Mediagazer: Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel (Declan Walsh/New York Times)

3:55 PM ET, June 7, 2014

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Declan Walsh / New York Times:

Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel — LONDON — The Pakistani government on Friday suspended the broadcasting license of Geo News, a popular television channel, in a major escalation of Geo's dispute with the country's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jim Brady plans news org in Philly called Brother.ly — Jim Brady plans to create a Philadelphia-based “news service that will seek to cultivate audiences currently disengaged from traditional news products,” Temple University's Center for Public Interest Journalism says.

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

The Riveter celebrates its second print issue with more longform journalism by women — Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz have spent the past year helping to change the ratio of women to men in longform journalism. — Today, they're publishing the second print issue of The Riveter …

Zainab Mudallal / American Journalism Review:

College Isn't Just About the Food, It's About Writing About the Food — [Editor's Note: This is one in an AJR series about media startups.] — When Mackenzie Barth, a junior at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, moved off campus, she struggled with cooking and shopping for groceries.

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

YouTube Co-Founders Split As Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Chen Joins Google Ventures — Consider this the end of an era. After 15 years of working together, first at PayPal and then at YouTube and most recently at incubator Avos Systems, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are headed in different directions.

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Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Behind the scenes with David Streitfeld, the NYT reporter who broke the Amazon/Hachette story — David Streitfeld on Amazon: 'They don't care if they're liked' — Around 1998, David Streitfeld gave Jeff Bezos a quick tour of The Washington Post. It really wasn't a big deal.

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The New York Times can't abandon print—yet — It would immediately swing to a big loss — Everyone in the news business feels a sense of urgency these days, as well they should. — But there's urgency, and then there's panic. The Times's innovation report, which made a splash …

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Media analyst makes case for 21st Century Fox-Time Warner deal — Could archenemies Fox News and CNN one day be brothers? — Sounds crazy but a new report by media analyst Tony Wible of Janney Capital Markets suggests that a merger between media giants 21st Century Fox and Time Warner makes a lot of sense.

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Close to half of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus — Survey says: we are a Netflix nation. — Forty-seven percent of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime or a combination of these services, and 49 percent of all households …

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Titillation or Illumination on The Times's New ‘Sin Beat’? — Mosi Secret's new beat — sin in New York City — has already resulted in a big spread in last Sunday's Metropolitan section, an article in The New York Observer and a lot of Twitter traffic. — It has also resulted in quite …

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