Mediagazer: Cord-Cutting Is Real, and the Cable Guys Are Still in Great Shape

5:30 PM ET, June 4, 2013

Top News:

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.

Discussion: @zeynep, @p_zalewski, @zeynep and GlobalPost

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: The Independent

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 …

Discussion: Amazon.com, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, AdAge, Globe and Mail, TechCrunch, The Wrap, Digits, Variety, Gizmodo, Home Media Magazine, paidContent, Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post, Pocket-lint, CNET and WebProNews

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.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Rally planned for laid-off Sun-Times photographers

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and chicagonewsguild.org

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

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

CBS Corp. CFO Talks Netflix, Aereo — “We're not seeing much consumer demand” for Aereo, Joe Ianniello tells an investor conference in London. — LONDON - CBS Corp. is not worrying too much about the consumer appeal of Aereo, which provides broadcast TV shows online …

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.

Discussion: Side-Line, ZDNet, GigaOM, CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, App Advice, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors and ReadWrite

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.

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 …

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 …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Liberty Global Shareholders Approve Virgin Media Acquisition

Discussion: The Irish Times, Herald, IP&TV News, RTÉ, Mobile News Online and Silicon Republic

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 …

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, CBS News, The Daily Caller and Business Insider

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

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.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable

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

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