Journalism agenda: It seems that WashPost Making History by its Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source in the Snowden case…

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WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normal course for a news organization, which owes its sources duties of protection, and which — by virtue of accepting the source’s materials and then publishing them — implicitly declares the source’s information to be in the public interest.

Personality is everything: How Quartz made its chat bot more ‘human’

Journalism.co.uk

Zach Seward, senior vice-president of product and executive editor, explained the “conversational interface” behind the Quartz app at the ONA conference in Denver

How journalists can better protect themselves from doxxing

 Journalism.co.uk

Doxxing – the public posting of journalists’ personal information – is a real threat, especially to those writing about certain issues

Lessons learned from reported.ly’s social-first journalism model

Journalism.co.uk

The reported.ly team discussed how they approached eyewitness media and graphic content, speaking at the ONA conference in Denver

Gawken: The Gawker replacement you need to read

Mashable! by Jenni Ryall

A satirical website has launched that will help you push through your grief over the loss of the anti-establishment hero, Gawker.

Tip: Check out this list of free digital resources for newsrooms of any size

 Journalism.co.uk

Looking for a guide to organise digital training in your newsroom, or an app for distributing news to your readers’ smartphones? This collection of tools has you covered

Algorithms Could Save Book Publishing—But Ruin Novels

Wired Top Stories by Susanne Althoff

From analyzing a book’s prospects to figuring out what subjects people are clamoring for, data is bigger in publishing than ever. But how much is too much?

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