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2:00 PM 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 Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
AOL acquires VR company Ryot, 25 staffers to form new unit under The Huffington Post, work 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
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 …
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  —  2016 World Press Freedom Index ­- leaders paranoid about journalists  —  Organisation  —  RSF_en
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC News creates controller role for mobile and online as overhaul begins  —  James Harding reveals plans to organise news, mobile and online under new controller as part of reshaping of division in face of around £80m cuts by 2022  —  BBC News is creating a controller of mobile …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Bloomberg launches Middle East edition of website and will open Dubai studio to begin broadcasting in May  —  Bloomberg to launch Middle East edition  —  Move - which will include opening a studio in Dubai - is part of expansion that has included sites for Europe and Asia in past year
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: @annehelen and FishbowlDC
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.
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.
 
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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
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D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Tribune Publishing buys Splash magazine from the Sun-Times
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Yahoo reports Q1 revenue of $1.087B, slightly higher than expectations but still down 12% YoY
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans
 
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