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10:05 AM ET, April 30, 2015

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 Top News: 
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Publishers partnering with Google and Facebook should beware of tech companies' control over content  —  Google and Facebook are our frenemy.  Beware.  —  Google, Facebook, Twitter and any other social platform you care to name would at one time have gone to the corporate stake to defend …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
In earthquake-ravaged Nepal, the BBC is using messaging app Viber to share information and safety tips  —  In the aftermath of last week's earthquake that devastated Nepal, BBC News is today launching an account on the messaging app Viber to publish news, information, and tips for staying safe as the country continues to recover.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and @ptaillandier
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Q1: $14M net loss, 47K new digital subscribers, total revenue down 1.6% to $384M  —  New York Times Co. Reports Loss as Print Ads Decline  —  The New York Times Company posted a $14 million net loss for the first quarter of 2015 as lucrative print advertising suffered a sharp drop-off.
Jenny Surane / Quartz:
I am editor-in-chief of my college newspaper and the job I trained for no longer exists  —  At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen to Measure Roku Connected-TV Video Ads  —  Nielsen and Roku are working together to measure video advertising delivered via Roku's 10 million players and smart-TV devices — a development the parties tout as the first connected-TV platform to offer audience guarantees that exist in traditional television.
Discussion: PR Newswire
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Knight Foundation funds 20 new media and technology projects through its Prototype Fund  —  The Knight Foundation is awarding more than $700,000 to a new round of technology projects, with a focus on storytelling, data, and community building.  Twenty projects will each receive $35,000 as part …
New York Times:
Twitter shares fall an additional 9% on disappointment with weak sales of direct response ads  —  Twitter Troubles Lie in Marketers' Reluctance to Buy New Kind of Ad  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As a company, Twitter is an adolescent — gangly, starry-eyed, growing like a weed and unpredictable.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
HBO and Showtime sue two streaming sites for piracy in advance of Saturday boxing match, ask for injunction and for ISPs to block sites during match  —  Showtime and HBO Sue Over ‘Pre-Piracy’  —  HBO and Showtime are no stranger to online piracy.  Their TV-shows are pirated millions of times each month.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Clifford Levy promoted to New York Times masthead  —  The New York Times has promoted Clifford Levy to a “masthead role” as assistant editor, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in a Wednesday afternoon memo provided to Capital.  —  In this role, Levy, an associate masthead editor …
Variety:
Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins Bets on Originals to Beat Netflix, Amazon  —  From the outside, the Santa Monica headquarters Hulu calls home might look like just another office building.  But the second floor that most of its 850 employees occupy is a world unto itself.
Discussion: UPROXX and Splitsider
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vevo Names Erik Huggers CEO  —  Erik Huggers, who most recently led Intel's ill-fated attempt to launch an Internet TV service, has joined online music-video distributor Vevo as president and CEO.  —  Huggers' appointment is effective immediately.  The 20-year digital media vet takes …
Jon Erlichman / The Wrap:
Lionsgate Considered Starz Acquisition Before Stock Swap With John Malone  —  During a February earnings call and at a Deutsche Bank media conference in March, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht described the pay-TV service and Lionsgate Entertainment as “kissing cousins.”
 
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Paul Schemm / Associated Press:
Iraqi official blames media for Islamic State war failures
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC offers largest telecom providers $1.7B in subsidies to expand rural broadband
Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
Q&A with New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet on publishing CIA intelligence, accountability, and more
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Time Warner execs: TV has to adapt to an on-demand world
Discussion: The Wrap and AdAge
 Earlier Picks: 
Melissa Bailey / Nieman Lab:
Collaborating across borders: European journalists band together to track the migrant crisis
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
More than 800K NPR clips now available for embedding on any website
Discussion: NPR.org
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Instagram's @music account, its first official content vertical, will showcase popular and emerging artists
Dylan Byers / Politico:
91% of Americans over 12 listen to AM/FM radio, more than half to online radio; podcast listeners have doubled since 2008
Discussion: PRNewser and Journalism.org
Alexander Klöpping / Medium:
Blendle CEO Alexander Klöpping: pay-per-article works for journalism but not news, and other lessons from the startup's first year in business
Discussion: PublishingLab, Poynter and @dryfe, Thanks:@alexandernl