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9:55 AM 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: @dylanbyers and @brianstelter
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
 
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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
Discussion: Mashable
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
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Lawsuit accuses PACER, a federally run system providing access to court documents, of overcharging the public
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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: Washington Post
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