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9:15 PM ET, June 4, 2012

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

As Newspapers Cut, Analysts Ask if Readers Will Remain — The news waits for no one. But newspapers might start asking readers to — at least for print copies. — Almost two weeks ago, The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, which is owned by Advance Publications, announced it would cut …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Poynter, Free Press, Capital New York, eMedia Vitals, The FJP, Big News Network.com and bizjournals

Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Times-Picayune Citizens' Group aims to stop publication changes at newspaper — About 50 business and civic leaders and organizations have joined together to express frustration at a recently announced plan to reduce print publication of The Times-Picayune.

Discussion: @mathewi, Gambit New Orleans News …, theind.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Blog of New Orleans

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

The Mayor of All Media — As Michael Bloomberg prepares for his post-mayoralty, his media company is also evolving. For decades, Bloomberg LP saw profits soar by selling just-the-facts journalism and financial information to Wall Street traders. That vision, while still wildly profitable …

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Will Bloomberg buy the New York Times?

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Capital New York and Poynter

Jim Romenesko:

Fired U-T San Diego sports columnist: I wasn't told my job was in danger — U-T San Diego sports columnist Tim Sullivan was fired on Friday after working at the paper for a decade. “I was advised that my services were no longer required,” Sullivan tweeted. “Simple as that.”

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Sales of Murdoch's New British Sunday Paper Slip — LONDON — Rupert Murdoch has endured a litany of blows in the unending phone-hacking scandal at his British tabloids. But one setback isn't happening in Parliament, but on Britain's newsstands. The Sun, a brash daily tabloid …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Media Decoder

Dylan Byers / Politico:

TNR: ‘The New Yorker’ of Washington D.C.? — The New Republic has a new goal: It wants to be The New Yorker of Washington, D.C. — Chris Hughes, who bought the 98-year-old magazine three months ago, has literally said just that, multiple sources who have spoken with the 28-year-old tech entreprenuer tell POLITICO.

Discussion: Politico, @pareene and Capital New York

Erik Wemple:

Roger Ailes wife's newspaper in state of denial — Elizabeth Ailes has a message for journalist Gabriel Sherman. He's welcome to schlep to a local newsstand to buy a copy of her Putnam County News and Recorder. But that's the only way he's going to get his hands on the community paper.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

AOL Threatens Blogger With Copyright Infringement Charge... For Doing The Exact Same Thing AOL Has Done On A Large Scale — There have been plenty of accusations made against AOL's the Huffington Post concerning its habit of “over aggregating” content from other sites.

Discussion: maryland juice

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

New York Times Tacks on Two for Social Media, Values People Who Know Their Way Around Reddit — The New York Times is beefing up their social media S.W.A.T. team; one comes from inside the building, the other, ProPublica. A memo from inside the Times, in which we learn what the social media masters …

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Attacking Amazon, Authors Group Urges Opposition to E-Book Settlement — The Authors Guild on Monday will urge its 8,500 members to protest the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with three publishers, a proposal that clears the way for Amazon to lower prices on e-books.

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse — In the first decade of the commercial Internet—the 1990s and early 2000s—there were frequent murmurings that newspapers were screwed. — The digital audience didn't read newspapers, people pointed out. They visited web sites.

Discussion: SplatF, The Daily Caller and Fortune

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why MIT's Technology Review is going digital first — Magazines and newspapers of all kinds have been experimenting with paywalls, iPad apps and other methods of handling the ongoing disruption that the web and digital media have produced, but very few have taken a fully “digital first” approach.

Discussion: Technology Review, Thanks:@mathewi