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5:48 PM ET, June 5, 2013

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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.
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Watch out, watchdogs  —  GOP-led Wisconsin legislature moves to push investigative journalists off campus  —  DETROIT, MI — At the conclusion of a marathon overnight session, Wisconsin legislators early this morning added a provision to the state budget that would expel the Wisconsin Center …
Discussion: JSOnline and WisconsinWatch.org
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
EIC Kerry Lauerman to exit Salon.com  —  Kerry Lauerman, the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, is leaving the website after thirteen years to partner with Lerer Ventures on a new start-up, POLITICO has learned.  —  Lauerman's start-up, a ‘content and commerce’ site, is expected to launch this fall …
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 …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Rebekah Brooks Pleads Not Guilty to Phone-Hacking, Corruption Charges
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Koch Eyeing Potentially Profitable Newspapers  —  WICHITA, Kan.-Charles Koch confirmed that his company, Koch Industries Inc., is looking into the possibility of acquiring newspapers, but he said it would do so only if he believed they could be operated profitably.
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.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Bradley Manning Trial Mostly Ignored By TV  —  Media coverage of the Bradley Manning trial appears to be dropping off considerably, and many outlets were not covering it very extensively to begin with.  —  Manning is fighting charges that he “aided the enemy” by passing military documents to WikiLeaks.
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David Dishneau and Eric Tucker / Associated Press:   Bradley Manning Trial Characterized By Secrecy, Security
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 …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Baba Shetty out as Newsweek CEO  —  Newsweek/Daily Beast CEO Baba Shetty is stepping down after just nine months on the job, according to a staff memo from editor-in-chief Tina Brown.  —  The news comes one week after Brown and Shetty confirmed reports that parent-company IAC was eyeing …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Global spending for media and entertainment to rise steadily  —  PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that global spending for media and entertainment will reach $2.2 trillion in 2017, compared with $1.6 trillion in 2012.  —  Digital media ¿ fueled by the expansion in ownership …
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Reader-funded journalism  —  This model is vital in sustaining real journalism: it fosters independence, invests readers in the work that is done, and keeps journalists accountable to individuals  —  Many news outlets around the world, in the age of the internet, have struggled to find …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Paywalls or No Paywalls, Newspaper Revenue Declines Seen Through 2017  —  Total Revenue Expected to Keep Declining Over the Next Four Years  —  Despite the promise of online paywalls and gains in digital readers, newspapers' total revenue will continue to decline through at least 2017, a new report said.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
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.
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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.
Ruma Paul / Reuters:
Bangladesh lifts ban on YouTube, blocked after anti-Islam film  —  (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on video-sharing site YouTube which has been blocked since September after an online anti-Islam movie spawned violent protests across the Muslim world.
Discussion: YouTube News
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 …
Discussion: paidContent
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
 
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Top-Earning Chief in New Media
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Roger Parloff / Fortune:
US v. Apple could go to the Supreme Court
Discussion: paidContent and iDownloadBlog.com
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Readmill partners with Guardian, Atavist and Livrada and adds a free book section to its app
Guardian:
British booksellers seek Amazon curb
Andy / TorrentFreak:
UK Police Launch Campaign to Shut Down Torrent Sites
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Why Pandora wants to grow its presence on connected TVs with a new HTML5 app
Discussion: Pandora Blog, hypebot and CNET
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
Wochit's DIY newsroom platform attracts $4.75M, former Reuters executive as CEO
Sky News Australia:
New News Corp boss optimistic on print
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC Digital Media Initiative project doomed to failure, Lord Patten was told
Emily Moore / WAN-IFRA:
Palestinian press centre opens to provide “haven of neutrality”
Jan Schaffer / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A new kind of activist journalism: When finding solutions are part of journalists' job, too
Laura Amico / Nieman Reports:
Calm at the Kitchen Table: A Start-up Tracks Murder in Washington, D.C.
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Wonkette: The snark survives
Discussion: LA Observed, Wonkette and FishbowlDC
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
There Is At Least One Potential Buyer For Newsweek
Discussion: The Huffington Post