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4:40 PM ET, June 4, 2013

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hola, Dora!  Amazon Locks Up the Viacom Kids Shows Netflix Doesn't Have Anymore  —  Netflix doesn't want Viacom shows like “Dora the Explorer” and “Spongebob Squarepants “- or at least, not at Viacom's asking price.  —  But Amazon is happy to pay up: Jeff Bezos and company have locked …
Associated Press:
Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests  —  ISTANBUL (AP) — Dense clouds of acrid, choking tear gas may have been blanketing the central square of Turkey's largest city, but it was penguins that dominated the evening on one of the country's largest private television stations.
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Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph:
Turkey protests: how activists stay one step ahead with social media  —  Turkish activists are evading the authorities thanks to innovative use of the internet, while hacker group Anonymous announces further attacks on government assets.  Jennifer O'Mahony reports on the battle for information in Turkey.
Gaby Dunn / Daily Dot:
A talk with Rob Hart, the photographer behind “Laid Off From the Sun-Times”  —  Rob Hart was laid off from the Chicago Sun-Times as part of the paper's much-maligned decision to get rid of its entire photo staff (28 people, including Pulitzer Prize winners) and replace them with reporters with iPhones.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Rally planned for laid-off Sun-Times photographers
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The micropublishing explosion has begun  —  Last week, Marco Arment announced that he has sold The Magazine to the minimalist iOS publication's executive editor, Glenn Fleishman.  Arment said he had accidentally built a business he was ill-suited to running.
Discussion: PR Newswire and Business Insider
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Pitchfork Media Fades to Film With The Dissolve  —  The pure-play publisher is rolling out its new site in July.  —  The alternative music site, Pitchfork, recently announced that it will launch a sister film site in July titled The Dissolve.  Former A.V. Club editor, Keith Phipps …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Shift Ad Focus to Support New Music Service  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), planning to unveil a music-streaming service next week, is revamping how it sells mobile advertising to cater to businesses eager to reach customers as they listen to songs, people familiar with the changes said.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
John Malone's Liberty Global Names Dana Strong COO of Virgin Media  —  The cable industry veteran has worked at UPC Ireland and will move to the U.K. cable giant, whose acquisition Liberty Global is expected to close in the coming days.  —  LONDON - John Malone's Liberty Global continues …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CBS Sports Ups David Berson to President  —  CBS has made a big promotion, upping CBS Sports Network chief David Berson to president of CBS Sports.  —  Berson will continue to report to CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus, and will add day-to-day responsibility of the division to his plate.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Notes from the tabloid détente: Colin Myler's bid to remake the ‘Daily News’  —  “We are a tabloid newspaper,” said Colin Myler.  —  The Daily News editor-in-chief was on the phone one morning about a month ago, just a few hours before a two-day period in which more than two dozen of the paper's journalists lost their jobs.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Matt Zoller Seitz Named Editor of RogerEbert.com  —  Matt Zoller Seitz is taking over as editor of RogerEbert.com.  Seitz joined New York as its television critic in January of 2012.  He will continue in that role while overseeing content, and contributing reviews, personal blogs and more to RogerEbert.com.
Discussion: RogerEbert.com and @deggans
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown  —  In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement.
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Operation: Stop Bruce Karsh From Selling Tribune to the Koch Brothers  —  The left's biggest bogeymen could snap up the ailing Tribune Company, and with it the ‘Los Angeles Times.’ David Freedlander reports on the effort to stop the billionaires—and whether it extends to the newsroom.
Discussion: LA Observed
Josh Chin / China Real Time Report:
Tiananmen Effect: ‘Big Yellow Duck’ a Banned Term … Censors at China's top Twitter-like microblogging site blocked searches for “big yellow duck” and removed the candle icon used to express mourning as part of the country's annual June 4 David-and-Goliath face-off pitting Chinese Internet users eager …
Kathryn Brenzel / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Libya, new media freedom is uncertain  —  A post-Qaddafi abundance of independent news has been followed by violence against journalists  —  The post-revolutionary euphoria that followed Libya's 2011 uprising against dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi spawned dozens of new media outlets—at least 69, by some counts.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix, Hulu Dominate Mobile TV Viewing … The bulk of TV content watched on smartphones and tablets today is provided through Netflix and Hulu Plus — not networks or pay TV providers, according to a new study.  —  About 64% of TV shows viewed on smartphones and 54% on tablets were via Netflix …
 
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Discussion: Multichannel, Variety and FierceCable
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Corp. CFO Talks Netflix, Aereo
Tim Wu / New Republic:
The Right to Evade Regulation
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Gregory Warner / NPR:
For Young Somali Journalists, Work Often Turns Deadly
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Bradley Manning: Patriotic whistle-blower or American traitor?
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘The Chilling Effect’ Is Here  —  On Sunday, New York Times …
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Advertising on Social Media Bumps Up Against Free Speech
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Jordan Blocks Local Access to 300 News Web Sites
Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:
UK considers stepping up Internet blocking
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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