Mediagazer: Behind the scenes with David Streitfeld, the NYT reporter who broke the Amazon/Hachette story (Kristen Hare/Poynter)

10:15 AM ET, June 7, 2014

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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.

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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet (AP Photo/Bill Haber) — NPR's David Folkenflik has a revealing new look at what I have long believed is one of the most important journalistic stories of the last decade …

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music? — People can be surprised to discover that they don't actually own the digital books and songs they buy, but that they instead rent them from large companies like Amazon and Apple. In response, Congress is asking whether copyright law …

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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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 …

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.

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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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