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3:40 PM ET, June 4, 2014

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Julien Girault / Agence France-Presse:
China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory  —  Beijing (AFP) - China's vast censorship machine does its utmost to wipe the slightest reference to the Tiananmen crackdown from books, television and the Internet, scrubbing the issue from public discussion and even from the minds of its younger generation.
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Joseph Weber / Washington Post:
Chinese journalists are beginning to fight their government's censorship
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Kushner's Freedom newspapers lurched from one strategy to another; print focus isn't working  —  The newsonomics of the Orange County Register's swerves all over the freeway  —  Pity Aaron Kushner's poor driving instructor.  We can easily imagine the then-16-year-old's driving inclinations as he first took the wheel.
Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
NYT launches NYT Opinion, a $6/month subscription and app for op-eds, editorials, and curated online commentary  —  Announcing NYT Opinion  —  Today, I'm proud to say, we are launching NYT Opinion.  It's the first time we have offered a stand-alone subscription to all of The New York …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix Nags Another New Partner, Blaming Verizon for Slow Streams  —  Earlier this year, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Comcast, then complained about it.  —  Here's a new version of the story: In April, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Verizon.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Byliner, an Online Publisher of Long-Form Writing, Seeks Partners  —  Byliner, a company that publishes long, literary journalism and fiction online and as e-books, told its contributors Tuesday that it has been struggling and is seeking partners to ensure its future.  —  The company started in 2011 with some fanfare.
Discussion: PandoDaily and Gigaom
Sridhar Pappu / WWD:
Roger Angell, at 93, talks about his five decades at The New Yorker  —  M: Roger Angell, A Hall-of-Famer at 93  —  Roger Angell goes to work almost every day at The New Yorker, where he has been a writer and editor since 1956.  Earlier this year, an essay he wrote for the magazine …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AT&T Says Bulking Up With DirecTV Will Help It Squash Programming Costs  —  The guys who sell you pay TV say they wish they didn't have to keep raising your rates.  It's just that the guys selling pay-TV programming keep raising their rates.  —  In theory, one way to stop or slow those hikes …
Marwaan Macan-Markar / Nikkei Asian Review:
Thai coup darkens dawn of digital TV  —  BANGKOK — Gleaming new television studios across Bangkok were preparing to unveil a slew of fresh programs to launch Thailand's digital broadcasting age.  The big day was May 25, when 24 commercial stations, which had invested billions of baht …
Peter Y. Hong / LA Weekly:
At LA Times, Dean Baquet sought out stories that had been killed and resurrected them  —  At the L.A. Times, Dean Baquet Dispatched a Strike Force to Rescue Stories Held Hostage  —  In 2000, a few months after Dean Baquet became managing editor of the Los Angeles Times …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Columbia University's Bill Grueskin to join Bloomberg as executive training editor  —  Bill Grueskin to join Bloomberg L.P.  —  Bill Grueskin, a Wall Street Journal veteran and academic dean at the Columbia Journalism School, is joining Bloomberg L.P. in a role that will help streamline …
Discussion: @bgrueskin
 
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