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Views of the News: Outing US digital snooping , debating "breaking news," muzzling WI reporters

Digital Snooping: The Original Stories

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian: "NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily"

Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, The Washington Post: "U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program"

The Leaker

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, The Guardian: "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations"

Michael Calerone, The Huffington Post: "AP Editor: Do Not Describe Edward Snowden as a 'Whistleblower'"

Charlie Savage and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times: "Cryptic Overtures and a Clandestine Meeting Gave Birth to a Blockbuster Story"

Barton Gellman, The Washington Post: "Code name 'Verax': Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew the risks"

Roger Simon, Politico: "The slacker who came in from the cold"

The Pundits React

Rebecca Shapiro, The Huffington Post: "Bill O'Reilly: NSA Bombshell Has Caused 'Ideological Chaos' Aomg Pundits and Politicians"

Amy Chozick, The New York Times: "Conservatives as Defenders of the Media"

David Sirota, Salon: "Who are the real criminals in the NSA case?"

Roy Greenslade, The Guardian: "Could The Guardian win a Pulitzer for Edward Snowden's NSA revelations?"

The Public Reacts

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic"

Mathew Ingram, GigaOm: "For some, the reaction to PRISM is a shrug: Are we suffering from Big Brother fatigue?"

What's Next?

Arik Hesseldahl, All Things D: "Google Wants Permission to Disclose How Many National Security Requests It Gets"

AP: "Journalist in US Surveillance Case: More to Come"

The "Breaking News" Debate

Kevin Eck, TV Spy: "WDRB Explains Why It Thinks 'Breaking News' is Broken"

Bill Carter, The New York Times: "Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News"

Lawmakers Try to Muzzle Investigative Reporters

Lauren Ingeno, Inside Higher Education: "Journalism Center a Target"

Charlie Sykes, 620 WTMJ NewsRadio: "Petty, Vindictive, Dumb"

Briefly Speaking

Maria Sacchetti, The Boston Globe: "Mass. pair sues New York Post over Marathon bombing portrayal"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.