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9:45 PM ET, June 4, 2013

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Turkish Protestors Take To IndieGoGo, Raise Over $50,000 For Full-Page New York Times Ad  —  Protests erupted in Turkey last week, fueled by government plans to redevelop an urban park and build a shopping mall and military barracks, among other things.  Protestors gathered in Gezi Park …
Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, nbcbayarea.com and BBC
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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.
Discussion: Slate, The Independent and @zeynep
The Huffington Post:
Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests
John Cook / Gawker:
The Rob Ford Crack Video Might Be “Gone”  —  Before the Rob Ford Crackstarter—our crowdfunding effort to purchase and publish a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine—reached its $200,000 goal last month, we let everyone know that we had lost contact with the people who have custody of the video.
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Penguin CEO takes stand in Apple e-books antitrust case  —  (Reuters) - The chief executive of U.S. publisher Penguin testified Tuesday that a provision in its e-books contract with Apple Inc played a role in a decision to change its contracts with other retailers, such as Amazon.com Inc.
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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 …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
There Is At Least One Potential Buyer For Newsweek  —  Barry Diller is so anxious to be rid of Newsweek, he can't even be bothered to hide it.  But all his badmouthing hasn't completely killed interest in the 80-year-old title.  —  Digital First Media is among the parties taking a look at Newsweek's books …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Politico's Jim VandeHei on why Bloomberg is a scary competitor and subscriptions will keep growing  —  In a Q&A, Politco's executive editor talks about how to stay relevant as your media company gets older, how to grow in a saturated Washington market, and why he barely watches TV.
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 …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Rally planned for laid-off Sun-Times photographers  —  The Chicago News Guild will picket the Chicago Sun-Times building Thursday morning, the Guild said in a press release.  —  The Sun-Times laid off its photo staff last week and announced plans to train reporters in iPhone photography.
Bob Cohn / Folio:
The Mystery of Dark Social  —  Dark social accounts for about one-quarter of all referrals to our sites.  —  That rainbow of lines you get from your analytics team in those monthly reports aims to give you a quick snapshot of the different sources of traffic to your websites.
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
Bloomberg:
Hulu Bidders Bring Range of Strategies to Takeover Fight  —  Hulu Bidding Free-for-All: Why Everyone Wants It  —  At least seven bidders are said to be interested in acquiring Hulu LLC, and their divergent motivations in pursuing the deal could end up radically altering the strategy of the online-television service.
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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The Atlantic Wire:
The U.S. Government Asked the AP for $1 Million for Secret Email Addresses
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Washington Post:
Hacker Adrian Lamo testifies at Bradley Manning court-martial
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Pitchfork Media Fades to Film With The Dissolve
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Cord-Cutting Is Real, and the Cable Guys Are Still in Great Shape - For Now
Discussion: Variety, BGR, FierceCable and Multichannel
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Notes from the tabloid détente: Colin Myler's bid to remake the ‘Daily News’
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Corp. CFO Talks Netflix, Aereo
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CBS Sports Ups David Berson to President
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Shift Ad Focus to Support New Music Service
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Matt Zoller Seitz Named Editor of RogerEbert.com
Discussion: RogerEbert.com and @deggans
Kathryn Brenzel / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Libya, new media freedom is uncertain
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
The micropublishing explosion has begun
Discussion: PR Newswire and Business Insider
Tim Wu / New Republic:
The Right to Evade Regulation
Discussion: bookforum.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix, Hulu Dominate Mobile TV Viewing
Gregory Warner / NPR:
For Young Somali Journalists, Work Often Turns Deadly