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8:45 AM ET, June 5, 2013

Top News:

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, nbcbayarea.com, VentureBeat, New York Times and BBC

AFP:

Turkey police detain protesters over ‘libellous’ tweets — Turkey police detained at least 25 people early on Wednesday in the western city of Izmir for tweeting ‘misinformation,’ state-run Anatolia news agency reported, as anti-government protests raged for a sixth day across the country.

Discussion: The Independent, International Business Times, Legal news from FindLaw … and en.europeonline-magazine.eu

Associated Press:
Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests

Discussion: Associated Press, @markknoller, New York Times, The Huffington Post, @zeynep, @zeynep, @p_zalewski, @zeynep, GlobalPost and Telegraph

Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph:
Turkey protests: how activists stay one step ahead with social media

Discussion: Fars News Agency, globaltimes.cn, @zeynep and The Independent

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Rebekah Brooks Pleads Not Guilty to Phone-Hacking, Corruption Charges — The former CEO of News International, the U.K. publishing arm of News Corp., appeared in a London court along with nine other defendants, including husband Charlie. — LONDON - Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International …

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press, Associated Press, Daily Mail and Guardian

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.

Discussion: MediaShift Idea Lab, nowtoronto.com, canada.com and PolicyMic

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.

Discussion: AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Cult of Mac and Corporate Intelligence

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 …

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

BBC Digital Media Initiative project doomed to failure, Lord Patten was told — Technology chief warned trust chairman a year ago of concerns over scrapped content management system that cost £98.4m — BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten was warned a year ago that the Digital Media …

Steve Donohue / FierceCable:

Britt: Time Warner Cable talking to Apple, Microsoft, Samsung about streaming video deals — Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) is talking to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Samsung about streaming video deals similar to its pact with Roku, CEO Glenn Britt said Tuesday at an investor conference in London.

Discussion: App Advice, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and Electronista

Jim Romenesko:

China surpasses India to become the world's biggest newspaper market — Since 2008 circulation in America has fallen by 15% to 41 million while advertising revenue has plummeted by 42%, accounting for three-quarters of the global decline in advertising revenue in the same period.

Emily Moore / WAN-IFRA:

Palestinian press centre opens to provide “haven of neutrality” — A new Palestinian press centre was inaugurated in Gaza on Tuesday 28 May, reported French newspaper, Libération, hailing it a promising “haven of neutrality” for the Palestinian media world.

Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

The U.S. Government Asked the AP for $1 Million for Secret Email Addresses — The Associated Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the secret email addresses of appointed administration employees, and a Labor Department spokesman came back with an offer: you can have the emails if you give us a million bucks.

Discussion: Associated Press, FishbowlDC and Slate

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.

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.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and chicagonewsguild.org