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7:40 PM ET, May 3, 2015

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter  —  Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him  —  Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao.  There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood.  —  The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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Christina Warren / Mashable:
How Periscope users experienced the readily-available pirate streams of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight last night  —  I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future  —  Like millions of others across the world, I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a living room surrounded by other boxing fans.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Service issues hit Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, and Charter ahead of big boxing match  —  Service Outages Reported Ahead of Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight  —  Just ahead of one of the biggest fights in boxing history, dozens are taking to Twitter to complain of cable outages and other problems …
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook to host content with ‘Instant Articles’ initiative starting later this month, will offer publishers 100% of revenue if they sell their own ads  —  Facebook Offers to Let Publishers Keep Revenue From Certain Ads  —  Publishers currently post links to content but mobile device speed frustrating users
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
PEN Has Every Right to Honor Charlie Hebdo  —  The annual PEN Literary Gala, in which writers, the male half badly dressed in once-a-year tuxedos, assemble under the big whale at the American Museum of Natural History to mutter about their advances and applaud their imprisoned confreres, has always had its comic aspects.
Discussion: New York Times
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Digital publishers like AOL and Lin Digital try to grab TV morning show ad dollars with morning shows of their own  —  Digital players want a slice of the morning show pie  —  At this year's “Newfront” presentations, traditional and digital publishers have pushed video hard …
Discussion: @aubernalevy and @alexweprin
Jessica Elgot / Guardian:
Questions raised after celebrated neurosurgeon and CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta is filmed performing surgery on those injured by earthquake  —  CNN physician-journalist poses ethical dilemma after treating Nepal victims  —  Questions raised after celebrated neurosurgeon and CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta …
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Quartz's Kevin Delaney: the 800-word article and many journalism practices are antiquated  —  Quartz's Kevin Delaney: Time to kill the 800-word article  —  Quartz launched 2-and-a-half years ago as an upstart digital-first, global business news brand.  The proposition: Quartz …
Renee Ghert-Zand / The Times of Israel:
China wields influence in Middle East through Arabic-language TV and radio broadcasts  —  China wields influence in Middle East through Arabic-language TV and radio broadcasts  —  There's nothing unusual about teenagers singing songs from Disney's “Frozen” or television quiz show contestants …
Freedom Communications, Inc.:
Freedom News Group reintroduces Spanish-language La Prensa and Excélsior newspapers  —  Freedom News Group reintroduces Spanish-language La Prensa and Excélsior newspapers into Inland Empire and Orange County communities  —  To actively engage and better serve the 3.3 million Latinos …
James Warren / Poynter:
After the earthquake in Nepal, one editor moved the newsroom to his living room  —  When Superstorm Sandy flooding sideswiped the New York Daily News (where I previously worked) in October 2012, editors relocated to a Jewish weekly and a Manhattan law firm before the newsroom was reestablished in the paper's New Jersey printing plant.
 
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Tidal's streaming exclusives will be undermined by limitations of exclusivity
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
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Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal:
China Closes 21st Century Business Herald's Website
Discussion: Reuters and Associated Press
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
After pricing dispute led Verizon to drop some packets of Cogent's customers, firms agree to long-term interconnection agreement benefiting FiOS, DSL customers
Discussion: Consumerist
James Warren / Poynter:
Obama honors three international journalists ahead of World Press Freedom Day, repeats call for release of Washington Post's Jason Rezaian
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Jordan Heck / Sporting News:
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Shadi Rahimi / Poynter:
How AJ+ reported from Baltimore using only mobile phones
Discussion: @macloo