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9:10 AM ET, April 21, 2016

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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Baseball analyst Curt Schilling fired from ESPN one day after posting offensive commentary on Facebook  —  Curt Schilling Is Fired by ESPN  —  Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday …
David Lieberman / Deadline:
Comcast announces Xfinity TV Partner Program, allowing subscribers to watch without its set-top box, starting with Samsung Smart TVs, Roku boxes later this year  —  Comcast Introduces Plan To Let TV Subs Watch Without Its Set-Top Box  —  Comcast is relaxing its grip on the set-top box …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Google claims YouTube ads generate better return on investment than TV in 77% of cases after analysis of 56 campaigns across eight countries  —  Google attacks TV, saying YouTube ads generate a better return on investment most of the time  —  Google is once again directly targeting TV advertising budgets …
Daniel Alegre / Inside Search:
Google will soon add live TV listings to search results, announces advertisers can buy targeted TV ads with DoubleClick Dynamic Ad Insertion  —  Building the future of TV, with you  —  This blog is cross-posted on DoubleClick and Cloud Platform.  —  The television industry is in the midst of a massive change.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
AOL acquires VR company RYOT; 25 staffers to form unit under The Huffington Post, working with TechCrunch, Engadget, clients of AOL's branded content division  —  Verizon's AOL Buys Virtual Reality Video Specialist RYOT  —  The company will form a new unit under AOL's Huffington Post division
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg:
Tribune Publishing using new comment software that lets readers earn or buy points for prominent comment placement  —  News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles  —  A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants—or advertisements—to the top of the comments section.
Discussion: The Wrap
Serri Graslie / Nieman Lab:
NPR social audio experiment on Facebook finds images important, calls-to-action effective, ideal length hard to discern due to lack of data, convoluted workflow  —  Can audio go viral on Facebook?  Here's what happened when NPR ran an experiment for a month  —  Sharing audio on social media is hard to do.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Accelerated Mobile Pages launches on Google News  —  Google on Wednesday announced that it's integrating Google News with Accelerated Mobile Pages, the burgeoning web standard that aims to make the mobile web faster.  —  Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, launched on Google Search earlier …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Content Obligations Balloon to $12.3 Billion on Global Expansion … Netflix keeps pumping more dollars into global licensing and production deals — and the company has increased its bet that continued subscriber growth will keep pace to pay for its long-term content contracts.
Discussion: Deadline
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Wins $30 Million Contract to Sell E-Books to New York City Schools  —  Panel at nation's largest district votes in favor of three-year agreement  —  Amazon.com Inc. won a deal worth about $30 million to provide e-books to New York City, the nation's largest school district.
Discussion: Fortune
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Donald Trump using the libel laws he said he'll obliterate, in his defense against lawsuit filed by Cheri Jacobus  —  The libel laws targeted by Donald Trump are helping him big-time  —  Back when Donald Trump first broached the republic-endangering idea of “opening up” U.S. libel laws …
Discussion: @erikwemple and RedState
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish loses 23K pay-TV subscribers in Q1, beats estimates with $389M in net income on $3.79B in revenue
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy reports Q1 revenue of $238M, down 7.5% year over year, with ad revenue down 9.9% year over year largely due to print decline
Tony Semerad / Salt Lake Tribune:
Paul Huntsman, brother of ex-Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr., is buying The Salt Lake Tribune from Digital First Media
New York Times:
Top editor at Hong Kong's Chinese-language Ming Pao newspaper fired after front-page Panama Papers story, raising press freedom fears
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC News creates controller role for mobile and online as overhaul begins
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Reporters Without Borders:
World Press Freedom Index: Europe has freest media, North Africa/Middle East has least free; Finland ranked 1st, Tunisia and Ukraine rose most, Poland fell most
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch adds staffers covering hardware, security and privacy, and more, plus other staffers in product
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
New York Daily News fires an editor for removing attribution from columns by writer Shaun King, who was accused of plagiarism