Mediagazer: Snapchat debuts 10-second video ads for Discover publishers that cost two cents per view (Michelle Castillo/Adweek)

10:50 AM ET, May 8, 2015

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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing to buy U-T San Diego for $85 million — Tribune Publishing has entered into an agreement to buy San Diego's flagship newspaper for $85 million. The deal, confirmed Thursday evening, includes $73 million in cash and $12 million in Tribune Publishing common stock …

Discussion: UT San Diego, Nieman Lab, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, CNNMoney, UT San Diego, Poynter, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, Politico, FishbowlNY, XETV - Local News, Times of San Diego, KPBS Public Media, U-T San Diego and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

Snapchat debuts 10-second video ads for Discover publishers that cost two cents per view — Snapchat Debuts Video Ads for 2 Cents a View — Snapchat wants companies to know its not just for millennials: Advertisers can find a home there as well. At the Daily Mail/Elite Daily Digital …

Discussion: AdAge, The Drum and mUmBRELLA

Christian Sandvig / Social Media Collective:

Facebook's news polarization study is flawed because it only counted users self-reporting their ideological affiliation — The Facebook “It's Not Our Fault” Study — Today in Science, members of the Facebook data science team released a provocative study about adult Facebook users in the US …

Discussion: Crooked Timber, Cyborgology, Medium, @mathewi, Engadget, @snurb_dot_info, @digiphile, @jayrosen_nyu, Joho the Blog and USA Today

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Facebook study: our News Feed algorithm makes you just 5-8% less likely to see news from the opposing political side — Facebook says its algorithms aren't responsible for your online echo chamber — In 2011, progressive activist and author Eli Pariser told an unsettling story …

Discussion: New York Times, Medium, Mashable, Bloomberg Business, Science, @verge, Pacific Standard, CBS News, NBC News, Guardian, Rachel Metz, BBC, Co.Exist, Gizmodo, TIME and Engadget

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Bill Simmons and ESPN Are Parting Ways — Bill Simmons, who built a personal empire at ESPN and is one of America's most influential sports personalities, will leave the media giant when his contract expires in the fall. He and the company were unable to reach an extension after months of talks.

Discussion: @richsandomir, Washington Post, Deadspin, Business Insider, Poynter, @pkafka and John Clay's Sidelines

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

London Live to backtrack on promise to increase original programming — Evgeny Lebedev's struggling TV service to drop commitment to do more original, local programming after getting Ofcom go-ahead for cutbacks — Evgeny Lebedev's London Live has secured Ofcom's permission to backtrack …

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

News Corp hacking scandal costs rise to $512m — The cost to News Corp of dealing with the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World has risen to $512m (£332m). — The figure is included in the latest quarterly results for the US-based owner of News UK, which publishes The Sun, Times and Sunday Times.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Bright House Networks plans to drop merger with Charter-sources — Bright House Networks, the sixth largest U.S. cable operator, is preparing to abandon a $10.4 billion deal to be acquired by larger peer Charter Communications Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Inside the upcoming life sciences newsroom from Boston Globe Media, headed by ex-editor of Politico, Rick Berke, and based in Boston and DC — Inside the upcoming life sciences newsroom from Boston Globe Media — Shortly after Rick Berke resigned from his post as executive editor of Politico …

Discussion: Media Nation

Peter Jukes / Politico:

The UK elections may not be remembered as much for the outcome as the way the media covered it — LONDON — Fasten your seatbelt: it's going to be a bumpy ride. With the two major parties, Conservative and Labour, neck and neck in the polls; and two new insurrectionary forces …

Discussion: Guardian, One Man & His Blog, Washington Post, Guardian, @kirancmoodley, @marklewislawyer, @geoffrey_m_b and @bassmadman

David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How British media bring UK general election news across the pond

Discussion: Variety, Forbes, Pocket-lint, Globe and Mail, UK - The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Guardian, bbc.co.uk, @daviduberti, Financial Times and NPR

James Warren / Poynter:

Lack of fact-checking by press means ISIS messages go unchallenged, US Senate panel told — Without fact checking, ISIS' messages go unchallenged — Media worldwide have at times exaggerated the strength of ISIS terrorists due to a combination of their use of social media and an inability …

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Chelsea Manning writes bill to protect journalism and curb Espionage Act — The US soldier imprisoned for leaking state secrets in 2010 seeks to reform laws used to prosecute journalists and whistleblowers in the name of national security — Chelsea Manning, the US soldier serving …

Discussion: @jesselynradack, @runasand and Chelsea Manning Support …