Mediagazer: Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail (Alexander Zaitchik/Rolling Stone)

3:05 AM ET, September 9, 2013

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A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link — Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, @nickkristof, @carr2n, @mlcalderone and @ggreenwald

Alexander Zaitchik / Rolling Stone:

Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail — But no one can figure out what law he broke. Introducing America's least likely political prisoner — By — The mid-June sun is setting on the Mansfield jail near Dallas when Barrett Brown, the former public face of Anonymous …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

POLITICO publisher buys Capital New York — In an ambitious play for the New York market, POLITICO publisher Robert Allbritton has purchased the online news site Capital New York, with plans to make “a substantial investment” in the business and more than quadruple staff.

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Coming this fall: A new and improved Capital — This is going to allow us to get bigger and better. — Here's what we're doing now: — Hiring more people: This will bring you more stories from more reporters and editors on topics central to the mission of a website dedicated to explaining how New York works.

Discussion: @tmcgev

Graeme Wood / Businessweek:

Univision's English-Language News Network, Fusion, Targets Millennials — Isaac Lee, the Colombia-born 42-year-old in charge of news at the Spanish-language network Univision, is a traitor: first to his native tongue, and second to his generation. As the architect of the forthcoming …

Discussion: TVNewser

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.

Discussion: @rajunarisetti

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

The Data-Driven Future Of Journalism — Everyone seems to assume that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, spent $250 million on the Washington Post as some kind of hobby or charitable move. And some question whether he even has a plan on how he'll run the newspaper.

Discussion: @stevebuttry and @joegermuska

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Coming out from under a cloud, Howard Kurtz debuts his new show, as host-hunt continues for his old one — Howard Kurtz debuted his new 11 a.m. Sunday show, “Media Buzz,” on Fox News today, marking the veteran media critic's first big moment back in the spotlight following his ignominious exit …

Discussion: TVNewser, Erik Wemple and Reliable Sources

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Storyful verifies social media video from Syria — A Dublin-based company sorts out the real from the bogus in video on social media from Syria and other venues. — CONNECT — Covering the violence in Syria has been a staggering challenge for the world's news organizations.

Discussion: @sarahkeb

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.

Discussion: @megreenwell

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.

Discussion: @pbsmediashift

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.

Discussion: @bryandfischer and @pkafka