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2:25 PM ET, June 6, 2012

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
How things went bad at GOOD magazine, what's next for fired staff and the company they left  —  Max Schorr isn't interested in engaging in what he calls “he said/she said back and forth” with the former staffers of GOOD, the magazine he cofounded that laid off most of its editorial staff last Friday.
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TOMORROW:
Hello Tomorrow  —  “What is best in life?”  This is our colleague Cord Jefferson's refrain.  This brilliant little rhetorical question has a way of stopping everyone in the moment—usually a drunken moment, always a really great moment—to make sure we all recognize and remember it.
Ann Friedman:   About GOOD and on to TOMORROW
Jim Romenesko:
Warren Buffett buys 3.2% stake in Lee Enterprises  —  Warren Buffett hoped Berkshire Hathaway could keep quiet about its investment in struggling Lee Enterprises, but the SEC wouldn't allow it.  On Tuesday, the billionaire investor disclosed that Berkshire purchased 1.66 million shares of Lee …
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Jack Shafer:
The great newspaper liquidation
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Telegraph:
Barbara Walters: the key emails  —  Following her exclusive interview with Bashar al-Assad, Barbara Walters tried to use her influence to help one of the Syrian dictator's former aides.  Here are the key emails.  December 8, 2011 - Sheherazad Jaafari to Barbara Walters …
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Barbara Walters Apologizes for Helping Aide to Assad of Syria  —  In the months after her exclusive interview last year with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Barbara Walters tried to intercede to get a job for a former aide of his, who Ms. Walters acknowledged helped arrange the interview.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Wattpad raises $17 million to become the YouTube of writing  —  Wattpad, which describes itself as the world's largest online community of readers and writers, has raised a Series B funding round of $17.3 million from a group of venture funds led by Khosla Ventures and including Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Salon Names Cindy Jeffers CEO, CTO  —  Cindy Jeffers has been named the new CEO and CTO of Salon.  Jeffers comes to Salon from The Huffington Post, where she had worked since 2010; most recently as its technical director.  Jeffers will succeed David Talbot, the site's founder.
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Pandora is lobbying Congress to keep online radio royalties low  —  Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 during the first quarter alone on two lobbying firms to keep royalties for online radio low.  —  Pandora has reportedly spent more than $50,000 this year lobbying Congress …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option  —  HBO doesn't want your money, Web-only television viewers.  —  The premium cable channel on Wednesday acknowledged a fan campaign called “Take My Money, HBO!” with a Twitter message that said, in effect, thanks but no thanks.
Discussion: Lost Remote, TechCrunch and GitHub
John Koblin / Deadspin:
How A Teenager With A Fake Escort Service Duped Darren Rovell And CNBC  —  An 18-year-old high school senior named Tim was bored one day last November when CNBC's sports biz guy, Darren Rovell, sent out the following tweet: If you are losing a paycheck/business because of the NBA, I want to tell your story.
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Shake Up Shack: New York Times Has New Police Bureau Chief  —  After more than a half a decade as police headquarters bureau chief for The New York Times, Al Baker has vacated the mouse-infested reporters' “shack” at One Police Plaza, making way for some rare new blood at the Times.
MSNBC:
Bradley Manning's Wikileaks hearing opens as defense seeks dismissal of 10 counts  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — WikiLeaks suspect Pvt. Bradley Manning appeared at a military court outside Washington on Wednesday for a three-day pretrial hearing at which his lawyers were seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts against him.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The American Prospect doesn't need angels  —  GQ's Marin Cogan reports today on the fate of The American Prospect, which recently told readers that if it couldn't raise $200,000, it was going to die.  —  It's not a terribly pretty picture: “On a recent Monday afternoon …
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Marin Cogan / GQ:
“I'm sort of fatalistic ... It's in rich peoples' hands now”: The Last Days of The American Prospect?
Discussion: bookforum.com
 
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Jim Romenesko:
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