Top News:
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Documentary series “The Sixties” boosts CNN at end of rough month for cable news — ‘Sixties’ a bright spot for CNN — NEW YORK (AP) — During some perilous times for the cable news networks, CNN is relieved to find there's still some resonance to the 1960s.

Near Kiev in Ukraine, journalists celebrate freedom of expression by digging through documents — Restoring press freedom in Ukraine with the Yanukovych Leaks — For the last three years in Ukraine, 6 June has been known as journalist's day. Journalists and activists have gathered outside …
Discussion:
@wireduk, McClatchy Washington Bureau and RT

Nigerian army raids newspaper depots — The Nigerian army has carried out raids on distribution centres handling several of leading national newspapers. — The newspapers said their delivery vans had been searched and vendors questioned across the country, and copies of the papers destroyed.
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trying to understand arcane state tax rule shows need for local explanatory journalism — The case for Voxsplaining the local news — My adventures in understanding North Carolina's privilege license tax — CHARLESTON, SC - Last week, North Carolina's Republican governor, Pat McCrory …
Discussion:
@jawtry, @jayrosen_nyu, @neil_irwin and @yurivictor

Serious satirical sites cash in on readers' willingness to believe news that fits their views — The Onion is funny. These other sites aren't—and that's intentional. They're cashing in on your gullibility and knee-jerk outrage. — There's nothing that gets American journalists quite …
Discussion:
@harvard_law, @sonnybunch, @tnr, @radleybalko, @teleskiguy, @marcsobel and @tnr

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.
Discussion:
BBC, @tarekfatah, @azmatzahra, Committee to Protect …, Associated Press, @smitaprakash, @addushareef, @declanwalsh, indiatoday.intoday.in, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English, Thanks:@waqasaday

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 …

Congressional hearing suggests first sale doctrine won't apply to digital goods anytime soon — 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 …
Discussion:
@mdash

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 …
Discussion:
Leichtman Research Group, @zimbalist, WebProNews, Deadline.com and VideoNuze Analysis

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.

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.
Discussion:
@saphiracat and @amjourreview

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.
Discussion:
Publishers Weekly, Gigaom, Businessweek, Guardian, Los Angeles Times and HBR.org