AAP hacks fire up over redundancies. Staff at wire service Australian Associated Press have voiced their “disgust” at the company’s handling of a restructure that will make 10% of its journalists redundant.

At stopwork meetings organised by the Media Entertainment Alliance last week, reporters at AAP bureaux across the country passed a resolution slamming the company:

“AAP staff express their disgust at the handling of the current redundancy process,” the resolution said. “Members of staff have found the whole process extremely distressing. Morale is at an all-time low, further exacerbated by the lack of transparency in the process … We call on the company to increase the overall redundancy package out of respect for the years of service staff have served.”

One reporter told Crikey the mood at AAP, which provides breaking news and features to news companies, was at “rock bottom”.

AAP last week announced it would cut 10% of its Newswire jobs, meaning 20-25 editorial staff will be made redundant. Crikey understands five jobs — including for entertainment and technology reporting roles — were advertised internally last week, with most based in Sydney. — Matthew Knott

Guardian crowd-souces itself. The Guardian is calling on its readers to help them profile its own controversial columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the National Security Agency scandal last week. Greenwald has been subject to a great deal of media scrutiny in the last few days, including a rather critical profile by The New York Times.

Bizarrely, The Guardian has created a short survey, in two parts, to gauge the reaction of its readers to Greenwald’s professional practice.

Part I asks readers to profile their involvement with Glenn. How often do they read his column? Where do they live? What’s their professional position? It’s important for the citizens to show their credentials, after all.

Part II asks questions designed to elicit a sense of what Greenwald and his work mean to readers. Would readers define Glenn as a journalist, blogger, activist or something else? Can you provide some adjectives to describe Glenn’s work or perhaps his personality?

It seems as though it’s a quick way to get some synonyms to pull together a profile, without the responsibility of pulling professional rank. Or perhaps just a way of puffing up the ego of one of their prize recruits? — Crikey intern Joanna Robin

Front page of the day. Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the NSA brouhaha, chose to remain in Hong Kong for protection as the story broke around the globe. Here’s how HK’s South China Morning Post has covered the story …

Video the day. Mark Latham fires up on ABC’s Q&A last night over fellow former Labor leader Kevin Rudd.  “You’re getting into the realm of evil here with Rudd, the realm of evil, with someone who has gone well beyond normal practices in politics …”