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4:40 PM ET, June 6, 2014

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ Editor: Losing Snowden Scoop ‘Really Painful’  —  When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made the fateful decision to share sensitive documents with reporters revealing secret and mass gathering of the metadata associated with the phone calls made by tens …
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.
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.
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
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
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
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: bizjournals and Valleywag
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.
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.
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 …
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Fairfax to move Pagemasters sub editing contract to New Zealand  —  Fairfax Media has announced it is ending the sub editing of its newspapers by Pagemasters, in a move that will see up to 40 journalist positions moved from Australian to its New Zealand.  —  The decision to move the subediting …
Discussion: @paulwiggins
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Lord Coe confirms he is considering applying to be chairman of BBC Trust  —  Tory peer and London 2012 Olympics boss was approached by government about role last month  —  Lord Coe has confirmed that he is seriously considering applying to be the next chairman of the BBC Trust.
Discussion: BBC
 
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
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Ziff Davis Acquires emedia Communications
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Huff Post Launches New Video Series Fueled by Booze
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