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7:20 AM ET, April 28, 2016

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board, raising questions about Huffington Post editorial boundaries despite her recusing herself from coverage of Uber  —  Arianna Huffington is an Uber board member: Huh?  —  Editors in chief of news organizations are well advised to steer clear of corporate entanglements.
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
With Arianna Huffington on the Uber board, the Huffington Post must manage both actual and perceived conflicts of interest  —  Ask the ethicist: Should Arianna Huffington sit on Uber's board?  —  Arianna Huffington was announced as the newest member of Uber's board of directors today …
Discussion: @kellymcb and @sarahcuda
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q1: beats expectations with revenue up 5.3% to $18.79B, profit up to $2.13B, adds 53K video customers  —  Comcast Profit Tops Estimates  —  Cable giant continues to add video customers despite weak pay-TV market  —  Comcast Corp. reported better-than-expected financial results …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3B+, would likely merge DreamWorks with Universal Pictures
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Spotify buys CrowdAlbum, which aggregates photos and video from live events and was founded by Tracy Chan, a former head of YouTube analytics  —  Spotify Acquires CrowdAlbum, An Aggregator of Social Data From Live Events  —  EMAIL ME  —  Photos and videos shared via social media …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Profile of media startup Odyssey, which has 10K+ unpaid young writers posting one piece a week, recently raised $25M, and claims 30M uniques a month  —  A startup that just raised $25 million is like a college newspaper on steroids — and it's racking up 30 million uniques a month
Minnie Chan / South China Morning Post:
Andrei Chang, founder of Kanwa Asian Defense magazine, is leaving Hong Kong for Tokyo due to fears for his safety as a journalist after booksellers disappeared  —  Defence magazine publisher Andrei Chang quits Hong Kong over concerns for safety  —  Mainland born Canadian founder …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Source: Facebook is offering some content creators around $250K for 20 live video posts per month over a three-month period  —  As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars  —  The social platforms are all competing for quality video, but only a select few can deliver it.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gannett CEO Robert Dickey says Tribune Publishing papers would be regional anchors, cost cuts likely to come from printing and distribution if sale goes through  —  Here's what Gannett would do with Tribune's major newspapers  —  Michael Ferro, the primary shareholder of Tribune Publishing …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Vox Media names ex-Rosetta Stone CEO Stephen Swad as CFO; ex-Yahoo President Susan Decker joins board  —  Vox Media Names First CFO, Adds Former Yahoo President to Board  —  Appointments put media veterans in management, oversight roles  —  No immediate plans for IPO, CEO Jim Bankoff says in interview
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter's user growth problems become ad revenue issue as firm struggles to compete with new products like Snapchat, lacks scale to take on Facebook, Google  —  Twitter is going to have a hard time fixing its ad problem  —  For the last couple of years, two things about the Twitter narrative …
Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
Sources: Amazon Studios is in early-stage talks with VR companies about making original VR content  —  Amazon in Talks to Create Virtual Reality Content (Exclusive)  —  Amazon is in talks with virtual-reality companies about developing original virtual-reality content, multiple people familiar with the matter told TheWrap.
 
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts non-skippable, 6-second Bumper ad unit, to complement existing ad formats
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A new podcast from Mic and The Economist aims for a global perspective on the 2016 election
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
The New Republic names Eric Bates editor and owner Win McCormack editor in chief
Mario Le Content:
Think pieces about saving media are simply desperate, gut-wrenching cries for help as newspapers close, websites announce layoffs, and money becomes more scarce
Discussion: @mediamook
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Esquire removes satirical article by “Prof. Jeff Jarvis” after request from real Jeff Jarvis
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple Music now has 13 million paying subscribers, up from 11 million in February
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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