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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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James Warren / Poynter:
Tribune's management surprised by Gannett bid, had other plans for the company, internal memo reveals; bid could lead to boardroom or courtroom battle — A surprised Tribune hints at a potential battle over Gannett bid — Tribune Publishing was clearly sideswiped.
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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.
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New York Times, The Week, @dylanbyers and @brianstelter
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 …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its explainer mission to video
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@binarybits and @voxmediainc
New York Times:
Sources: Charter-TWC merger to get FCC and DOJ approval today, with terms designed to protect video streaming competition — Charter Communications Deal for Time Warner Cable Said to Be Approved — WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are expected to announce on Monday that they have approved …
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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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Fast Company, AppAdvice.com Latest, Windows Central, Ubergizmo and hypebot
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 …
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@sonyaellenmann and @jwherrman
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 …
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Hit & Run, @robbysoave and @aaronblake
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 …
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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.”
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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’
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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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