Top News:


The Washington Post editorial board calls for prosecution of Edward Snowden, the paper's source for stories that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service — Three of the four media outlets which received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden …


Vice News reporter Alex Thompson was released around midnight following mid-afternoon arrest at Trump campaign event in Houston — Alex Thompson, a reporter for VICE News, was released from Houston Central Jail just after midnight central time Sunday morning.
RELATED:


Major TV networks refused to cover Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of his campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour
Discussion:
VICE News, Washington Post, @realdonaldtrump, Deadspin, New York Times, Mother Jones, @allegrakirkland, @tpm, @sacca, @mattyglesias, The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Slate, BuzzFeed, @hadas_gold, Columbia Journalism Review, MediaFile, Media Matters for America, @erineileengray, @alexweprin, @stevenjay, @nycsouthpaw, @charles_gaba, TVNewser, @candacesmith_, Mediaite, The Week, Washington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, BuzzFeed, @ddale8, @maggienyt, @maggienyt, Deadspin and The Intercept

It's time for TV news to stop playing the stooge for Donald Trump

Interview with Joe Kahn, the new managing editor at The New York Times, on how the newsroom is changing, diversity, more — Journalism is now examining how it should treat Donald Trump. Shouldn't we signal to readers high up in stories that he's a liar? That he's a racist?
Discussion:
CNET, New York Times, @mujmash, @erikwemple, New York Times and @josephkahn


‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Reflect on Breaking Emmy Record, Spinoffs and Season 7 — “Game of Thrones” ruled the 2016 Emmys with 12 wins, including awards for Best Drama Series, Best Directing (Miguel Sapochnik) and Best Writing (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) for “Battle of the Bastards.”


As Netflix asserts itself, studio and cable channels fret that the streaming company is headed for a near-monopoly in entertainment — The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears …
Discussion:
@janicemin and @thrmattbelloni
RELATED:


Netflix releases original short film “Meridian” as test footage for codec developers and even competitors to use, open sources tools for new video master format — A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white.
Discussion:
@jank0, @dexterdavey, @joesteel, @dcurtisj and @janedaily


Andy Carvin and other staffers of now-closed Reported.ly discuss lessons learned curating news on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit — The reported.ly team discussed how they approached eyewitness media and graphic content, speaking at the ONA conference in Denver — Credit: Image by scyther5 on Shutterstock
Discussion:
@wordsofsarah, @mjenkins, @ethanklapper, @mandy_velez, @thisisrachael, @jenniferhefty, @thisisrachael, @jmizgata, @mjenkins, @meenaganesan and Journalism News


Breaking News, Intercept, Quartz, New York Magazine take home 2016 Online Journalism Awards — DENVER — Superlative reporting on leaked data, prison reform and undue police force led coverage that garnered top honors for 35 media organizations Saturday night at the 2016 Online Journalism Awards …
Discussion:
American Press Institute, Online News Association, Guardian, @corybe, @onanewsroom, @onanewsroom, @cgreensit, @laur_katz, @rubinafillion, @rtburg, @climatecentral, @hermida, @rosental, @mobiletrevor, @corybe, @ona and @ona


Media entrepreneur and Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis relaunches Inside.com, a roster of eight newsletters, with plans to expand to 250, already has 100K subs — Jason Calacanis wants to build the next media empire on the back of an old standby: email, specifically email newsletters.
Discussion:
Recode, @krissiegel, jason and @marshallk

Q&A with a news assistant for a foreign news agency in China on the challenges of being a local fixer, dealing with the Great Firewall, more — In international journalism, a local journalist hired by foreign reporters for his or her special knowledge of the local area, culture, and language is called a fixer.


How a small team at The Denver Post created The Cannabist, which has grown into one of America's biggest marijuana news sites since 2013 — DENVER — In April, Denver Post staffers poked their heads into a airstream trailer by the backdoor of the newsroom and were greeted by an unusual sight.


Larry King, Ed Schultz, and Jesse Ventura legitimize pro-Kremlin messages as hosts on RT, Russia's English-language news and propaganda outlet — Inside Russia Today's American headquarters in Washington, across from the receptionist's desk stamped by a lime green “RT” banner …
Discussion:
New York Times, @sulliview, @glcarlstrom and The Daily Caller


Q&A with Disney/ABC TV's President Ben Sherwood, on a potential Star Wars series, mistakes in Michael Strahan's Live exit, and Bob Iger's future — “We made some mistakes, we fixed them quickly and we moved on,” says the television group president as he tackles 'GMA's' viewership decline …
RELATED:

Disney/ABC Taps Bruce Rosenblum as President of Business Ops
Discussion:
New York Times, The Wrap and Variety