Mediagazer: The micropublishing explosion has begun (Hamish McKenzie/PandoDaily)

1:45 PM ET, June 4, 2013

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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 …

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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: chicagonewsguild.org and JIMROMENESKO.COM

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

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:

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

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix, Hulu Dominate Mobile TV Viewing … The bulk of TV content watched on smartphones and tablets today is provided through Netflix and Hulu Plus — not networks or pay TV providers, according to a new study. — About 64% of TV shows viewed on smartphones and 54% on tablets were via Netflix …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest, MediaPost and Digital Media Wire

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.

Kathryn Brenzel / Columbia Journalism Review:

In Libya, new media freedom is uncertain — A post-Qaddafi abundance of independent news has been followed by violence against journalists — The post-revolutionary euphoria that followed Libya's 2011 uprising against dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi spawned dozens of new media outlets—at least 69, by some counts.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

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 …

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

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

Gregory Warner / NPR:

For Young Somali Journalists, Work Often Turns Deadly … Shabelle Media is Somalia's largest news outlet — and a very dangerous place to work. Of the 12 journalists gunned down in the country last year, four were reporting for Shabelle. — A number of the reporters are teenagers, some as young as 15.

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

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown — In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement.