Mediagazer: Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden (Anthony Faiola/Washington Post)

7:10 PM ET, December 1, 2013

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Glenn Greenwald / UT Documents:

Glenn Greenwald responds to accusations of profiteering, monopolization of Snowden documents — Questions/responses for journalists linking to the Pando post - and other matters — The other day I referred to those who “evince zero interest in the substance of the revelations about NSA …

Discussion: PandoDaily, @ggreenwald, @el_grillo1, @wikileaks, @mariabustillos, @paulcarr, @benedictevans, @kevinvogeltanz, @xor, @glynmoody, @jayrosen_nyu and Pressing Issues

David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:

High-contrast transparency - How Glenn Greenwald could look like a monopolist — Glenn Greenwald mounts a mighty and effective defense against the charge leveled by Mark Ames at Pando.com that Greenwald and Laura Poitras are “monopolizing” and “privatizing” the 50,000-200,000 NSA documents entrusted to them by Edward Snowden.

Discussion: @dangillmor

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

Peter Kaplan, Editor of New York Observer, Dies at 59 — In his 15 years as editor, Mr. Kaplan was credited with making The New York Observer both pertinent and impertinent as it gleefully chronicled the every move and shake of the city's movers and shakers. — Arts in the Region — ARTS |

Colin Campbell / The New York Observer:

Peter Kaplan: Never Hold Your Best Stuff — Peter W. Kaplan, the editor of The New York Observer from 1994 to 2009, died Friday of cancer, The New York Times reported earlier this evening. — Mr. Kaplan, who died at age 59, was an outsized figure at the newspaper and across the city itself …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Slate, @jonathanalter, @moorehn, @mlcalderone and Talking Points Memo

Doree Shafrir / BuzzFeed:

Peter Kaplan And His Writers — The former New York Observer editor died Friday at age 59. “The barefoot contessa wore rubber thongs.” — Paul Morigi / Getty Images for Conde Nast Publications — Everyone's story about being hired by Peter Kaplan is quirky and telling in its own way …

Discussion: @joehagansays, @doreeshafrir, @ktlincoln and @petersterne

Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:

Viral content is going to be a terrible business model — Last week, Business Insider published a list of some red-hot, up-and-coming media properties that have achieved monster traffic numbers seemingly overnight. — BuzzFeed and Upworthy are the best known of the bunch …

Discussion: @bgoldberg

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them

Discussion: @bankoff, @davidbauer, @noahmittman, @henrikbennetsen and @zimbalist

Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed: The Right Wing Has Its Own Upworthy And You Won't Believe How Well It's Doing

Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:

Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden — LONDON — Living in self-imposed exile in Russia, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be safely out of reach from western powers. But dismayed by the continued airing …

Discussion: @raju, @ggreenwald, @kenroth, @arusbridger, @morethanannie and @dangillmor

Linda Shapley / Editor's Notes:

Q&A with Ricardo Baca, The Post's new marijuana editor — Ricardo Baca has been appointed Marijuana Editor at the Denver Post. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post) — As noted last week, The Denver Post is appointing an editor to oversee our coverage of the recreational marijuana law taking effect in January.

Discussion: @kansasalps, @crecenteb, Gawker, @mikephilpott and Guardian

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

The Guardian's future... by the paper's guardian Andrew Miller — Andrew Miller has presided over a £200m loss at the media group over the past six years, but that's the cost of global expansion, he tells Ian Burrell — Guardian News & Media has lost nearly £200m in the past six years …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Who hates Jony Ive's iOS7? Publishers, that's who — When Marco Arment launched The Magazine in October last year, media watchers got excited about its business model. At the time, The Magazine was an iOS-only product (you can now subscribe and read on the Web, too) …

Discussion: @dangillmor and Marco.org

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Google Newsstand: What do magazine publishers think? — We speak to Future and Condé Nast to get their views the launch of Google Play Newsstand — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...