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5:10 PM ET, April 19, 2016

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Newsletter theSkimm introduces new subscription service, Skimm Ahead, an iPhone app that costs $2.99 a month, adds event reminders to your calendar  —  Email Newsletter Startup theSkimm Rolls Out Paid Subscription Product  —  New iPhone app will automatically place big news and cultural events on people's digital calendars
New York Times:
How media and entertainment companies are expanding into VR, through investment in VR startups and VR-based news projects  —  Virtual Reality Lures Media Companies to a New Frontier  —  Media and entertainment companies want to help shape the next entertainment platform: virtual reality.
Discussion: The Wrap and The Verge
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed  —  HBO gets into VR with investment in OTOY  —  HBO is getting into virtual reality, too.  Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling …
Discussion: OTOY, Home Media Magazine and Engadget
Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
New York Observer's food critic Joshua David Stein resigns, following its endorsement of Trump  —  When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign  —  I was the restaurant critic.  I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht.
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
NPR, This American Life, and HBO among Peabody Award winners  —  ‘Real Sports,’ ‘This American Life’ Among Peabody Awards Winners … “This American Life's” exploration of desegregation and HBO's “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel's” investigation of the ivory trade are among the winners …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work  —  Donald Trump's campaign paid the site's national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn  —  Yahoo bidders are few and far between, but include Verizon, TPG and a gang of exes  —  As Yahoo prepares to release what is widely expected …
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix promises 100 hours of HDR programming by August, more by 2017  —  Netflix just announced plans to introduce more high dynamic range (HDR)-quality videos to its library this year.  —  Though we already knew Netflix had big plans on the HDR front and that it had recently upgraded the first season of …
David Pierce / Wired:
Google launches podcast section in Google Play Music for US users on Android and the web  —  Google Play Will Now Soundtrack Your Life With Podcasts  —  A decade after their inception, podcasts are hitting the mainstream.  You can argue about why (everyone does), but the numbers don't lie.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The founder of a small Florida newspaper died days before its first Pulitzer win  —  There were no big celebrations today in the Charlotte Sun's newsroom, no champagne, no live-tweeting.  —  Today marked the first Pulitzer win for the Florida newspaper and for Editor John Hackworth.
 
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Marc Burrows / Guardian:
Perspective on comments from someone who spent five years moderating Guardian comments, and calls it the best, not the worst, job in the world
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Cosby's lawyers push New York Magazine to turn over transcripts, unpublished material from July 2015 cover story featuring his alleged victims
Hasit Shah / Nieman Lab:
A look at India's ScoopWhoop, MissMalini, and SWEN, local startups aiming to outcompete Western news companies
Discussion: @dhume
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Elisabeth Murdoch's Vertical Networks to launch Brother, a made-for-Snapchat mobile video media brand aimed at millennial men, within weeks
Discussion: @bobbierman
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer opens up to partners for the first time, collaborates on online Shakespeare festival with other organizations including the British Film Institute
Discussion: Advanced Television and Engadget
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Jay Z, Tidal & Kanye West sued for misstatements about ‘The Life of Pablo’ exclusivity
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Facebook pulls down mega-popular celeb site The Shade Room's page for alleged copyright violations
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Verizon and Hearst to acquire Complex Media in 50/50 split, for its predominantly younger, male audience; WSJ reports the deal values Complex at $250M-$300M
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts live 360 video, releases API for hardware makers to integrate into devices, also launches spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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