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7:00 PM ET, June 6, 2014

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Google in talks to buy music streamer Songza, has offered about $15M, says source  —  Google in talks to buy music streaming company Songza  —  Larry Page is moving fast to build his search giant's street cred in the rapidly-growing music streaming business.
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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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ Editor: Losing Snowden Scoop ‘Really Painful’
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.
Discussion: Gawker and bizjournals
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.
Discussion: FierceCable
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 …
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Raises Possibility of Offering NFL Sunday Ticket to Wireless Customers  —  Phone Giant Looks to Convince Wall Street Its $49 Billion DirecTV Acquisition Has Strategic Value  —  AT&T Inc. is floating the possibility of offering DirecTV's National Football League Sunday Ticket programming …
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Mashable to launch Australian operation poaching Jenni Ryall from News.com.au  —  Technology and social media news website Mashable is to launch an Australian operation and has appointed News.com.au multimedia editor Jenni Ryall as its editor.  —  The move was announced overnight and also sees the website …
Discussion: AdNews, TheAustralian and FishbowlNY
Aleksandar Vasovic / Reuters:
Serbia indicts four for Milosevic-era journalist murder  —  (Reuters) - Serbia's top state prosecutor charged four former state security officers on Friday over the 1999 killing of opposition newspaper publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija during the rule of late strongman president Slobodan Milosevic.
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Pakistan Suspends License of Leading TV News Channel  —  LONDON — The Pakistani government on Friday suspended the broadcasting license of Geo News, a popular television news channel, in a major escalation of a bruising dispute with the country's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
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.
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 …
Discussion: @palafo and New York Magazine
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Matthew Kassel / The New York Observer:
Meet Mosi Secret, The Times' New Sin and Vice Reporter
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Tom Meagher:
Cultural and technical lessons learned while leading the Thunderdome's data team that I never learned at newspapers  —  Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the internet  —  Over 21 months at Thunderdome, we created a lot of great projects, from interactive graphics …
 
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax to move Pagemasters sub editing contract to New Zealand
Discussion: @paulwiggins
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Lord Coe confirms he is considering applying to be chairman of BBC Trust
Discussion: BBC
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Digital Growth to Prop Up Magazine Revenue Amid Print Losses, PwC Forecasts
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Desktop/laptop computers still dominate sports consumption
Discussion: @abeaujon and @coversjon
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
On the front lines of the battle over the press pass
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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