Mediagazer: For Journalists, More Firepower to Protect Sources and Secrets (David Carr/New York Times)

10:55 AM ET, September 30, 2013

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For Journalists, More Firepower to Protect Sources and Secrets — Earlier this year, federal investigators secretly obtained two months of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press, including calls on their home phones and cellphones. They did so without providing notice …

Discussion: @cryptomeorg, @carr2n, @mathewi, @kgosztola, @jswatz and The Newspaper Guild

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week — Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan. The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Insider, @zseward, DealBook, Guardian, bizjournals, CNET, @qz and Digits

Steven Mufson / Washington Post:

As Jeff Bezos prepares to take over, a look at forces that shaped The Washington Post sale — On April 4, Donald E. Graham sat for a videotaped interview about how the Internet and digital technology had hammered and transformed the news business. Cradling a coffee cup emblazoned with the word …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @aburnspolitico, @alecmacgillis, @snolen, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffreygoldberg, @mathewi, @carr2n, Poynter and Riptide

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

CNN's Hillary Clinton Movie Has Been Canceled, Director Says — The planned documentary on Hillary Clinton that caused CNN to be banned from 2016 Republican debates has been canceled, its director said on Monday. — In a blog for HuffPost, Charles Ferguson said that it was a near total stonewalling …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Politico, Mediaite, TVNewser, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Caller and Variety

Wall Street Journal:

DirecTV to Help Finance Indie Films — Deal With Independent Studio A24 Includes Early Rights to Video on Demand — DirecTV is taking a step into the movie-financing business. — The satellite operator struck a deal with startup movie studio A24 Inc. to partner with it in acquiring independent films …

Discussion: Deadline.com, Variety and @stevesi

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks …

Discussion: GigaOM, Fast Company, The Verge, Vanity Fair, Engadget, @isaach, @pkafka, The Next Web, VatorNews and Softpedia News

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

News: Personalized or Serendipitous? — Every digital news designer faces the question: should the traditional serendipity of contents be preserved or should we go full steam for personalization? It turns out Google is already working on ways to combine both — on its usual grand scale.

Discussion: @dkiesow, @rajunarisetti and @bgrueskin

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of selling more stuff — It's a certified trend: Thanks to digital media, we're consuming more stuff. — This week, we saw the fairly astounding news that mobile minutes are doubling the amount of time Americans are spending online, with smartphone and tablet usage the great multipliers.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, @rajunarisetti and @jayrosen_nyu

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Exclusive: ABC News Poaches Reuters Editor To Run Web Operations — Erle Norton will today be named Executive Producer of ABC News Digital, overseeing editorial and video operations across ABCNews.com. — patsdayfund.org / Via patsdayfund.org — ABC News president Ben Sherwood continues …

Discussion: ABC News and @peterlauria3

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Perilous Task of Innovation in a Digital Age — CRUISES. Conferences. New forms of advertising. Fancy multimedia storytelling. — The Gray Lady, as The New York Times has long been known, isn't as sedate as she used to be. The company is innovating like a house afire.

Discussion: @joemcgonegal, @alewnes, @steverubel, Kirk LaPointe's …, @carloslozadawp, @munaabusulayman and @sulliview

Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

Cameron accused of misleading Leveson on Brooks friendship — New book casts doubt over David Cameron's account to press inquiry over his personal ties with Rebekah Brooks — David Cameron gave misleading evidence to the Leveson inquiry over his friendship with the former News International …

Discussion: Press Gazette, mUmBRELLA, @exitthelemming and @magsnews

Ryan Holiday / Betabeat:

It's War: Scale and Intimacy Duke it Out in the Comments Section — One of the ironies of American “high societies” is that some of its most prestigious institutions were founded by members of what was, at the time, one of the lowliest professions: journalism.