Mediagazer: Third Point Boosts Sony Stake as Daniel Loeb Seeks Talks (Bloomberg)

4:05 AM ET, June 18, 2013

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

All journalism is advocacy (or it isn't) — Jay Rosen wrote a insightful post forking the practice of journalism into “politics: none” (that is, traditional American journalism: objective, it thinks) and “politics: some” (that is, the kind just practiced by Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian).

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Joshua Foust / Medium:

A Catalogue of Journalistic Malfeasance — The reporting on Edward Snowden has been dreadful. Is there a way to make it better? — Two weeks ago, when the Guardian first leaked a Verizon court order to hand over its call metadata, a national debate began about privacy and security.

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Sources With Secrets Find New Outlets for Sharing — AT the end of the 1975 thriller “Three Days of the Condor,” a C.I.A. researcher played by Robert Redford, with the code name Condor, stands in front of The New York Times building. His life in danger, he is trying to save himself by taking …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

British Defense Officials Send Out Media Notice To Censor Further Leaks From Edward Snowden — Defence officials issued a confidential D notice to the BBC and other media groups in an attempt to censor coverage of surveillance tactics employed by intelligence agencies in the UK and US.

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Apple Executive Defends Pricing in Case on E-Books — Just days after Apple introduced the iPad and opened an e-bookstore, the biggest player in the e-book market, Amazon, changed the way it sold digital titles. Steven P. Jobs shot off an e-mail to the Apple executive who had negotiated deals with the publishers.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days

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Steven Musil / CNET:

Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire to prevent $6B takeover bid — Wireless carrier's lawsuit claims the deal violates shareholder rights and Delaware laws. — Sprint Nextel has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network and Clearwire seeking to prevent Dish's takeover of the wireless broadband provider.

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Bloomberg:

Third Point Boosts Sony Stake as Daniel Loeb Seeks Talks — Third Point LLC, the hedge fund led by billionaire Daniel Loeb, increased its stake in Sony Corp. (6758) while pushing for talks with the board on a proposed initial public offering of the company's entertainment business.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Future of 3-D TV Murky as ESPN Ends Channel — A few years ago, 3-D was hailed as the next big thing in television, the logical successor to high definition. But viewers in the United States did not buy the hype, and now the eye-popping format is seen as an expensive flop.

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James Henderson / Techday:

Fairfax Magazines to close NZ tech titles — Fairfax Magazines will resign the licences, owned by IDG, to publish technology titles Computerworld, Reseller News and PC World in New Zealand. — In a press release sent out to the media late yesterday, the organisation says the decision …

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Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo — Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website. It will sting a bit.

Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:

Edward Snowden's Father Speaks Out To Fox About Media ‘Misinformation,’ Asks Son To Stop Leaking — Eric Bolling made an appearance on Monday's Fox & Friends to offer a glimpse of his interview with NSA leaker Edward Snowden's father, Lonnie Snowden. Speaking to Bolling on Sunday night …

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Shibley Telhami / Salon:

Al Jazeera: The most-feared news network — Al Jazeera is well-funded and doesn't need to make money. But its prospects, here and in Middle East, are uncertain — The Arab media explosion that recently has culminated in uprisings across the region springs from two interrelated sources …

Sky News:

No Agreement Over Julian Assange's Future — The British and Ecuadorian governments have failed to reach an agreement over the future of Julian Assange after talks in London. — Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino had travelled to Britain to discuss what to do about the Wikileaks founder …

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