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5:15 PM 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: The Week, @dylanbyers and @brianstelter
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online - users report accounts hacked, emails changed  —  A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials - including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details - has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach.
John Herrman / New York Times:
Vox Media launches gadget blog Circuit Breaker as a section of The Verge, but with Facebook as its primary distribution platform  —  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 …
Robin Wilson / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Melissa Click, Missouri professor fired over confrontation with student reporter, talks about the events of that day, blames her firing on racial politics  —  Being Melissa Click  —  Last fall, as Melissa Click yelled and pointed her way into infamy, she quickly became a caricature …
John Herrman / New York Times:
Q&A with Harvard economist Andrei Hagiu on distributed readership, platforms, and writer-reader interaction  —  Online Media Is Tested When Social Platforms Come to Town  —  Online media companies are, once again, bracing for change.  Now, the prospect facing them is audiences …
Discussion: @sonyaellenmann and @jwherrman
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Saturday Night Live to reduce ads by 30%, introduces six slots a year for branded content  —  ‘Saturday Night Live’ Will Cut Ads by 30% Next Season  —  Also Offers Marketers Limited Branded Content Pods  —  Marketing Fact Pack  —  NBC's “Saturday Night Live” is paring down its commercial load …
Karl Bode / Techdirt:
Comcast preventing Xfinity customers from using Starz's $9/ month standalone streaming app, and can only offer flimsy reasons why  —  Comcast Preventing Customers From Accessing Starz Streaming App, Can Only Offer Flimsy Reasons Why  —  Last year, we noted that Comcast was refusing …
Discussion: The Verge
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Charter-Time Warner Cable merger and Bright House Networks acquisition get regulatory OK in deals valued at $88B, with terms to protect streaming competition  —  FCC chairman recommends approval of Charter's takeover of Time Warner Cable  —  Charter Communications is closer to realizing …
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a must-read amongst California's Hollywood crowd  —  The Juicy New Read of L.A.'s Intellectuals  —  The ‘Los Angeles Review of Books’ has everyone from Matthew Weiner to Cameron Diaz buzzing about the “hub for culture.”
Discussion: The Awl and @annehelen
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
Ahead of launching its subscription service on Tuesday, Fullscreen announces online series, “The Deleted”, directed by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis  —  ‘American Psycho’ Author Bret Easton Ellis Makes Directorial Debut for Online Series ‘The Deleted’
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
BBC:
Xulhaz Mannan, the senior editor at Roopbaan, Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, and colleague Tanay Mojumdar, hacked to death in 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.
 
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