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12:25 PM ET, April 30, 2014

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Ben Fischer / New York Business Journal:
The Onion to launch Clickhole.com to satirize viral sites like BuzzFeed and Upworthy  —  Finally!  The Onion is taking on BuzzFeed and Upworthy on their turf.  —  This June the satire site — stuck for now in the hopelessly 20th century business of spoofing reported, written news articles — will launch Clickhole.com.
Mike Hopkins / Hulu Blog:
Hulu will allow free viewing of select full TV episodes on mobile devices starting this summer  —  Today at the Hulu Upfront in New York City, joined by Peter Naylor, SVP of Sales, Craig Erwich, SVP Head of Content, and many of our talented stars and creators from Hulu Originals …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter and TV Working Just Fine, Says Twitter  —  Yesterday, after a top TV executive lobbed a bomb at Twitter's TV pitch, Twitter executives kept quiet.  —  But Twitter CEO Dick Costolo knew he'd get asked about NBC* research chief Alan Wurtzel's “Emperor has no clothes” comments today during his earnings call.
Discussion: Lost Remote, Engadget, Forbes and @mcproulx
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Murdoch hints at News Corp. acquisitions  —  News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch is keen on making some additions to the publishing side of his media empire, which was formally split in half nearly a year ago.  —  “News Corp. is in the first sort of, transformational year,” …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Condé Nast to Launch New Digital Brand Aggregating Video  —  Variety among the news brands named as inaugural video partners for The Scene  —  Condé Nast Entertainment sees strength in numbers in the video space-even if that means mixing its high-class brands with those outside the company.
Scott Cendrowski / Fortune:
After years of piracy, Chinese video sites are sending $100M a year to US and UK studios  —  Hollywood's new friends: The Chinese  —  After years of rampant piracy, Chinese video sites are sending $100 million a year to U.S. and U.K. studios, while creating new fans in a country with 1.3 billion potential viewers.
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Lily Kuo / Quartz:   Why China is censoring ‘The Big Bang Theory’ but not ‘Game of Thrones’
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Harper's Publisher Rick MacArthur Quits Columbia Spectator Board Because the Internet  —  Harper's publisher John “Rick” MacArthur hates the internet.  This we know.  But seriously, this guy really hates the internet, rejecting the Columbia University student paper's plan to go “web-first” …
Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defends net neutrality approach, seeks path to avoid years in court  —  Finding the Best Path Forward to Protect the Open Internet  —  I am a strong believer in the importance of an Open Internet.  As President Obama has explained, “Preserving an Open Internet …
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Diana Reese / Al Jazeera America:
In small towns with local investment, print journalism is thriving  —  MARYVILLE, Mo. — Newspapers aren't dead yet.  —  Far from it in this town of 12,000 nestled among the rolling hills of northwestern Missouri, where the daily paper has returned to local ownership for the first time in decades …
Discussion: @niemanlab and @rosental
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Lego Movie Boosts Time Warner As 1Q Profit Rises 71%  —  Time Warner Inc. said the performance of two movies - “The LEGO Movie” and “300: Rise of An Empire” -helped the company increase first quarter profit by 71%, while revenue increased at its three major divisions, the Warner Brothers studio, the Turner programming unit and HBO.
John McDermott / Digiday:
How Hearst uses Pinterest to boost traffic  —  Publishing is increasingly becoming a game of which publisher can best market its stories on social platforms, typically Facebook and Twitter.  But Hearst has experienced an unexpected but much welcomed traffic boost over the past two years from Pinterest.
Rob Tannenbaum / Rolling Stone:
Bill Simmons' Big Score: How a failed newspaper writer built a new kind of media empire at ESPN  —  How a failed newspaper writer built a new kind of media empire at ESPN  —  From Bill Simmons' fourth-row seats at the Staples Center in L.A., we're close enough to hear basketball players swearing.
Discussion: Deadspin
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Yahoo Relaunches Yahoo Travel as a Digital Magazine With Lots of Sponsored Content  —  Yahoo has relaunched Yahoo Travel with an emphasis on travel inspiration and sponsored content.  / Yahoo Travel  —  Yahoo has relaunched Yahoo Travel as an “immersive digital magazine” …
Discussion: Yahoo and iMediaConnection Blog
Paul Adepoju / HumanIPO:
BBC partners BlackBerry to deliver Hausa news via BBM in Nigeria  —  BBC has announced a partnership with BlackBerry to deliver news from its Hausa service to its users in Nigeria, offering five BBC Hausa news alerts daily via BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).  —  The new service is part of BBC's move …
Discussion: BerryReview and Rapid TV News
Asif Shahzad / Associated Press:
Amnesty urges Pakistan to probe threats to media  —  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan should investigate threats to journalists and probe its military and intelligence agencies for stifling media freedoms, Amnesty International said Wednesday.  Pakistani journalists often face threats …
Philip Galanes / New York Times:
A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine  —  If you've ever found yourself intrigued by the meltdowns of Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, puzzled by Jennifer Aniston's seemingly endless difficulty in finding romantic bliss …
John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal:
‘Super Size Me’ Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock Inks Development Deal With AP  —  The filmmaker who made “Super Size Me” has teamed up with one of the world's largest news agencies.  Morgan Spurlock and the Associated Press announced an agreement Tuesday that gives his production company …
Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:
Whistleblower Claims Google Stole Money From Publishers Using Adsense  —  An anonymous individual claiming to be a former Google employee posted detailed allegations about the search giant on Pastebin today.  The self-stylized whistleblower claimed that Google managers directly ordered employees …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB faces fall in subscribers as competition from BT and Netflix grows  —  Broadcaster predicted to suffer drop in sign-ups as analysts say growth in traditional TV business has stalled  —  BSkyB is facing its first fall in TV subscribers in 15 years as pressure mounts from rivals including BT and Netflix.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Media economist Matthew Gentzkow: fixed costs of producing news remain high on the internet  —  Q&A: Clark Medal winner Matthew Gentzkow says the Internet hasn't changed news as much as we think  —  The Clark Medal is one of the most prestigious awards in all of academia, awarded to the …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Most Pirated TV Shows, Networks Dominated by Broadcasters  —  Piracy tracking firm CEG TEK came out with a rare comprehensive look at just what TV shows and networks are the most active on P2P hub Bittorrent.  While it's hard to extrapolate broad trends from numbers drawn just from last week …
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
The New York Times Gets Into the Viral Video Business
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