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9:40 AM ET, May 8, 2014

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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Conservative think tank Heritage Foundation launches mobile-first news site Daily Signal aimed at younger audiences on June 3  —  Daily Signal: Heritage Foundation News Site Seeks Mainstream Impact  —  Last year the conservative Heritage Foundation had more influence on the direction …
Mary Hui / Poynter:
As China's control grows, Hong Kong media freedoms recede  —  They got him as he stepped out of his car one morning in February.  Wielding a meat-cleaver, Lau Chun-to's assailant hacked at his back and legs, then sped away on a motorbike with an accomplice.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Gillian Wong / Associated Press:
China detains veteran journalist for state secrets  —  BEIJING (AP) — A veteran journalist who was among prominent intellectuals jailed during China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been detained just weeks ahead of the 25th anniversary of the bloodshed on accusations of leaking state secrets.
Discussion: Amnesty International and Guardian
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Amazon, Netflix and tech giants defend net neutrality in letter to FCC  —  In a rare public stand for the internet retailer, Amazon has come out against the Federal Communications Commission's purported plan to bifurcate the internet into faster and slow lanes as part of its new network neutrality rules.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
All3Media sold to Discovery and Liberty Global in deal worth £500m  —  Maker of Skins and Midsomer Murders bought by US media giants after an attempt to sell in 2011 failed  —  Skins and Midsomer Murders maker All3Media has been sold to US media giants Discovery and Liberty Global …
Discussion: Sky News, Televisual and Prolific North
Reuters:
Exclusive: Cars.com investor Gannett mulls bid for entire company: sources  —  (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc (GCI.N), one of the newspaper owners of Cars.com, is exploring a bid for all of the auto sales website and has discussed teaming up with private equity firms in a deal that could reach $3 billion …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Some news sites cracking down on over-the-top comments  —  Attention, reader comment-board trolls: News sites are getting tough on your crude, your rude and your sometimes lewd postings.  —  Faced with the unbounded id of anonymous readers who can't resist posting nasty comments under online articles …
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Marissa Mayer: Stop Asking If Yahoo Is a Tech or Media Company  —  In 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs visited Yahoo's headquarters and urged employees to decide once and for all whether it wanted to be a media company or a technology company.  —  Yahoo's identity crisis, if you want to call it that …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network Q1 revenue rose 6.5% to $3.59B, adds subscribers amid pay TV slump  —  Dish Adds Subs in First Quarter, Earnings Drop  —  UPDATED: The satellite TV giant, led by chairman Charlie Ergen, reported higher quarterly revenue.  —  Dish Network on Thursday reported lower …
Guardian:
ABC's Australia Network faces the axe, but severing contract will incur costs  —  There will be costs incurred unwinding agreements and the Coalition will have to legislate if it wants to offer a new tender  —  The ABC will lose its Australia Network contract next week …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Yahoo News Digest arrives on Android and launches an international edition  —  Four months after bringing its unconventional news app to iOS, Yahoo News Digest arrives on Android today along with international editions that bring a global perspective to currents.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Major brands inadvertently supporting sites with pirated video via automated ads  —  Illicit Websites Use Automated Ad-Buying Systems to Their Advantage  —  It's easy for websites to make a profit selling online advertising.  All they have to do is avoid paying for content.
Discussion: @xpangler and @vranicawsj
ABC:
Fairfax staff vote to end strike over job cuts  —  Employees of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald have voted to go back to work after walking off the job on Wednesday following the announcement of job cuts.  —  Fairfax announced plans to cut 80 jobs from the photography, editorial and Life magazine divisions in Melbourne and Sydney.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
EndlessTV Serves Up Free Web Video to Your Phone, Minus the Ads.  How Long Can That Last?  —  Lots of people are trying to figure out ways to help people “discover” digital video, and lots of them don't work because they don't solve a real problem: Most folks have no trouble “discovering” video on their own.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Channel 4 cuts executives' bonuses as it reports £15m loss  —  Broadcaster's revenues fell during 2013 as its audience share slipped, but it says it expects to return to breakeven this year  —  Channel 4 has reported a loss of £15m in 2013, as the broadcaster's main channel sunk …
Discussion: MediaTel and Prolific North
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers get creative with an à la carte approach to digital media  —  The all-you-can-eat approach to digital media is going away in favor of à la carte.  —  Consider Facebook.  It launched Facebook Messenger and Paper as standalone apps following its acquisition of Instagram.
Federico Mastrogiovanni / VICE News:
Photo Auction Raises Money for Another Murdered Mexican Journalist  —  Applause and hoots of laughter can be heard from the steep stairs that lead up to the small room at the Gimnasio de Arte Cultural Center in Mexico City, where an auction to benefit the family of murdered journalist “Goyo” Jiménez is taking place.
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
Beyond responsive: three mobile website design tricks becoming trends  —  The Los Angeles Times has a new-look website: a responsively designed effort from the same chaps behind sites for The Verge, Hearst and Mashable.  —  But apart from being mobile-friendly in its responsiveness …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
College newspapers are following students online, but will revenue come along, too?  —  Late last month, The Columbia Daily Spectator at Columbia University announced a big change, Peter Sterne reported in Capital New York.  The publication would still update its website daily …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Reinventing the internet: What if AMC took the plunge and unbundled from cable?  —  There's been much speculation about the possibility that HBO could one day directly compete with Netflix by offering consumers a way to subscribe to its HBO Go service without signing up for cable.
Discussion: @dkthomp
 
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Kevin Downey / TVNewsCheck.com:
ConnecTV Shifts Focus To Video Clip Sharing
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
TuneIn relaunches with a big focus on social to become the Twitter of radio
Dorothy Pomerantz / Forbes:
Nielsen Is About To Help Programmers Profit From Your Online TV Viewing
Discussion: @forbestech
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Erin McCarthy / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: The Next Web
Jessica Suss / AJR.org:
Why Food Magazines (the Ones Printed on Actual Paper) Could Endure
NBCSports:
IOC awards Olympic Games broadcast rights to NBCUniversal through to 2032
Peter Suciu / Fortune:
Can Netflix kill cable TV if it's part of it?
Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:
Stephen Colbert won't save us, “Game of Thrones” is not that good: This “golden age” of TV is a big sham
Press Gazette:
Hacking trial summing up: ‘Who polices the journalists? No Mrs Brooks[’
Discussion: Guardian