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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Greenwald won't be prosecuted based on current information, U.S. attorney general says — Justice is reviewing criminal cases that used surveillance evidence gathered under FISA — The Justice Department is conducting a comprehensive review of all criminal cases in which the government …
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The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition — On the first page of a WaPo story on an Eric Holder speech, it says this. … Based on that, I think, a slew of journalists are reporting that DOJ will not prosecute Glenn Greenwald. — Then click the link: — Screen shot 2013-11-15 at 8.51.55 PM
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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Eric Holder May Have Just Toppled the First Domino in Ending NSA Surveillance — The top line news from an interview Attorney General Eric Holder gave to The Washington Post is that Holder recognizes Glenn Greenwald's work in exposing NSA — and Justice Department — surveillance as journalism and that he wouldn't be prosecuted.
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Felix Salmon:
The financial-media rollup strategy — Financial news is a classic ripe-for-disruption industry. It generally makes its money by selling expensive subscriptions to the price-insensitive, but that model won't last forever: it's never been harder to find anybody under the age of 40 who pays for such things.
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Jack Shafer:
Does anyone still work at the ‘New York Times’? — Recent defections of talent from the New York Times — Nate Silver, David Pogue, Jeff Zeleny, Richard Berke, Brian Stelter, Matt Bai, et al. — have unjelled the media firmament, according to Politico media columnist Dylan Byers.
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The annual press flubbing of Thanksgiving dinner — Journalists find a way to mishandle a yearly farm bureau press release — Come this time of year, the business press gets a press release from the American Farm Bureau Federation reporting how much the average Thanksgiving dinner will run you this year.
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
The shifting pay TV industry in two charts — More than half of consumers with a connected TV have increased their use of over-the-top broadband TV sources in the last year, with 24 percent reporting a sizable increase according to data from the TDG Group. This television includes sources …
Austin Carr / Co.Design:
How Flipboard Keeps You Glued To The Page — The new Flipboard app, released this week, looks similar to previous iterations. And for good reason. — Several years ago, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue was searching for the company's soul. He and cofounder Evan Doll had been playing with the idea …
Stephanie M. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Raul Ramirez, pioneering journalist, dies at 67 — Raul Ramirez, whose tough-nosed reporting and inspiring mentorship made him a defining force in Bay Area journalism, died Friday at his Berkeley home. He was 67. Mr. Ramirez's death was announced by KQED Public Radio, where he had worked for 22 years.
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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
What if Contently bought ProPublica? — That's a crazy question. It sounds stupid. It may be stupid. — In fact, let me just go ahead and pre-package a tweet for those among us who have their outrage-phasers set to Reflex: … But bear with me. There might not yet be a serious case …
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Alec Baldwin Suspended From MSNBC After Controversial Remarks — The actor's MSNBC show has been pulled from the air for the next two weeks. — MSNBC announced Friday that “Up Late With Alec Baldwin” had been pulled from the network's schedule for the next two weeks, following the actor's controversial remarks to a photographer.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack — We wrote, earlier this year, about LulzSec/Antisec/Anonymous hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleading guilty to hacking Stratfor. While the other Lulzsec hackers who were arrested in the UK got sentences …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: ‘My days of hacking are done’
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