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12:40 PM ET, June 3, 2014

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Heritage Foundation starts an online site to cover unreported and under-reported news  —  It's not enough to be a newsmaker these days, as the conservative Heritage Foundation surely has been with its vigorous opposition to federal budget deficits, Obamacare, immigrant “amnesty” and same-sex marriage.
Neil Midgley / Forbes:
BBC News Division To Cut 500 Jobs  —  I can exclusively report today that the BBC News is preparing to announce 500 more job losses, as part of its ongoing cost-cutting programme, and that industrial action could well follow.  Including new cuts to BBC Radio, the corporation is facing a total of between 550 and 600 redundancies.
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Management isn't journalism's strong suit  —  And running a newsroom is hard and getting harder  —  Newsrooms have long hired and promoted based on journalistic chops, and often that alone.  The problem, of course, is what makes for a great reporter doesn't necessarily make for a great boss.
Keith Richburg / Poynter:
On eve of Tiananmen anniversary, early optimism pushed aside by press, speech crackdown  —  Two years ago in China, during the run-up to the Communist Party's ritual changing of the guard, there was a heady mood of expectation that the country's new top leaders might revive long-stalled political reform …
Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia:
Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines secures $100M funding, led by Sequoia Capital  —  The simple news reader app that's taking China by storm just netted $100 million funding from Sequoia Capital  —  The developer of Chinese news reader app Today's Headlines () today announced it has secured US$100 million in funding.
Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkey unblocks access to YouTube after 67 days … The Telecommunications Directorate (TB) unblocked access to YouTube on June 3, some 67 days after a ban that triggered global criticism of the Turkish government's tightening grip on the Internet.  —  The decision entered into force …
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing launch anti-NSA surveillance campaign  —  The Reset the Net campaign aims to encourage direct action, urging visitors to install privacy and encryption tools  —  Some of the world's largest websites are planning a coordinated day of action on Thursday to oppose mass surveillance online.
John McDermott / Digiday:
How Vogue is making (a little) money on Instagram  —  Those in the market for a new scarf — or, for that matter, those who prefer to wear scarves as belts — can now save themselves a trip to the store and buy the Steven Alan item featured below directly from a Vogue Instagram post.
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Turner CEO John Martin Sends Internal Memo Signaling Staff Changes, Cost Cutting  —  Turner Broadcasting CEO John Martin sent a memo to his staff on Monday announcing a new “Turner 2020” initiative and likely staff changes.  TheWrap obtained the correspondence, which is posted below.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Hachette Chief Leads Book Publishers in Amazon Fight  —  As a young book editor at Little, Brown & Company in 1992, Michael Pietsch paid $80,000 — $45,000 more than the next-highest bidder — for a postmodern novel by a little-known writer named David Foster Wallace.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Hostwriter launches as a platform for journalists to share info, sources, and accommodation  —  How Hostwriter wants to connect journalists around the world  —  Journalism is well-known as a competitive industry but there are many cases where working together on a story can reap bigger rewards …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Time Inc. Buys Family Organizer App Maker Cozi Inc.  —  Real Simple publisher Charlie Kammerer to manage advertising for the product.  —  Add another acquisition to Time Inc.'s pre-spinoff checklist.  The company announced today that it acquired Seattle-based Cozi Inc., maker of a family-oriented calendar, organizer and planning app.
 
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