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• Jose Antonio Vargas on Using Social Media to Change Perceptions and Policy

  Alex Kantrowitz @ Mediashift - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

  It’s 4:40 p. m. on a spring Monday in New York City and Jose Antonio Vargas is energized. Armed with a Venti Starbucks iced coffee and a laptop suited for travel, Vargas quickly dives into a recap of a recently concluded cross-country tour. Over the course of 30 days, the tour hit 15 states, and despite [.

• Daily Must Reads, May 20, 2013

  Julie Keck @ Mediashift - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

  1.  Yahoo purchase of Tumblr shows power shift (WSJ) 2.  Tumblr brand will remain, with mostly “hands off” approach by Yahoo (AllThingsD) 3.  Chart: Where Yahoo’s Tumblr ranks next to Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest (The Atlantic) 4.  Pinterest takes a “first step” toward working with big brands (GigaOm) 5.  Associated Press CEO: DOJ’s seizure of phone records was “unconstitutional“ (Huffington Post) 6.

• Mediatwits #80: Feds Spy on AP, Bloomberg Spies on Feds; Future for Broadcast TV, Radio?

  Mark Glaser @ Mediashift - 3 days, 2 hours ago

  Who’s snooping on whom? First came the news that Bloomberg reporters were using the company’s terminals to find out when Federal officials were logging into the system. Then came the news that the Department of Justice was secretly obtaining phone records of up to 20 journalists at the AP.

• Daily Must Reads, May 16, 2013

  Julie Keck @ Mediashift - 3 days, 23 hours ago

  1. U. S. Attorney General defends DOJ seizure of phone records (NYT) 2. Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign gets a boost…from Google (AllThingsD) 3. Under fire, the White House pushes to revive news media shield law (NYT) 4. Advertisers lure Vine whiz to create new 6-second ads (CNN) 5. Publisher threatens to sue blogger for $1 billion (The [.

• E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, May 16, 2013

  Julie Keck @ Mediashift - 4 days, 1 hour ago

  1. E-books now make up 20% of U. S. book sales (Mashable) 2. Google Play Books enables user e-books uploads, Google Drive support (Verge) 3. PBS MediaShift starts publishing e-books; First topics: cord cutting & self-publishing (paidContent) 4. Self-publishing is the worst (Salon) 5. E-books responsible for nearly $1 billion growth in trade (Digital Book World) [. . . ] Please visit PBS MediaShift for the full story.

• The Real Costs of Self-Publishing a Book

  Miral Sattar @ Mediashift - 4 days, 3 hours ago

  At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: “How much will self-publishing really cost me?” Because the book publishing industry is one of the last industries to go digital, it’s going through a quick transition. As a result of this shift, authors no longer need to go [.

• Media Blast Feds for Secretly Obtaining Records on AP Phone Lines

  Zach C. Cohen @ Mediashift - 4 days, 3 hours ago

  The Associated Press announced Monday that the Department of Justice had obtained two months of phone records from its journalists in New York; Washington, D. C. ; and Hartford, Conn. The DOJ sent the AP a letter last week stating that it secretly spied on 20 phone lines, some of which were used by five reporters and [.

• Daily Must Reads, May 15, 2013

  Julie Keck @ Mediashift - 4 days, 3 hours ago

  1. What journalists need to know about the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records (Poynter) 2. Media coalition letter of protest to Attorney General Eric Holder (Washington Post) 3. Apple tells of tough talks, not collusion, with publishers (Reuters) 4. Study suggests 6 in 10 predict demise of AM/FM radio within 5 years (Detroit [.

• Pew: Online Political Activism Grows, But ‘Slacktivism’ Problem Remains

  Jenny Xie @ Mediashift - 5 days, 23 hours ago

  The level of people’s political participation online in 2012 has increased since 2008 — with 72 percent of all Americans participating in at least one activity, such as posting links to political stories or following elected officials, according to the latest Pew Research Center report on civic engagement. But one thing hasn’t changed: Those with [.

• Daily Must Reads, May 14, 2013

  Julie Keck @ Mediashift - 6 days ago

  1. A “massive and unprecedented intrusion”: Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe (AP) 2. Advertisers will spend nearly $10 billion this week on a broken TV model (Business Insider) 3. FDIC and Bloomberg in contact over data (WSJ) 4. Newspapers, radio, TV dominate 92 percent of total time spent consuming news (Poynter) 5. [. . . ] Please visit PBS MediaShift for the full story.