Mediagazer: China Releases Reporter Jailed in Yahoo Email Case (Associated Press)

9:00 AM ET, September 8, 2013

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Girish Gupta / USA Today:

Venezuela's newspapers running out of paper to print — CARACAS, Venezuela — “This city has grown up around this newspaper,” says Antonio Briceño, the editor of La Antorcha, a newspaper in Venezuela's eastern city of El Tigre. “But the problem is getting worse every day.

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Associated Press:

China Releases Reporter Jailed in Yahoo Email Case — A Chinese reporter who was sentenced to prison in 2005 after Yahoo Inc. disclosed details of his email has been released, a writer's group announced Sunday. — Shi Tao was released Aug. 23, 15 months before the end of his sentence …

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Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:

War reporting for amateurs — I confess that I've been watching all the coverage of Amanda Lindhout's book with a bit of chagrin. Lindhout, who traveled to Somalia as an aspiring journalist in 2008, was kidnapped along with her photographer companion and their guides.

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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:

Where Julian Assange Lies in Wait—and What He's Planning Next — Julian Assange hasn't set foot outside Ecuador's London embassy in more than a year—avoiding extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault. But physical confinement seems only to enhance his reach.

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Bill Carter / New York Times:

Bold Play by CBS Fortifies Broadcasters — Leslie Moonves, the longtime chief executive of CBS, has heard the jokes about CBS being old and out of step because of the age of its audience and because it does not have enormous assets in the cable network world.

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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:

7 insights into social strategy at The Economist — As The Economist celebrates its 170th anniversary this month, we look at how it has adapted in the digital and social age — Copyright: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — The Economist is celebrating 170 years since …

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Jeremy Greenfield / Mediashift:

The Rise of ‘Hybrid Authors’ Who Have Self-Published and Had Publishers — The rise of self-publishing as a viable economic model for authors has started to disrupt the book publishing business — and nobody has benefited more than so-called “hybrid authors.” Allow me to explain.

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Jack Shafer:

The NSA never takes “no” for an answer — At several recent junctures, the U.S. government has publicly sought to expand its power and control over the electronic privacy of its citizens. At each point, the government was roundly foiled by the public and the majority of the political class, which rebuked it.

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Activists call on N.Y. Times, ProPublica to release unredacted NSA information

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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

The five big decisions facing Bezos at WaPo — When Jeff Bezos takes control of The Washington Post in a few short weeks, the Amazon founder will face five enormous decisions that will shape the future of an iconic newspaper once so powerful that it drove President Richard M. Nixon from office.

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

A weakened Washington Post, a serious ethical breach — Erik Wemple breaks a huge media-corruption story for the Washington Post, and unfortunately for his employer, it's about the Post itself. — This is just about as bad as it gets, and it's mitigated only slightly by the fact the Post allowed Wemple to publish his tough piece.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Judge won't grant injunction in Las Vegas Sun editor's suit — U.S. District Court Judge James C. Mahan Friday dismissed a request by Las Vegas Sun Editor and Publisher Brian Greenspun to block a plan to end the Sun's joint operating agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Howard Stutz reports.

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