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8:30 AM ET, April 25, 2016

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 Top News: 
John Herrman / New York Times:
Vox Media is launching a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, on Monday, 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 …
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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
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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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune Publishing says its board is reviewing Gannett's offer  —  Gannett Offers to Acquire Los Angeles Times Owner in $815M Deal  —  EMAIL ME  —  The owner of ‘USA Today’ offers $12.25 per share in cash for the owner of Tribune Publishing.  —  Newspaper giant Gannett Co. …
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 …
Jim Romenesko:
Bay Area News Group laying off 11 copy desk staffers; Managing Editor cautions “we will be eliminating a layer of valuable editing”  —  Bay Area News Group memo: ‘We will be eliminating a layer of valuable editing’  —  Bay Area News Group is laying off 11 copy desk staffers …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Kelly Ripa to Return to ‘Live,’ Ending a Standoff With ABC  —  Kelly Ripa's standoff against ABC will end next week.  —  Ms. Ripa informed the staff of her morning show, “Live With Kelly and Michael,” on Friday night that she would return Tuesday, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
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, @yashalevine and Engadget
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
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Lawsuit accuses PACER, a federally run system providing access to court documents, of overcharging the public  —  Lawsuit accuses PACER of milking the public for cash in exchange for access  —  Lawsuit says PACER revenue increased to $145M after 2012 price hike to $0.10/page.
 
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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
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
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
Discussion: Cision
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 and VentureBeat
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Despite recent accuracy and speed, doubts about TMZ as a news source persist due to its tabloid nature and admitted practice of paying sources for information
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
The New Republic CEO Guy Vidra resigns one week after Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Snyder's departure was announced
Discussion: @jeremymbarr
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Limited availability on streaming services will diminish Prince's legacy, while Bowie's legacy, with his full catalog online, will grow over time
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished

 
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