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

9:30 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: @wblau, @conor64 and @niemanlab

David Carr / New York Times:

War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist — A disgruntled loner with access to military secrets comes across documents that pull back the veil on government actions in a lost war and decides for a variety of reasons, some noble and some personal, to share them with the world.

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: @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 …

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
ProPublica Joins NSA Chase

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

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

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Softpedia News

Robert Lipsyte / ESPN:

Was ESPN sloppy, naive or compromised? — So what's more damaging to a corporate image: to be considered sloppy, naïve or compromised? Or all three? You get to pick in the wake of ESPN's announcement Thursday that it was removing its brand from an upcoming two-part documentary by PBS's …

Discussion: Forbes, TVNewser, FishbowlNY, @carlzimmer, @tvnewslab, Deadline.com, @espn_lipsyte and eMedia Vitals

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review: ESPN's journalism problem

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

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

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: @nycjim, @chasedavis, Politico, @drewconway, @cblatts, @drewlinzer, @bindersab, @majorcbs, @zackbeauchamp and @jayrosen_nyu

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

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

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

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

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

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