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8:30 PM ET, April 22, 2016

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Despite recent accuracy and speed, doubts about TMZ as a news source persist due to its tabloid nature and admitted practice of paying sources for information  —  TMZ was first — again.  Will its word alone ever be good enough for traditional media?  —  To almost no one's surprise …
Elmo Keep / Fusion:
Prince ferociously protected his copyrights, issuing takedown notices and refusing to stream his music through any service except Tidal  —  Why Prince didn't want his music on the internet  —  Prince was an artist of such singular vision, possessed by talents so otherworldly …
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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Limited availability on streaming services will diminish Prince's legacy, while Bowie's legacy, with his full catalog online, will grow over time  —  What Prince could have learned from Bowie about the value of music streaming  —  Musically speaking, there wasn't a huge amount …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America's executive vice president of finance, Anand Gupta, claims racial discrimination in lawsuit, details lavish spending at network  —  Former Al Jazeera Executive Files Bias Suit  —  Al Jazeera America may have shut down last week but that has not protected the network from further unwelcome news.
Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser and Jezebel
New York Times:
Chinese regulator shut down iBooks Store and iTunes Movies in China last week say sources; Apple working on making them available again soon  —  Apple No Longer Immune to China's Scrutiny of U.S. Tech Firms  —  For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Jay Wallace becomes EVP news and editorial at Fox News as Michael Clemente moves to longform unit: both will report directly to CEO Ailes  —  Fox News Launches Longform Unit With Michael Clemente; Jay Wallace Upped to News Head  —  EMAIL ME  —  The new division shifts former news topper Clemente to specials.
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Swiss £4 per month regional news curation app Zwölf has 35K subscribers, 1,500 daily users six months after launch  —  Is curation the way forward?  A Swiss media group's take on getting people to pay for regional news  —  Swiss media company Tamedia is hand-picking 12 stories a day …
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey: Editors see media losing ground as legal advocate for 1st Amendment  —  Editors around the country are losing confidence in the news industry's ability to fulfill its role as a First Amendment champion, and they believe that shrinking resources are to blame, according to a report released …
Facebook:
Facebook's News Feed starts prioritizing time spent on content, and reduces how often it shows posts in a row from the same source  —  News Feed FYI: More Articles You Want to Spend Time Viewing  —  As we work to improve News Feed, we make updates to help make sure you see the most relevant stories at the top.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Medium raises $50M Series C led by Spark Capital, adds Ben Horowitz, Judy Estrin to board; source puts value at $600M, up from $400M in Sept when it raised $57M  —  Ev Williams's Medium raised $57 million in September — now it's raised another $50 million  —  You may have heard there's …
 
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC pledges women will fill half of on-air roles by 2020
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
The New Republic's CEO Guy Vidra resigns one week after Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Snyder's departure was announced
Discussion: @jeremymbarr
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
How storytelling pioneers are experimenting with GoPros, 3-D printers, and homemade camera rigs to invent a new medium, cinematic VR
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Charles Ornstein / New York Times:
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to pay $2.2M to settle violations of HIPAA rules after allowing ABC TV crew to tape dying patient for reality show NY Med
John Koblin / New York Times:
ABC's change to boost morning TV lineup creates rancor after executives failed to notify Kelly Ripa of Michael Strahan's move to Good Morning America
Emma Garman / The Awl:
The history of UK media injunctions, and how celebrities pay to keep out of the papers
James Warren / Poynter:
SEC filing: ousted Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin to receive $2M in addition to $3.2M 2015 compensation
Discussion: @thebenbergman and @johnrussell99
 

 
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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring the hydraulic Atlas, with a pilot starting in 2025

The Verge:
Third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for €1.50 a year with two apps including game emulator Delta, which is also live on Apple's App Store

Clint Watts / Microsoft On the Issues:
MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start this year compared to 2016 and 2020
 
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