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7:00 PM ET, June 15, 2013

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Agence France Presse:
BBC suspends ties with Turkey's NTV over protests coverage  —  LONDON — The BBC announced on Friday it has suspended its partnership with Turkey's private NTV channel after it pulled a programme on press freedom and the anti-government protests.  —  NTV decided not to broadcast an edition …
Discussion: bbc.co.uk
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped?  —  It's been a good week for old media.  The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have all done a superb job of reporting on the NSA/PRISM revelations.  Unfortunately it has also been a terrible decade for them.
Discussion: @peretti
Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Sneak Preview: Matter's Inaugural Class of New-Media Startups  —  On Wednesday, Matter, an accelerator for media startups in San Francisco, gave Venture Capital Dispatch a sneak peek at the companies graduating from its inaugural class, Matter One. … As VentureWire previously reported …
Discussion: AllThingsD and PandoDaily
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Politics: some / Politics: none.  Two ways to excel in political journalism.  Neither dominates.  —  “Edward Snowden's decision to leak to Greenwald, and Glenn's domination of newsland for several days, tells us that politics: none is not the only way of excelling in journalism.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Bloomberg Reporters' Practices Become Crucial Issue for Company  —  Most journalists dream of uncovering government corruption, landing a big interview or winning a Pulitzer Prize.  But those are not the goals that Thomas F. Secunda, who co-founded Bloomberg L.P. in 1982 with Michael R. Bloomberg, has in mind.
Erik Wemple:
CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson's computer  —  CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised.  When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.
Shawn W. Crispin / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Burma falters, backtracks on press freedom  —  The media landscape in Burma is more open than ever, as President Thein Sein releases imprisoned journalists and abolishes the former censorship regime.  But many threats and obstacles to truly unfettered reporting remain, including restrictive laws held …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
The Atlantic launches weekly iPhone magazine for $2.99 a month  —  The Atlantic's anticipated paid product is now here in the form of a weekly collection of curated content.  —  In April, Atlantic Media President Justin Smith teased the idea of a paid product at PaidContent Live.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Examiner says goodbye to daily edition  —  The Washington Examiner published its last local daily edition today.  It will become “a digital platform and weekly print magazine focused on political thought leadership,” the company announced in March.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS' Les Moonves Escapes Deposition in Aereo Case  —  The executive won't have to explain comments like “Aereo is not a problem, it's been blown way out of proportion.”  —  In the ongoing legal battle over Aereo, the upstart digital TV distributor won't be able to ask CBS CEO Leslie Moonves …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Venerable Format of ‘NewsHour’ Struggles With New Era of Media  —  For many of its 38 years, the sober studio-interview format of the “PBS NewsHour” has served the program well, drawing viewers and corporate underwriters alike.  But with a deep financing crisis forcing layoffs and other cutbacks this week …
 
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Yahoo's Head of Middle East and Africa Departs for New Social TV Startup Aimed at Emerging Markets
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How Top Publishers Handle ‘Sponsored Content’
Discussion: @alexismadrigal and @jeffjarvis
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry
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From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

David Cassel / The New Stack:
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more
 
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