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7:05 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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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  —  Huntsman family buying The Salt Lake Tribune, hopes to ensure ‘independent voice for future generations’  —  The Salt Lake Tribune is being purchased by the Huntsman family.
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  —  Timing of Editor's Firing Has Hong Kong Worried About Press Freedom  —  HONG KONG — A top editor at one of Hong Kong's most prestigious newspapers …
 
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg:
Tribune Publishing using new comment software that lets readers earn or buy points for prominent comment placement
Discussion: The Wrap
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
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch adds staffers covering hardware, security and privacy, and more, plus other staffers in product
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Uproxx and BroBible owner Woven Digital buys HitFix, which publishes entertainment news, reviews, and video
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Hollywood Reporter
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
Discussion: AdExchanger
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
New York Daily News fires an editor for removing attribution from columns by writer Shaun King, who was accused of plagiarism