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Views of the News: SCOTUS' Big Rulings, Snowden's Helpers, Hastings Death, Rock Center Gone

Edward Snowden empty Aeroflot seat
Alexander Zemlianichenko
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AP

Supremes' Big Rulings

The Washington Post: "The Supreme Court's gay marriage decision: Live updates"

Jess Bravis, The Wall Street Journal: "Justices Take Pass on Texas Affirmative-Action Case"

Lawrence Hurley, Reuters: "Supreme Court guts key part of landmark Voting Rights Act"

Michael D. Shear, The New York Times: "As Social Media Swirl Around It, Supreme Court Sticks to Its Analog Ways"

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "Media Gets It Right -- This Time"

Snowden's Helpers

Oren Dorell, USA TODAY: "WikiLeaks' Assange calling the shots on Snowden"

David Carr and Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times: "Assange, Back in News, Never Left U.S. Radar"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than a reporter?"

Mathew Ingram, paidContent: "Greenwald's Meet The Press incident shows why 'bloggers vs. journalists' still matters"

Jay Rosen, PressThink blog: "David Gregory tries to read Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian out of the journalism club"

Erik Wemple, The Washington Post: "Greenwald: Beltway media types are 'courtiers to power'"

Josh Feldman, Mediaite: "Wagging the Dog: O'Donnell Blames Edward Snowden for the Media's Obsession with Edward Snowden"

Too Hasty on Hastings?

Adam Silverman, Burlington Free Press: "Journalist, Vermont native Michael Hastings, 33, killed in car crash"

Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: "Michael Hastings Popped the Press Bubble, From the Campaign Trail to the Front Lines"

Alex Greig, London Daily Mail: "Journalist Michael Hastings emailed colleagues, friends that he 'needed to go off the radar' just hours before he died in a fiery car crash"

Beth Stebner, New York Daily News: "Michael Hastings conspiracy theories: Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash"

Natasha Lennard, Salon: "Stop speculating about Hastings' death"

So Long Rock Center

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "Disappointing Fall for 'Rock Center,' a News Program With Big Ambitions"

Kurtz Jumps to Fox

Chris Ariens, TV Newser: "Howard Kurtz Joining Fox News Channel: 'Too Good to Pass Up'"

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.