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3:20 AM ET, June 5, 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 …
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The Huffington Post:
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.
Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph:
Turkey protests: how activists stay one step ahead with social media
Discussion: @zeynep and The Independent
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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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 …
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.
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
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.
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Wonkette: The snark survives  —  Wonkette is not what it used to be.  —  Gone are the Vanity Fair photo shoots about the website's popularity.  Long past are those very public and nasty feuds with Washington politicos.  So long to all of those “hot” and “heat-seeking” lists.
Discussion: Wonkette and FishbowlDC
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.
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Gaby Dunn / Daily Dot:
A talk with Rob Hart, the photographer behind “Laid Off From the Sun-Times”
Discussion: Melville House Books
Laura Amico / Nieman Reports:
Calm at the Kitchen Table: A Start-up Tracks Murder in Washington, D.C.  —  How small newsrooms can have big impacts  —  There's an energy to big, busy newsrooms that's unlike any other.  Reporters and editors tapping away on keyboards, muttering through copy, interviews taking place …
Jan Schaffer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A new kind of activist journalism: When finding solutions are part of journalists' job, too  —  Four years ago, UrbanMilwaukee.com zeroed in on South 2nd Street, a pocked roadway in the city's Walker's Point section that seemed “ripe for improvement,” said site co-founder David Reid.
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.
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 …
 
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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Discussion: FishbowlNY and NY Daily News
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Matt Zoller Seitz Named Editor of RogerEbert.com
Discussion: RogerEbert.com and @deggans
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hola, Dora! Amazon Locks Up the Viacom Kids Shows Netflix Doesn't Have Anymore
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
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
John Malone's Liberty Global Names Dana Strong COO of Virgin Media
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
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