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10:35 AM ET, April 25, 2016

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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Gannett Co. offers to buy Tribune Publishing, owner of LA Times, for $815M, at $12.25 a share, will assume $390M of Tribune's outstanding debt  —  Gannett offers $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing  —  Gannett Co., which owns USA TODAY and more than 100 other media properties across the country …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Gannett says Tribune Publishing rejected its offer but Tribune says it's reviewing offer  —  Gannett offers $815 million to buy Los Angeles Times and Tribune  —  Gannett wants to buy fellow newspaper owner Tribune Publishing.  —  On Monday, Gannett went public with a bid, saying its initially private entreaties had been rebuffed.
Discussion: @dylanbyers and @brianstelter
John Herrman / New York Times:
Vox Media launches a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, primarily as a Facebook page, with a section on The Verge's website as well  —  Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New  —  Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its explainer mission to video  —  Last fall, Vox.com published a video on Syria's civil war to its YouTube channel, where it's ended up with nearly 2.5 million views.  Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein also posted it to his Facebook page …
Discussion: @binarybits and @voxmediainc
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: New York Times talking with unions about staff cuts of “a couple of hundred people” in late 2016, may radically downsize or close Paris office  —  New York Times plans to cut hundreds of jobs later this year  —  MORE FROM:  —  The New York Times Co. is preparing …
Reuters:
Dutch journalist Ebru Umar detained, then released but forbidden to leave Turkey after tweets and column in Metro newspaper critical of Erdogan  —  Dutch journalist who criticized Erdogan held in Turkey: official  —  A prominent Dutch journalist has been detained by Turkish police while on holiday …
BBC:
Senior editor at Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, Roopbaan, hacked to death in the capital, Dhaka  —  Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death  —  A senior editor on Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka, police say.
Nicola Clark / New York Times:
Politico Europe has 1-1.5M unique visitors a month, 300K readers of weekly print newspaper, Brussels Playbook delivered to 50K inboxes a day  —  Politico Pierces the ‘Brussels Bubble’ With U.S.-Style Coverage  —  BRUSSELS — The offices of Politico Europe, the Brussels outpost …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC staff say decision to relocate majority of BBC Chinese Service's roles to Hong Kong from the UK risks their safety and corporation's editorial integrity  —  BBC World Service staff say Hong Kong move risks editorial freedom  —  Plans to shift bulk of service from UK 'underestimates level …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Toosheh lets Iranians use their ubiquitous satellite TV dishes to download videos, cirumventing the nation's slow, expensive, censored internet  —  The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet  —  Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working …
Discussion: @yanatweets and @yashalevine
Andrew Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ugandan social media shutdowns threaten press as journalists rely on it for news distribution and gathering  —  Is social media the newest front in Uganda's war with the press?  —  KAMPALA, UGANDA—The night before Uganda's February 18 presidential vote, David Tumusiime went to bed …
Discussion: @fil and @onadaexpansiva
 
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Pranav Dixit / Factor Daily:
Ex-Penguin Random House India head Chiki Sarkar launches Juggernaut mobile reading app with recommendation engine, social features, pay per title or membership
Discussion: Mashable
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Journalist's response after Pentagon calls him out for “monopolizing” system with FOIA requests
Discussion: @joejglenton
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Business Insider paid research arm BI Intelligence has 5K+ subscribers, 30 staffers, 200% revenue increase YoY and eyes opportunities abroad
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Lawsuit accuses PACER, a federally run system providing access to court documents, of overcharging the public
Mark Toner / INMA:
Washington Post begins selling its content management system Arc to small publishers, sees a $100M market including media and non-media companies
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Jim Romenesko:
Bay Area News Group laying off 11 copy desk staffers; Managing Editor cautions “we will be eliminating a layer of valuable editing”
John Koblin / New York Times:
Kelly Ripa to Return to ‘Live,’ Ending a Standoff With ABC
Christian / The Official BitTorrent Blog:
BitTorrent appoints new co-CEOs, plans to launch mobile streaming video service this spring, add ad-supported streaming to its Bundle platform this summer
Discussion: Tech Times