Mediagazer: David Miranda in legal challenge over seized data (BBC)

7:55 AM ET, August 20, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly with a four-letter expletive …

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Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …

Sarah Young / Reuters:

British authorities say detention of reporter's partner ‘legally sound’ — (Reuters) - Britain's authorities said on Tuesday the use of anti-terrorism powers to detain the partner of a journalist who wrote about U.S. and British surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward Snowden was “legally and procedurally sound”.

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Andrea Peterson / The Switch:

No, Glenn Greenwald didn't ‘vow vengeance.’ He said he was going to do his job. — Glenn Greenwald, the journalist at the Guardian who broke many of the stories related to the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks over the past two months, had a stressful weekend.

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BBC:

David Miranda in legal challenge over seized data — The police and government have a duty to protect the public, the Home Office has said in response to a row over the detention of a journalist's partner. — The police have to act if they believe an individual has “highly sensitive stolen information …

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

UK agents, seeking to stop leaks, destroyed The Guardian's hard drives — Two “security experts” from the British intelligence agency GCHQ have overseen the destruction of hard drives owned by The Guardian, the newspaper that has published leaked NSA documents describing the work of US and UK intelligence agencies.

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Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel:
David Miranda's detention was entirely legitimate

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

More NSA Spying Fallout: Groklaw Shutting Down — A few months ago, after the NSA spying stories first broke, we wrote about a bit from This American Life where the host, Ira Glass, was interviewing lawyers for prisoners detained at Guantanamo, about the impact of knowing that the government …

Groklaw:

Forced Exposure ~pj — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.

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Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:

The Times' top editor on mean bosses, liberal biases, and the demise of the Washington Post — For generations, the publishers of the great American newspapers were accidents of birth—sons and daughters (and assorted other relatives) who inherited their positions atop the masthead.

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

How to Build a Smarter Times, According to the Times' Own Journalists — In 1976, legendary Timesman A.M. Rosenthal, faced with the rising cost of newsprint, tasked his equally legendary deputy, Arthur Gelb, with formulating new sections to attract extra ads and readers to the newspaper and …

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Ken Auletta / Currency:

CBS, Time Warner Cable, and the Disruption of TV — Until the nineteen-eighties, American television was dominated by CBS, NBC, and ABC, broadcast networks so powerful that they were known simply as the Big Three. Then a new technology came along, one that gave viewers many more options to choose from …

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
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Ami Sedghi / Guardian:

Digital magazines: how popular are they? — The latest magazine circulation figures from the PPA show promising digital results for the industry - but is it enough to offset the fall in print? — Magazine circulation figures by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) …

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Condé Nast Stops Paying Interns — Magazine conglomerate Condé Nast, which was slapped with a lawsuit in June for paying interns less than a dollar per hour, has decided to stop paying interns altogether. Zero. Several recent Conde interns told the Who Pays Interns Tumblr …

Discussion: @jcstearns, @dangillmor, @jilliancyork and Who Pays Interns?