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12:30 PM ET, May 20, 2015

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires offering buyouts amid “serious realignment” of staffing  —  Journal offering buyouts amid ‘serious realignment’ in newsroom  —  Buyouts are underway in The Wall Street Journal newsroom, Capital has learned, signaling a shift in resources …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis leaves to study at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Matthew Panzarino to continue as editor  —  TechCrunch's Top Editor Tsotsis Steps Down  —  Alexia Tsotsis will be stepping down from her high-profile job as co-editor of TechCrunch today.
Discussion: Gawker and TechCrunch
Bloomberg Business:
Time Warner Cable Said to Get Takeover Approach From Altice  —  Time Warner Cable Inc., whose merger with Comcast Corp. was called off last month, has received a takeover approach from French billionaire Patrick Drahi's Altice SA, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Associated Press:
Altice to buy US cable operator Suddenlink for $9.1 billion  —  PARIS (AP) — European cable and mobile phone operator Altice has marked its entry into the U.S. market with a deal to buy a controlling stake in Suddenlink Communications for $9.1 billion.  —  Luxembourg-based Altice SA …
Tugboat:
Facebook acquires Tugboat Yards, an audience management platform for small to medium publishers; team to join Facebook product group and work on news, video  —  Joining Facebook  —  Joining Facebook  —  It is with lots of excitement and a dash of melancholy that we announce that Tugboat …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today's Internet  —  “If you think BuzzFeed invented the listicle, you haven't spent enough time with 19th-century newspapers, because they're everywhere.”  —  That's Ryan Cordell, a Northeastern University professor …
Discussion: @davewiner, @dubois and @alanoakley3
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Lucky magazine reduces publication to quarterly, lays off another 10 staff, including president Gillian Gorman Round  —  Lucky Magazine Goes Quarterly  —  Reports of Lucky magazine going all-digital have been a staple of the media rumor mill for several years, with WWD reporting just last month …
Talya Minsberg / New York Times:
How the New York Times is using Snapchat to cover stories like a gala at the Met  —  Snapchat: A New Mobile Challenge for Storytelling  —  Talya Minsberg is a social editor for The Times.  —  In early 2015, The New York Times started quietly experimenting on Snapchat …
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Entertainment Weekly Shakeup: Ellie Duque Replaces Melissa Mattiace as Publisher  —  Entertainment Weekly publisher Melissa Mattiace has stepped down and will be replaced by the publication's west coast advertising director Ellie Duque.  —  In her new role, Duque will be responsible for leading …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mark Thompson on the Times' Facebook ‘experiment’  —  New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson said Wednesday that the Times wouldn't be participating in Facebook's new Instant Articles program if the terms weren't “sufficiently favorable” to the company and its shareholders.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Publishers face threat of punitive libel costs as rival regulator IMPRESS seeks official recognition  —  New press regulator IMPRESS has revealed that it is applying for official recognition under the Parliament-backed Royal Charter process.  —  It is a move which paves the way for all publishers …
Discussion: @markhannamedia and Guardian
 
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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Conde Nast and Italy's RAI Cinema partner and launch “CNLive!”, a web channel in Italy serving primarily as a promotional vehicle for RAI's movies
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
New York Times C.I.O. Marc Frons to leave the company
Discussion: @pmaiorana and @marcfrons
Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:
Tweets get more prominent placement in Google results after Google-Twitter deal; Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March
 
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