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7:35 AM ET, June 4, 2012

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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.
Discussion: Inside Cable News
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
My Gettysburg oration: A vision for journalism that can long endure  —  This is the prepared text for my June 2 keynote speech to the Pennsylvania Press Conference.  I ad-libbed a bit, so this isn't exactly what I said.  —  I'm used to leading 90-minute workshops at conferences like this.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
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 …
Discussion: Publishers Weekly
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):
Guardian:
Four convicted over terror plot against Danish newspaper  —  Four men have been found guilty of plotting to kill staff at a Danish newspaper in revenge for its publication in 2005 of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.  Three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian were convicted of terrorism over the plot against Jyllands-Posten.
Richard Mullins / Tampa Bay Online:
Tampa Bay Times' parent, Poynter, facing financial squeeze  —  Newspaper no longer a ‘viable’ source for support, media institute says  —  TAMPA —  The renowned Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg is turning to new funding options as officials acknowledge their traditional source …
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
As Facebook Puns Dominate News Headlines Worldwide, One Man Is Fighting Back  —  “Where are Facebook's friends?  Stock slide deepens ,” the Associated Press wondered recently.  “Facebook's flotation: more pokes than likes ,” The Guardian quipped.  “Status change for Facebook's IPO?,” MSNBC questioned.
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.
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Scourge of Paraguay's Drug Trade, the Journalist Cándido Figueredo, Is Ready for Retaliation  —  GRASPING his semiautomatic Browning handgun, he peeked through the curtains.  Then he pondered the images of passers-by on the closed-circuit television screens recording movement in front of his house here.
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Lauren Pond / Washington Post:
Why I watched a snake-handling pastor die for his faith  —  This is what I saw through my camera lens: Pastor Randy “Mack” Wolford, tossing and turning on the couch in his mother-in-law's West Virginia trailer, suffering from the pain of a rattlesnake bite he had received earlier in the day.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Plagiarism Is Plagiarism  —  I have a great deal of respect for Marvin Kalb.  He had a long and illustrious career as a broadcast journalist.  Since then, in a variety of roles at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, he has been a formidable champion of journalism excellence.
Richard Nieva / Fortune:
Tim Stevens is the nicest guy in tech  —  Not to mention one of the most powerful.  The editor in chief of Engadget plays a crucial — if not always acknowledged — role in the $190 billion consumer electronics industry.  And, in a cast of blowhards and rascals, he's a different sort of editor …
 
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Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
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Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Journalism: The best of times, and the worst of times
Discussion: @mathewi