Mediagazer: UK Police Launch Campaign to Shut Down Torrent Sites (Andy/TorrentFreak)

10:45 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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AFP:
Turkey police detain protesters over ‘libellous’ tweets

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, RT, PressTV, Motherboard, The Independent, International Business Times and Legal news from FindLaw …

Associated Press:
Turkish Media Slammed For Ignoring Massive Protests

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

Discussion: The Hindu, 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 …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Met police officer jailed for selling celebrity tip-offs to the Sun — Paul Flattley made £7,600 from providing information about stars including Kate Middleton and Zara Phillips to the red-top — A former Metropolitan police officer who had access to private information …

Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Wireless Pads NFL Deal — Multiyear, $1 Billion Deal Will Give Customers Access to Local Games on Phones — Verizon Wireless will pay $1 billion for rights to air more NFL games over its customers' smartphones, placing a big bet on changing viewer habits as Americans watch …

Discussion: @jbflint, Light Reading and Corporate Intelligence

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Bloomberg Begins Fund to Invest in Start-Ups — SAN FRANCISCO — In the increasingly clubby world of Silicon Valley, some might say it was almost inevitable that Bloomberg L.P., the parent of Bloomberg News, would start its own venture capital firm to invest in start-ups, including some that its technology reporters write about.

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Keith Olbermann Returning to TV on Turner (Exclusive) — The former Current and MSNBC anchor will lead TBS' studio coverage of the Major League Baseball postseason. — After a messy public breakup with his last employer resulted in a $50 million lawsuit, Keith Olbermann will return …

Discussion: TIME and TVNewser

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The CIA Invests in Narrative Science and Its Automated Writers — Narrative Science has already proven that its robot writers can make sentences that are good enough for newspapers and internal company reports. Now they're going to work for the CIA. — The Chicago-based startup …

Discussion: Poynter

Steven Mufson / Washington Post:

Washington Post to phase in a paid online subscription model — The Washington Post will phase in a paid online subscription model for Web content starting June 12, charging some readers $9.99 a month for access to more than 20 articles a month on desktop and mobile devices.

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Ask The Post and @rajunarisetti

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

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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

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.

Discussion: Economist

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google's YouTube Triples Mobile Sales Amid Wireless Shift — Google Inc.'s YouTube has tripled advertising sales on mobile devices in the past six months, the company said, contributing as much as $350 million to the video-sharing website's revenue. — About a quarter of YouTube's 1 billion global users …

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Why Pandora wants to grow its presence on connected TVs with a new HTML5 app — Streaming music company Pandora has released a new web application for TVs, the company announced today. — The push to bring Pandora to television screens follows the company's efforts to grow the smart radio service …

Discussion: CNET, GigaOM and TechCrunch

Sky News Australia:

New News Corp boss optimistic on print — The incoming boss of News Corporation's publishing business believes there are reasons to be optimistic about the print industry as its newspapers are reshaped for the digital age. — Robert Thomson, who will head the ‘new News Corp’ once …

Andy / TorrentFreak:

UK Police Launch Campaign to Shut Down Torrent Sites — Authorities and entertainment industry companies in the UK are working together on a new initiative which targets sites said to be offering copyrighted material without permission, TorrentFreak has learned.

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Wochit's DIY newsroom platform attracts $4.75M, former Reuters executive as CEO — News moves fast, and video is an important medium for staying on top of stories as they break. — Video production platform Wochit has raised $4.75 million and hired media veteran Keith McAllister …

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