Mediagazer: After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back (Adrian Chen/Gawker)

8:25 AM ET, November 18, 2013

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

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New York Times:

Reporter on Unpublished Bloomberg Article Is Suspended — BEIJING — A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China that employees for the company said had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg editors was suspended last week by managers.

Emily Bell / Guardian:

Journalists are on the move in America - and creating a new vitality — Big-name reporters are moving for very significant amounts of money to a wide variety of new and surprising places — It caused a stir when the lauded statistician Nate Silver recently announced he was leaving …

Edward Moyer / CNET:
NSA foe Greenwald whips his new media venture into shape

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Adrian Chen / Gawker:

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back — The four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan has no remarkable features: a plain building on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadow of the Empire State Building. In the summer of 1920, Herbert O. Yardley …

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Andrew Sullivan expands The Daily Dish with monthly subscription-only magazine called Deep Dish — Blogger-entrepreneur Andrew Sullivan — who left The Daily Beast earlier this year to launch his own reader-supported site and has since raised over $800,000 from his supporters …

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Associated Press:

Gunman opens fire at French newspaper office, seriously wounding employee before fleeing — PARIS — A gunman opened fire in the lobby of a French newspaper office in Paris on Monday, gravely wounding a photographer's assistant before fleeing. — The daily newspaper Liberation said the 27-year-old victim was in serious condition.

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.

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Joe Concha / Mediaite:

A Year of Poor Decisions Show Why It's Time for a Change of Leadership at MSNBC — Before we begin, a disclaimer: — This column is not about MSNBC's narrative...not about its ideology or advocacy. The decision by MSNBC a few years ago to go left, to be the anti-Fox, should be applauded …

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Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

Openly accessible — The backlash over a Science magazine sting raises questions about the scope of investigative journalism and the rigor of open access publishing — Last month John Bohannon, a biologist and science writer, published the kind of piece in Science magazine that defies classification.

Tyler Hamilton / INMA:

News media fail to report on their own environmental impact — Media companies barely register on the list of the globe's most sustainable corporations — not because they don't deserve to be there, but because few disclose data on their energy consumption, emissions, water use, and waste production.

John Reynolds / Guardian:

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William Launder / Wall Street Journal:

Bloomberg's News Division to Lay Off About 50 People — Bloomberg LP's news division will lay off about 50 people or about 2% of its newsroom, according to people familiar with the company's plans, the latest financial news and data provider to make job reductions.

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emptywheel:

The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition — On the first page of a WaPo story on an Eric Holder speech, it says this. Holder indicated that the Justice Department is not planning to prosecute former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who received documents from Snowden …

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