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John Borland / Wired:
Glenn Greenwald: ‘A Lot’ More NSA Documents to Come — Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden's first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA's digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely. — Living in Brazil, he is advised not to travel.
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Greenwald: US and British media are servants of security apparatus — Journalist Glenn Greenwald condemned the mainstream media during an address at a German computer conference on Friday and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe.
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite and The Register
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Vice teases Vice News channel with trailer for 2014 launch — WATCH: VICE Joining 24-Hour News Game in 2014 — VICE Media captured national attention in a big way this year when it orchestrated Dennis Rodman's fateful trip to North Korea for its HBO documentary series.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
DirecTV issues veiled threat in talks with Weather Channel — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has begun distributing WeatherNation, a network with very little reach or viewership, just as its deal to carry the Weather Channel is set to expire. — Ratings for the Weather Channel …
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
Call me an optimist, but the future of journalism isn't bleak — Even as today's major journalistic institutions struggle to adapt, media startups and investigative outlets carry the torch — As we head into 2014, the 20th anniversary of the first popular web browser, we are awash in media.
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@raju, @dangillmor and @jayrosen_nyu
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Powerhouses Behind ‘Big Brother,’ ‘American Idol’ Ramp Up Web Programs — Endemol, FremantleMedia Look to Migrate TV Advertisers Online — Two of the world's-largest TV production companies, Endemol and FremantleMedia, are plotting online programming assaults for 2014.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
With Angel Funding From Top Media Veterans, The News Lens Wants To Reshape Journalism In Taiwan — Earlier this month, The News Lens, an independent media startup in Taiwan, announced that it had received angel funding from Marcus Brauchli, whose resume includes top editing positions …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
TV blackout wars in a quiet period — The TV industry has a holiday tradition straight out of “How The Grinch Stole Christmas:” End of year feuds that lead to channel blackouts for viewers. — But this year, everybody is playing nice. (It's almost as if the hearts of television executives have collectively grown three sizes.)
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune closes $2.7B Local TV acquisition … Tribune Co. has closed on its $2.73 billion acquisition of Local TV, making it one of the country's largest television station owners, the company announced Friday. — The deal, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission last week …
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The Huffington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Wall Street Journal, TVSpy and PR Newswire
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Bye bye, bile? Websites try to nix nasty comments — NEW YORK (AP) — Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet. — Blame anonymity, blame politicians, blame human nature.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson aren't protected by copyright, US court rules — Sherlock Holmes' status as a copyrighted character is easily as complicated as any of the cases he's had to solve. Created over 125 years ago, Holmes would remain a fixture in author Arthur Conan Doyle's work until the late 1920s.
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ArtsBeat, Gawker and Open Culture
Andy Carvin / Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth:
Andy Carvin, noted Twitter curator and NPR's senior social media strategist, says farewell — This...Was NPR. — It's my last day at NPR. — I can't believe how seven years have gone by so quickly. It feels like it was just yesterday that I first began chatting with then-VP …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Rdio Shuts Down Video-Streaming Site Vdio, Offers Amazon Credits As Reimbursement For Purchases — It's only been six months since Rdio launched its video-streaming platform Vdio to the world, but it appears that the company has already decided to give up on that experiment.
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Gigaom, Variety, Pocket-lint, The Verge, The Next Web, App Advice, FierceOnlineVideo News, Home Media Magazine and Engadget