Mediagazer: The Effects of Mass Surveillance on Journalism (Tow Center for Digital …)

5:00 PM ET, October 10, 2013

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Leonard Downie Jr / Committee to Protect Journalists:

The Obama Administration and the Press — Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America — U.S. President Barack Obama came into office pledging open government, but he has fallen short of his promise. Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure …

Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

The Effects of Mass Surveillance on Journalism — Mass surveillance of the kind practiced by the NSA produces a chilling effect on journalism, because sources do not feel they can have a private conversation with a reporter. That's the message of a group of scholars, journalists …

Discussion: @niemanlab, @evacide, @timkarr and Committee to Protect …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Obama Administration Has Gone To Unprecedented Lengths To Thwart Journalists, Report Finds — NEW YORK — Leonard Downie spent more than four decades at The Washington Post, including 17 years as the paper's top editor, and has heard plenty of grumbling from reporters blocked from access to government information.

Discussion: Poynter, Committee to Protect … and @ggreenwald

Ted Johnson / Variety:

Aereo Supreme Court Review: Broadcasters Will File Petition — Justices will have to choose between taking case or letting legal proceedings play out further Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo to continue offering unauthorized streams …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, The Verge, Forbes, Associated Press, Radio & Television …, GigaOM, AfterDawn.com, CNET, Consumerist, CNET, Engadget and Deadline.com

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Broadcasters Denied Injunction Against Aereo in Massachusetts — The ruling comes as stations are prepared to take the fight against the TV streaming service to the Supreme Court. — Aereo has won an important ruling in a Massachusetts federal court. — U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton …

Discussion: multichannel.com/rss, AdAge, Techdirt, CNET, Reuters, bizjournals, Variety and Plagiarism Today

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Aereo's TV streaming service coming to Android devices on October 22

Discussion: Marketwired, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Verge, The Next Web, @jeffjohnroberts and Broadcasting & Cable

Amy Hollyfield / PolitiFact:

PolitiFact to launch PunditFact, checking pundits and media figures — PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website of the Tampa Bay Times, will soon launch PunditFact, a site dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows.

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, Poynter, @asharock, @jayrosen_nyu, @jpodhoretz, @abeaujon, @justinwolfers, @amy_hollyfield and @thestalwart

Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News alums call for review of Bill Marimow's dismissal — Update: Philadelphia Inquirer co-owners Lewis Katz and Gerry Lenfest have sued their company over editor Bill Marimow's firing. The two say that publisher Bob Hall didn't consult them before dismissing Marimow.

Discussion: @romenesko, facebook.com, NewsWorks and Philadelphia City Paper

Associated Press:

2 Philly Inquirer owners sue company, publisher — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer have sued their company and publisher over the firing of Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Bill Marimow. Former New Jersey Nets owner Lewis Katz and cable TV mogul H.F. “Gerry” …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Newspapers plan EU legal action if they are penalised for regulation stance — Publishers fear increased costs in libel and privacy actions if they do not back government's royal charter-backed regulator — The country's largest newspaper groups plan to mount a European legal challenge …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Patrick Smith / The MediaBriefing:
The many unanswered questions of the UK's press regulation shambles

Discussion: Guardian and Big News Network.com

Guardian:
Press still plans self-regulation despite ministers' rejection, says Times editor

Discussion: Sky News, Media Law Prof Blog and Kirk LaPointe's …

AllThingsD:

Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News — Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she was the leading pick for the high-profile job.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Betabeat, GigaOM, Digits, The Verge, @andreahong, @edcauchi, @mikeisaac and Engadget

Ruth Bazinet / Medium:
Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets

Discussion: @janetaronica, @harrisj, @jaredbkeller, @craigsilverman, @aureliacotta, @antderosa, @kingisafink, @joshsternberg, @mathewi, @aureliacotta and @rajunarisetti

Rem Rieder / USA Today:

Patch.com reporter faces jail for doing his job — A judge in Illinois has ordered a reporter to reveal a confidential source. — CONNECT — Joseph Hosey is facing jail time for simply doing his job. — Hosey, a reporter for Patch.com in Illinois, has balked at an order to reveal the identity of a confidential source.

Discussion: @mikescarcella

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Follow-up on Flipboard: We can't pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’ — Are Operations Like Flipboard Scams Against Publishers? — Since we'd gotten a number of questions from readers, I jotted down a short post a couple days ago explaining that we've removed TPM from Flipboard …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @davewiner, @coudal, @jmcolberg, @choire and @politicalwire

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment — Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …

Discussion: The Next Web, AllThingsD, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Computerworld, The Switch, TechnoBuffalo, GeekWire, Digits, CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Mashable, WebProNews and Softpedia News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Freedom Communications will buy Riverside Press-Enterprise — Freedom Communications, Inc., which owns the Orange County Register, has agreed to purchase The (Riverside, Calif.) Press-Enterprise, the O.C. Register's Mary Ann Milbourn reports. Freedom will pay $27.25 million for the paper, which is currently owned by A.H. Belo.

Discussion: PE.com, Orange County Register, Biz Beat Blog and WPRI.com Blogs