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1:30 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: @brianstelter and @dylanbyers
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  —  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
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
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.
Discussion: Windows Central, Ubergizmo and hypebot
Nicola Clark / New York Times:
Politico Europe has 1-1.5M unique visitors a month, 300K readers of weekly print newspaper, Brussels Playbook delivered to 50K inboxes a day  —  Politico Pierces the ‘Brussels Bubble’ With U.S.-Style Coverage  —  BRUSSELS — The offices of Politico Europe, the Brussels outpost …
Discussion: @lpolgreen, @kenvogel and @politicoryan
BBC:
Senior editor at Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, Roopbaan, hacked to death in the capital, 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.
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: @yashalevine and @yanatweets
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 …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC staff say decision to relocate majority of BBC Chinese Service's roles to Hong Kong from the UK risks their safety and corporation's editorial integrity  —  BBC World Service staff say Hong Kong move risks editorial freedom  —  Plans to shift bulk of service from UK 'underestimates level …
Discussion: @limlouisa and @beijingpalmer
 
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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