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7:15 AM ET, April 20, 2016

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
New York Daily News fires an editor for removing attribution from columns by writer Shaun King, who was accused of plagiarism  —  Daily News fires editor after Shaun King accused of plagiarism  —  The New York Daily News has fired one of its editors for removing attribution from columns …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
BuzzFeed's fun, shallow content like exploding watermelon videos isn't destroying journalism, just mirroring the light stories that newspapers have always used  —  Why BuzzFeed's Exploding Watermelon Won't Destroy Journalism  —  Just look at the New York Times' long history of cat coverage.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Yahoo reports Q1 revenue of $1.087B, slightly higher than expectations but still down 12% YoY  —  Yahoo earnings: 8 cents per share, vs expected EPS of 7 cents  —  Yahoo announced earnings and revenue Tuesday that slightly topped analyst estimates.  —  The company said it saw adjusted …
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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
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 …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
French daily newspaper Le Figaro extends its ad blocker ban, after 20% of users switch them off after one week trial; 20% of monthly traffic had been affected  —  How Le Figaro got 20 percent of its ad blocking readers to whitelist the site  —  French daily newspaper Le Figaro will extend …
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 …
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New York Times:
How media and entertainment companies are expanding into VR, through investment in VR startups and VR-based news projects
Discussion: The Verge, Vanity Fair and The Wrap
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch adds staffers covering hardware, security and privacy, and more, plus other staffers in product  —  Please welcome Brian Heater, Kate Conger and more to TechCrunch  —  We aren't done yet.  We've got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they're good ones.
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Tribune Publishing buys Splash magazine from the Sun-Times  —  The former editor of Splash, Susanna Homan, had already resigned and moved to Tribune to be editor/publisher of the Tribune-owned Chicago magazine  —  Tribune Publishing has a newish boss, Michael Ferro, who used to be the big wig at the Sun-Times.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Uproxx and BroBible owner Woven Digital buys HitFix, which publishes entertainment news, reviews, and video  —  Woven Digital Acquires HitFix (Exclusive) … Youth-skewing media company Woven Digital has bought HitFix, a fan-focused publisher of entertainment news, reviews and video.
Discussion: @christhilk, @hitfix and @ceilidhann
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
More than 20 months after Ferguson, Ryan Reilly and Wesley Lowery are still facing charges in St. Louis County  —  The 2014 arrests of journalists Ryan Reilly and Wesley Lowery for, well, doing journalism at a McDonald's in Ferguson, Missouri, were misguided.
Discussion: @mariachappellen and @wesleylowery
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 …
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 …
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  —  Welcome to ‘the worst job in the world’ - my life as a Guardian moderator  —  Comments on the website can exceed 70,000 a day.
 
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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
Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
New York Observer's food critic Joshua David Stein resigns, following its endorsement of Trump
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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