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7:50 PM ET, May 21, 2015

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror more than doubles phone-hacking payout fund to £28m  —  Saily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People publisher is still facing claims from more than 100 high-profile figures  —  Trinity Mirror has more than doubled its phone hacking payout fund to £28m …
Discussion: @marksweney
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Digital breakthrough: Times advertisers agree to pay same rate for tablet edition as print  —  Times advertisers are to begin paying the same rate for display advertising in the title's tablet edition as they do in print.  —  The agreement, reached with a number of key ad agencies …
Discussion: @mathewi, @raju and @dannysullivan
Brent Lang / Variety:
New York Times Changes Film Review Policy, Can't Guarantee Coverage  —  The New York Times is changing its film review policies, with the paper telling distributors this week that it can no longer guarantee its critics will weigh in on every film that screens in the city.
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
Univision buys African-American news site The Root  —  Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the US, has bought The Root, an African-American focused news and culture website, as the company looks to build a digital network catering to multicultural millennial consumers.
Discussion: TVNewser and The Root
Brian Crecente / Polygon:
Rockstar parent company sues BBC over upcoming GTA drama  —  Take-Two Interactive today filed a lawsuit against the BBC over the broadcaster's upcoming unauthorized television show about the birth, growth and controversies of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games.  —  The suit was filed in London Thursday morning.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Medium refines strategy, emphasizing network value over Total Time Read, considers tying contributor bonuses to metrics like follows and recommendations  —  What's Going On At Medium?  —  The publisher/publishing platform is rejiggering itself as a social network for readers and writers …
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Founder of Diapers.com, Vinit Bharara, talks about why he launched a media startup called Some Spider to run a network of sites: the Mid, Scary Mommy, and Cafe  —  With the help of NYT execs, Some Spider wants to spin a web of media properties  —  Two of the top digital executives …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Thanks:@mathewi
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Digital radio hits nearly 40% of all listening  —  BBC Radio 4 Extra overtakes 6 Music as digital-only commercial stations such as Absolute 80s and Planet Rock attract record audiences  —  Nearly 40% of radio listening is now on digital with record audiences for digital-only commercial stations including Absolute 80s and Planet Rock.
Discussion: RAIN News
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing completes deal for U-T San Diego, changes name back to San Diego Union-Tribune  —  Tribune Publishing restores San Diego Union-Tribune's old name  —  Tribune Publishing just closed the deal on the newspaper formerly known as U-T San Diego.  One of the first orders of business: restoring the paper's old name.
Discussion: UT San Diego and Business Wire
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership”  —  Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one.  In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors.  On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
More than two dozen publishers agree to drop licensing fees for climate change content ahead of December UN summit  —  Global news organisations agree to share climate change content  —  The Guardian, El País, Le Monde and China Daily are among 25 publishers aiming to raise awareness in the runup to the next UN summit
 
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Time magazine, The Economist, Forbes, and Quartz among pubs creating audio versions of stories to engage mobile users
Discussion: @digiday and Mediashift
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
New Deutsche Welle app, due in June, will have geolocated push alerts for eyewitness media
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Shigeaki Koga / New York Times:
Former Japanese bureaucrat says Japan's treatment of press is more like an authoritarian state than a liberal democracy
Discussion: @aidanpwhite
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Brazilian blogger found decapitated in Minas Gerais state
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Comcast lost friends, its influence, and the bid for Time Warner Cable
Joshua Eaton / PRI:
In Tibet, bloggers post at their own risk
Bloomberg Business:
David Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, owns over 4K hours of vintage comedy footage that may become streaming video
Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
How Al Jazeera America Went from a Home for Idealists to a Sexist Mess