regulatory interests bought the capital's leading paper, The Washington Post.

Robert Lipsyte / ESPN:
Was ESPN sloppy, naive or compromised?

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Dave Zirin / The Nation:
ESPN Journalists Speak Out on Concussion Documentary

Discussion: @timkarr, @katrinanation, @richarddeitsch, Sports Illustrated and emptywheel

John Sides / The Monkey Cage:

The Monkey Cage Is Moving to the Washington Post — We are very pleased to announce that The Monkey Cage is going to become part of the Washington Post. After 5+ years of writing and growing as an independent blog, we think that the Post offers a tremendous opportunity both to increase …

Discussion: The Wrap, @theplumlinegs, @nycjim, @chasedavis, Politico, @drewlinzer, @bindersab, @cblatts, @drewconway, @majorcbs, @zackbeauchamp and @jayrosen_nyu

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Monkey Cage joins The Washington Post in a Wonkbloggy, 538ish deal — I like this deal. John Sides: … The Monkey Cage is a group blog of political scientists; I think of it as being similar in style to the economist bloggers whose profile have risen over the past five years or so …

Discussion: @ericachenoweth, @jimtankersley and @niemanlab

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Howard Kurtz Announces New Fox Sunday Show, Media Buzz — On Monday afternoon, former Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz announced his new Fox News show, Media Buzz, which will debut on September 8th at 11 a.m. — “The one-hour show will focus on the state of the news media in addition …

Discussion: TVNewser, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Variety, @howardkurtz, The Wrap, Erik Wemple, Hollywood Reporter and Politico

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Following NewsBeast Mess, What's Tina Brown's Next Act? — Now that IAC/Interactive has sold off Newsweek, can Tina Brown's act be nearing its end? — The experiment to combine Newsweek and Daily Beast was an acknowledged failure. Brown was the founding editor of the Beast …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @niemanlab and The Huffington Post

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:

Open Secret About Google's Surveillance Case No Longer Secret — The Justice Department recently won a court battle to keep an Internet company from talking about federal demands for user data, arguing that even disclosing the company's name would damage national security.'

Discussion: @ramez, @mattcutts, Daily Dot, CNET, @occupywallstnyc, ZDNet, @antderosa, Techdirt and The Verge

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Reader Alternative Feedly Opens Pro Access To All — Earlier this month, Google Reader replacement Feedly began offering a paid version of its service, but only in limited quantities. Barely a day after the paid tier became available, the company sold out of the introductory 5,000 Pro accounts it had initially offered.

Discussion: GigaOM, Engadget and CNET

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Times-Shamrock puts several papers on the market — Times-Shamrock will put several daily papers and some alt-weeklies up for sale, the Times-Shamrock-owned (Scranton, Pa.) Times-Tribune reports. … Cribb, Greene and Associates will handle the sale.

Discussion: The Times-Tribune and Talking New Media

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case — In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice's revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case.

Discussion: MacRumors, Publishers Lunch and TUAW

Carl Marcucci / Radio & Television Business Report:

Piolin sues former staffers over extortion — Former Univision Radio-syndicated Spanish-language star Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo filed a civil extortion lawsuit 8/26 against six former Univision employees and their LA attorneys for attempting to “shake him down” for nearly $5 million by threatening …

Discussion: LA Observed

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

Dick Gordon leaving public radio's ‘The Story’ — “The Story,” the nationally syndicated public radio news interview program produced at North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, will air for the last time on October 11. Long-time host Dick Gordon “plans to return to his native Canada …

Discussion: WUNC, @alexschelldorf, @smalljones, @babesofnpr, @tweetreinhard, @shiplives and @wunc

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Feds: Keep no-reporter's-privilege ruling — The Justice Department urged a federal appeals court Monday not to disturb a ruling last month rejecting the notion of a reporter's privilege in criminal cases, but a top official said the department has not made a final decision yet about whether …

Discussion: @joshgerstein and NPR