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6:50 PM ET, June 16, 2013

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 Top News: 
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Hearst Magazines' one million new customers  —  Take this quiz.  The era of paying for digital access (a.k.a. digital circulation or paywalls) is about:  — Getting more money out of core subscribers;  — Getting new money out of new subscribers; or  — Getting money any way you can.
Discussion: @macloo
Michelle Salemi / Variety:
Can Local News Take On Watchdog Role?  —  Some observers think the Web is better-placed to report on civic issue  —  Can local TV news really fill the watchdog role in the 21st century that local newspapers did in the 20th?  —  CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer advanced the theory …
Mark Harris / PopWatch:
Arrested Development and the case against binge-watching  —  The best TV is as addictive as a tub of ice cream, but as Jenny Craig and the new Arrested Development episodes remind us, moderation is wise.  —  How strange that it already feels too late to talk about the return of Arrested Development.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Media, administration deal with conflicts  —  It's all but a journalistic commandment: Thou shalt not have a vested interest in the story you're covering.  Otherwise, a personal entanglement could color a reporter's neutrality or cloud public perceptions of fairness.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
 
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Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:
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Venerable Format of ‘NewsHour’ Struggles With New Era of Media
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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporting, or illegal hacking
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Bloomberg Reporters' Practices Become Crucial Issue for Company
 

 
From Techmeme:

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
 
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