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2:25 PM ET, June 4, 2012

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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 …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Will Bloomberg buy the New York Times?  —  New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman has taken a long, well-reported look at what's next for Michael Bloomberg following his tenure as mayor of New York.  —  Central to whatever lies ahead is the expansion of his media empire, Bloomberg News …
Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York and City Room
Jonathan Berr / InvestorPlace:   Bloomberg Can't Save New York Times Co.
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
The Undoing of the Daily  —  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 back its print schedule to just three days a week.
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
David Carr / New York Times:
CNN Hires Bourdain, in a Bet on Lifting Stalled Ratings  —  Michael K. Williams played Omar Little, the righteous stickup man in “The Wire,” and now plays Chalky White, the bootlegger on “Boardwalk Empire,” so he is a big deal in the Brooklyn housing projects where he grew up.
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.
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: Fortune and The Daily Caller
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Radio Host Neal Boortz To Retire, Will Be Replaced By Herman Cain  —  Long-time conservative radio talker Neal Boortz will announce his retirement today, according to a report.  The announcement that contains Boortz's retirement also says that former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain will replace him early next year.
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
BiblioCrunch relaunches as an e-book services marketplace that helps publishers find talent  —  BiblioCrunch's e-book services marketplace is now open to the public, the New York-based startup announced today, right on time for Book Expo America.  According to its CEO Miral Sattar …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Margaret Brennan Joining CBS News  —  Margaret Brennan, the former Bloomberg TV anchor is joining CBS News, TVNewser has learned.  Brennan will be a correspondent principally assigned to the State Department but will also serve as a general assignment reporter in Washington, DC.
Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
James Rainey Writes Moving Tribute to Murdered Brother  —  Via Facebook, Los Angeles Times media critic James Rainey shares a loving remembrance of his older brother, chiropractor Robert Rainey, who was killed last week at his Venice boulevard office in Palms.
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
NYT: “MEN invented the internet”  —  What a steaming turd of an opening line in David Streitfeld's otherwise serviceable New York Times piece about the Ellen Pao/Kleiner Perkins sexual harassment lawsuit, and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley.  —  Here's the opening graf (bold-ing, mine):
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
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