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9:45 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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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Wall Street reaction to Gannett's Tribune bid indicates deal is likely to succeed; spokesman says Gannett would keep Tribune intact  —  Why Gannett is likely to win its takeover bid for Tribune Publishing  —  Despite initial resistance from Tribune Publishing's management …
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 …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Kelly Ripa gets a personal apology from ABC execs  —  Top executives at Disney and ABC have personally apologized to Kelly Ripa for last week's bungled announcement about the departure of her co-host Michael Strahan.  —  The bosses apologized to Strahan too.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and TVLine
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 …
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.
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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
Dave McNary / Variety:
Lionsgate to distribute more than 100 films on Steam, including The Hunger Games  —  Lionsgate Launches Distribution Through Steam, Includes ‘Hunger Games’ … Valve Corp. and Lionsgate have formed a partnership under which Lionsgate will license more than 100 films to Valve's Steam digital …
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
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: Engadget and The Verge
 
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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
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Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a must-read amongst California's Hollywood crowd
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BBC:
Xulhaz Mannan, the senior editor at Roopbaan, Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, and colleague Tanay Mojumdar, hacked to death in Dhaka
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