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9:20 AM ET, May 1, 2016

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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore Roasts the Press in White House Correspondents' Monologue  —  President Obama was a tough act to follow, but Wilmore reminded some of Stephen Colbert with his audience-unfriendly jokes.  —  Tonight, Larry Wilmore proved exactly why he was the perfect choice …
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Susanne Ault / Variety:
Top four fall TV series for viewers ages 18-24 were on Netflix, finds study from Symphony Advanced Media  —  Data: U.S. Millennials Watch Netflix Series More Than Broadcast TV Hits … “Making a Murderer,” “Master of None,” “F Is for Family” and “Marvel's Jessica Jones” …
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
The Guardian's first virtual reality project lets viewers experience solitary confinement  —  The virtual reality piece called 6x9 launched today through a prototype VR app for iOS and Android  —  Credit: Screenshot from 6x9.  Image courtesy of the Guardian.  —  You are standing in a metallic gray prison cell.
Discussion: BGR and NetNewsCheck Latest
Oliver Roeder / FiveThirtyEight:
Universal Uclick confirms some of the allegations of plagiarism against Timothy Parker, its Universal Crossword puzzle editor, who will take a three-month leave  —  Major Crossword Publisher Confirms Its Puzzles Were Plagiarized  —  Universal Uclick, a syndicator of puzzles to newspapers …
Discussion: Press and and @ninjaeconomics
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify  —  YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts  —  It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …
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Jeffrey Matulef / Eurogamer.net:
YouTubers will soon receive money raised during Content ID disputes  —  New system will set earned revenue aside for whoever's found in the right.  —  YouTubers will soon be able to receive revenue made during Content ID claim disputes.  —  As is, if a YouTuber uploads a video …
John Bohannon / Science:
Analysis of Sci-Hub's server log data shows who's reading the site, which hosts 50M scientific papers, bypassing academic journal paywalls  —  Who's downloading pirated papers?  Everyone  —  Just as spring arrived last month in Iran, Meysam Rahimi sat down at his university computer …
Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch and Slate
Elliot Harmon / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Report: How Arab governments use the law to silence expression online  —  The Crime of Speech  —  New EFF Report Maps Legal Threats to Free Expression in the Arab World  —  Freedom of expression is a universal right, but the specific threats to it vary widely from country to country and region to region.
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Interview with Nick Thompson, editor of NewYorker.com, on writing for the web, quality, paywalls, more  —  The New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson: ‘You have to be good at the beginning’  —  The New Yorker is a true legacy media brand.  The magazine has been published for more than nine decades …
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Zero Hedge authors reply to Bloomberg article unmasking them by aiming to discredit the source, their ex-employee  —  The Full Story Behind Bloomberg's Attempt To “Unmask” Zero Hedge  —  Over the years, Zero Hedge has proven to be a magnet for media attention.
Discussion: ValueWalk
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Benjamin Harvey / Bloomberg:
Two Cumhuriyet columnists sentenced to two years in Turkey for reprinting Charlie Hebdo cartoons featuring Prophet Mohammed  —  Two Turkish Journalists Jailed for Charlie Hebdo Reprints  —  President Erdogan and his family were complainants in the case  —  Prominent columnists sentenced to two years each in jail
Wall Street Journal:
How Comcast made the deal for DreamWorks Animation in two weeks, and what the deal says about media giants' shifting bets on growth  —  Comcast's DreamWorks Deal Reflects Shifting Bets on Media  —  Two weeks ago, Comcast Corp. executives got a tip that DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. …
Discussion: Deadline, Forbes, Deadline, FishbowlNY and Ad Age
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Google Tests Feature That Lets Media Companies, Marketers Publish Directly to Search Results  —  HBO's ‘Silicon Valley’ put a spotlight on the new feature this week by posting ‘news’ stories to Google  —  Google is experimenting with a new feature that allows marketers, media companies …
 
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed's GM for Europe, Kate Burns, is leaving the company just over a year after joining
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Sources: Business Insider faces editorial staff turnover and low newsroom morale, with some blaming relentless management pressure to generate more traffic
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Snapchat strikes a non-exclusive deal with NBC to show Olympics highlights in US via live stories and Discover channel curated by BuzzFeed
Lauren Gambino / Guardian:
Journalist Julia Ioffe, who wrote a profile of Melania Trump for GQ, receives antisemitic abuse online
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

David Cassel / The New Stack:
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more
 
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