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1:30 PM ET, June 3, 2013

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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:

A Personal Note On Nikki Finke From Mike Fleming — Earlier today, I got an urgent e-mail blast from The Wrap about Michael Douglas contracting throat cancer from cunnilingus. It was presented with the same traffic-pandering, classless urgency as similar blasts I've gotten from the same publication …

Discussion: The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Business Insider, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com, LA Observed, @bensheffner and @ckrewson

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

Nikki Finke To Sharon Waxman: Just Stop It — Right now I am not going to discuss my Deadline Hollywood contract or my relationship with my boss Jay Penske. Why? Because I don't have to. If that changes, I'll tell you. (I also didn't post about this imbecilic digital ad …

Discussion: Gawker, LA Observed, Poynter, New York Post and Business Insider

Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
What Nikki Finke Has Done

Discussion: Capital New York, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and @peterlauria3

Dylan Byers / Politico:

POLITICO hires FP's Susan Glasser to head new long-form journalism, opinion divisions — Some truly game-changing news on the Washington media scene tonight: POLITICO has hired Susan Glasser, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, to serve as editor of new long-form journalism and opinion divisions …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, New York Times, FishbowlDC, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The Huffington Post, Nieman Journalism Lab and New York Magazine

Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:

Media Organizations Urge Military To Allow Stenographers In Bradley Manning Trial — FORT MEADE, Md. — A coalition of news organizations signed onto a letter urging the military to overturn its decision to deny press credentials to two crowdfunded stenographers throughout the trial of Bradley Manning …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks trial: what are the key issues at stake? — The US soldier charged with ‘aiding the enemy’ is expected to be on trial for three months, starting today — After 1,100 days in military captivity, Bradley Manning finally goes to trial on Monday, for leaking a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks.

Discussion: The Nation, Pressing Issues and Soup

Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Bradley Manning Court-Martial Starts Today

Discussion: Guardian, The Daily Beast, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, Newsday, The Independent, New Statesman, Sky News, Fox News, Associated Press, The Independent, Agence France Presse, Mirror.co.uk and BBC

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News — At MSNBC they view it as rooting against death and destruction: the last thing the channel wants is more months like the last two, filled with terror bombings, tornadoes and plant accidents. — It's not all altruism.

Discussion: Mediaite, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, The Daily Caller, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Pressing Issues

Dylan Byers / Politico:

NBC/MSNBC to tap SCOTUSblog publisher — NBC News and MSNBC have announced that they will partner with the publisher of SCOTUSblog, the all-things-Supreme-Court website, for coverage of upcoming rulings. SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein and NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

CNN Denies Rumors About Wolf Blitzer Shakeup — CNN is hitting back at rumors about possible changes to Wolf Blitzer's role at the network. — The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Blitzer's on-air time may be reduced as president Jeff Zucker continues his overhaul of programming.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

NY Daily News:
Cryin' Wolf at CNN! Sources say viewers will see less of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and All Things CNN

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’ — In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself — Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms.

Discussion: Ink Stained and Talking Biz News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL's Orphaned Music Sites Find a Home at Townsquare Media — In April, AOL laid off most of the people who worked for its music sites. Now it has let go of the sites, too: Radio chain Townsquare Media Group has picked up three of the portal's music properties, along with one aimed at comic fanboys.

Discussion: Folio, Radio & Television …, CNET, TechCrunch, Billboard, VatorNews and AllAccess.com

LSE Media Policy Project:

Nesta Research: Public Interest High, Advertiser Interest Low for Hyperlocal Media — The future of local media in the UK has been in the limelight recently with the granting of local TV licenses, the House of Lords inquiry into media pluralism and the Newspaper Society supporting PresBoF's …

Discussion: Street Fight

Dylan Byers / Politico:

WaPo consolidates politics coverage, names Steven Ginsberg senior editor — The Washington Post has named Steven Ginsberg as senior politics editor, overseeing “all politics coverage, regardless of section or platform,” according to a memo from executive editor Marty Baron and his colleagues.