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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 …
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Politico, @palewire, On Point with Tom Ashbrook and Washington Post
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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Poynter, @niemanlab, @jackmirkinson, @jimwarren55 and @benmullin
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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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 …
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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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Forbes, Adweek, Variety, Birth.Movies.Death, Vanity Fair, /Film, Tubefilter, Engadget and Broadcasting & Cable
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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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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The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, @robbysoave and @aaronblake
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
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.
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 …
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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