Mediagazer: Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service (John McDermott/AdAge)

9:40 PM ET, June 5, 2013

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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 …

Discussion: The New York Observer, @marcatracy and Gawker

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

Andy Mannix / The Blotter:

Wisconsin Republicans want to kick investigative journalism center off UW campus — Rep. John Nygen (left) says the center can find housing elsewhere; Andy Hall, the nonprofit's executive director, says he was “blindsided” by the news. — Wisconsin Republicans want to boot …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, WisconsinWatch.org, @brizzyc and FOI FYI

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: Ask The Post, Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Wonkblog, The Huffington Post, @rajunarisetti, Guardian, NetNewsCheck Latest, DCist, Slate, Nieman Journalism Lab and Journalism.co.uk

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.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest

David Dishneau and Eric Tucker / Associated Press:

Bradley Manning Trial Characterized By Secrecy, Security — FORT MEADE, Md. — Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial over the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified documents has been all about secrecy and security, and his trial has taken on a cloak and dagger feel, too.

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Bradley Manning Trial Mostly Ignored By TV

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog and The Castro Biscuit

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 …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Rebekah Brooks Pleads Not Guilty to Phone-Hacking, Corruption Charges

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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, GigaOM, Mashable, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, PolicyMic and Motherboard

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.

Discussion: Forbes, The Corsair, Poynter, The Week, The New York Observer, RT, peHUB, @edmundlee, Talking Biz News, PandoDaily, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and DealBook

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, App Advice, SportsBusiness Daily, Light Reading and Corporate Intelligence

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 …

Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

Feds: More Research Into Link Between Media and Violence Should Be a Priority — National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine said existing research is inadequate — Declaring that detailed scientific research on the impact of media violence on gun violence is sorely lacking …

Discussion: CNET and Broadcasting & Cable

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 …

Discussion: AdAge, paidContent and Kirk LaPointe's …

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 …

John McDermott / AdAge:

Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service — New Ad Product Could Be Pricier Than Pandora, Thanks to Targeting Abilities — Now hear this: Apple will sell audio ads on its forthcoming streaming music service, already being dubbed “iRadio” by many.

Discussion: CNET, Mashable, Electronista, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and App Advice

Roger Parloff / Fortune:

US v. Apple could go to the Supreme Court — The unique facts of Apple's case will make it a singularly sympathetic one to today's markedly pro-business Supreme Court—if the case reaches it. — FORTUNE — After Monday's opening statements in the government's federal antitrust case against Apple …

Discussion: paidContent and iDownloadBlog.com

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

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Top-Earning Chief in New Media — Meanwhile, Larry Page, Mayer's old boss at Google, ranks last with just $1 in pay. — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's $36.6 million of compensation last year makes her the top-earning new media chief executive, according to analysis from SNL Kagan.

Discussion: SNL Financial