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12:10 PM ET, May 4, 2016

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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Q&A with Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins on live and recorded programming, rivalries with Netflix and Amazon, and commercial-free viewing  —  Hulu Aims to Deliver What You Want to Watch Next  —  Imagine a television service that knows a viewer watches “Today” every morning and “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” at night.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Confirms Plans for Cable-Like Online TV Service  —  Streaming service says it's approaching 12 million subscribers  —  Video streaming site Hulu confirmed that it is aiming to put together a cable-style online video offering that would stream feeds of broadcast and cable channels by early next year.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg:
Sources: revamped Apple Music with more intuitive interface, expansion of online radio service, and more to debut at WWDC after mixed reviews and exec shakeup  —  Apple to Revamp Streaming Music Service After Mixed Reviews, Departures  —  Music service to get new interface at developers conference.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tampa Bay Times buys and closes Tampa Tribune, ending a 29-year competitive battle; at least 100 layoffs are expected  —  Tampa Bay Times buys and folds the Tampa Tribune  —  The Poynter-owned Tampa Bay Times announced Monday afternoon that it has acquired The Tampa Tribune …
Gizmodo:
Former contractors who curated Facebook's “trending” news section describe preferred media outlets, “Twitter” censorship, layoffs, more  —  Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists?  Here's What Happened When It Hired Some.
Michael Bachelard / Sydney Morning Herald:
SecureDrop makes leaking to Fairfax Media safe from metadata capture  —  Australian journalists make a promise to their confidential sources to protect their identity “in all circumstances”.  But snooping by the Australian government and security agencies under metadata retention laws have made that promise much more difficult to keep.
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN and Vice News team up to produce sports shows together and exchange content across TV and digital properties  —  Vice and ESPN Team Up to Produce Sports Shows  —  Partnership, which also involves swapping content, shows deepening relationship between Walt Disney Co. and Vice
Anup Kaphle / BuzzFeed:
Nepal revokes Canadian citizen Robert Penner's work visa after he wrote about Nepalese politics on social media and seeks “voluntary departure” by Thursday  —  Nepal Asks Canadian Citizen To Leave The Country For Tweeting About Its Politics  —  The government has revoked Robert …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Live Nation Will Stream Hundreds of Concerts in Virtual Reality … Live Nation has partnered with virtual reality (VR) streaming startup NextVR to stream hundreds of concerts and other events to users of VR headsets.  A first concert will be streamed this summer, and both companies plan to release a full schedule later this year.
Discussion: CNET, Gizmodo, IR.net, Fortune, The Verge and Engadget
Ken Doctor / Politico:
The New York Times now depends on readers for 57% of its revenue  —  Behind today's Times numbers: reader revenue  —  If there were any doubt about the importance of reader revenue to the future of The New York Times - and most of the news publishing business - consider these numbers …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Adobe acquires LiveFyre, plans to use user-generated content tech for client apps, sites; Storify, other products to be integrated into Adobe marketing services  —  Adobe is buying Livefyre so brands can have more free content  —  Adobe has acquired marketing startup Livefyre for an undisclosed sum …
 
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
CBS beats Q1 estimates with profit of $473M, up 20% YoY, on revenue of $3.85B, boosted by NFL, carriage deals, political ads; Simon & Schuster revenue flat
Ad Age:
Advertising Age Names Xerox's Josh Golden as Publisher
Discussion: @joshuajgolden and FishbowlNY
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Ben Makuch / Macleans.ca:
On World Press Freedom Day, VICE reporter Ben Makuch, currently in court battle with Canadian police, criticizes Canada's limited protections for journalists
Discussion: USA Today
Sruthijith KK / India - The Huffington Post:
Sources: Quartz Managing Editor Bobby Ghosh to be named editor-In-chief of Hindustan Times, replacing Sanjoy Narayan
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Adblock Plus and Flattr launch a publisher payment system, Flattr Plus, which distributes payments among sites from a monthly budget after taking a 10% cut