Mediagazer: Bloomberg Hiring Social Media Director With Friendster Experience (Peter Sterne/Betabeat)

7:10 PM ET, June 4, 2013

Top News:

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: canada.com, nowtoronto.com and PolicyMic

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: @zeynep and The Independent

Associated Press:
Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @zeynep, @zeynep, @p_zalewski, @zeynep, GlobalPost and Telegraph

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 …

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

Gaby Dunn / Daily Dot: A talk with Rob Hart, the photographer behind “Laid Off From the Sun-Times”

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 …

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

Washington Post:

Hacker Adrian Lamo testifies at Bradley Manning court-martial — The hacker who alerted federal authorities to the alleged leak of classified documents by Pfc. Bradley E. Manning testified Tuesday that the young Army analyst never indicated any desire to help U.S. adversaries by releasing the material.

Discussion: Associated Press, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The Advocate and Al Jazeera Blogs

Anna Mulrine / Christian Science Monitor: Bradley Manning: Patriotic whistle-blower or American traitor?

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.

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 …

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

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, Business Insider and The Daily Caller

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

Peter Sterne / Betabeat:

Bloomberg Hiring Social Media Director With Friendster Experience — Bloomberg's next Global Social Media Director (Getty Images) — Did you have a Friendster? Were you popular on Myspace for a time? Then you (and only you) might be qualified to be Bloomberg's new Global Social Media Director.

Discussion: @kenli729, @kenli729 and @antderosa

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

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 …