THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013
 | Sensor journalism, storytelling with Vine, fighting gender bias and more: Takeaways from the 2013 Civic Media Conference
These are some of the projects and discussions that caught our attention at this year’s MIT-Knight conference. By Nieman Lab Staff.
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 | The newsonomics of Advance’s advancing strategy and its Achilles’ heel
Portland’s Oregonian is up next in the newspaper chain’s cut-print-days-and-newsroom-staff strategy. But does it make sense — and can its leaders execute the plan? By Ken Doctor.
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 | With gay marriage sure to spark emotional responses, The Washington Post and New York Times try structuring comments
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, two smart newspapers wanted to break out of the generic comment box. By Joshua Benton.
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NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
www.guardian.co.uk
The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism
techcrunch.com
Editor's note: Sean Parker is the executive general partner at Founders Fund. Previously he was co-founder of Napster and the founding president of Facebook. He currently serves as a director of Spotify. My wife and I met 5 years ago and almost immediately began fantasizing about having a..
How the NSA is still harvesting your online data
www.guardian.co.uk
A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans' online data - despite the Obama administration's insistence that the program that began under Bush ended in 2011.
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
www.wired.com
On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange.
NSA inspector general report on email and internet data collection under Stellar Wind – full document
www.guardian.co.uk
Top-secret draft report from 2009 by the NSA's inspector general shows development of 'collection of bulk internet metadata' under program launched under Bush
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