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4:30 PM ET, June 4, 2014

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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.
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
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.
Tom Gara / Wall Street Journal:
1.73 Billion Hours: Pandora Gives its Last Monthly Listener Count … In March 2012, music streaming service Pandora began reporting monthly usage metrics, including the total number of hours users spent listening to the service and its share of total U.S. radio listening.
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 …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Xbox Adds 45 New Media Partners, Including Twitter, Vine, Comedy Central, And MLG  —  Microsoft has been trying for a while to make its Xbox Live platform not just a home for gamers, but also the dominant media center in the home.  Just ahead of E3, the company is taking a bigger step …
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
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 …
Ian Griggs / MediaWeek:
Four of ‘The Unquiet Film Series’ released today, depicting the values of The Times newspapers  —  Times newspapers launch film series starring writers including Caitlin Moran  —  The Times and The Sunday Times have given a selection of independent film-makers access to its staff …
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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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking trial: jury told not to be ‘dazzled’ by defendants' lifestyle
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Peter Y. Hong / LA Weekly:
At LA Times, Dean Baquet sought out stories that had been killed and resurrected them
Marwaan Macan-Markar / Nikkei Asian Review:
Thai coup darkens dawn of digital TV
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
UK Gov't Tries And Fails To Hide Details Of GHCQ/Telecoms Tapping Fiber Lines
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Agence France-Presse:
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions
 
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