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Tribune Publishing board unanimously rejects Gannett offer, says it understates firm's value — Tribune Publishing's Board Unanimously Rejects Gannett's Unsolicited Proposal — Opportunistic Proposal Understates the Company's True Value and Is Not in the Best Interest of Shareholders

Discussion: FishbowlNY, WWD, CNNMoney, Variety, @robertfeder, @mattdpearce, @benmullin, Business Insider, Fortune and Politico

Roger Yu / USA Today:

As Tribune Publishing swings to loss in Q1, analyst Ken Doctor says revenue numbers favor Gannett's bid but negotiations will likely be a test of wills — Tribune Publishing posts $6.5M of Q1 loss on ad sales drop, higher costs — Tribune Publishing, which owns the Los Angeles Times …

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Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn announces plans for seven new foreign bureaus in “entertainment oriented” cities — Tribune Publishing outlines plan to expand Los Angeles Times globally — Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn on Wednesday traced the contours …

Discussion: Politico, @howardowens, @ckrewson, @siddhmi, @rar, @poynter, @joepompeo and Poynter

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Trinity Mirror execs face investor questions Thursday as The New Day misses print sales goal of 200K, instead selling closer to 30K — Trinity Mirror shares hit three-year low ahead of AGM — Publisher's top executives face grilling over The New Day and phone-hacking payouts at investor meeting on Thursday

Discussion: Coffee House, @danlevene, Guardian, mUmBRELLA, @mathewi, @rupertmyers and City A.M.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Sources: Trinity Mirror's The New Day to close 2 months after launch; last issue on Friday — The New Day newspaper to shut only two months after launch — Publisher Trinity Mirror to announce closure of experimental national newspaper after sales fall to around 30,000 copies

Discussion: @betheleri, @cjsnowdon, @chuckthomasuk, @scottygb, @markwatts_1, @janemartinson, @patrickwintour, @mrsteerpike and Politico

Bloomberg:

Sources: YouTube working on Unplugged, a subscription service offering cable channels over the Internet, expected to debut 2017 — YouTube Said to Plan ‘Unplugged’ Online TV Service for 2017 — Google has been plotting a web TV service since 2012 — Large media companies CBS, Fox, Comcast haven't signed up

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.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple Music revamp will bring black and white UI, “huge artwork”, and lyrics integration; new version launches via iOS 10 beta this summer

Discussion: Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Tech Insider, The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget and MacRumors

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 CEO confirms live programming from broadcast and cable brands coming to subscribers in 2017, will include sports, news, and events

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Hulu now has 12 million subscribers, but growth is slowing

Discussion: TechCrunch, CED, The Drum, Multichannel News, The Wrap and CNNMoney

Richard Danielson / Tampa Bay Times:

Tampa Bay Times borrowed $13.3 million to finance Tribune purchase — TAMPA — The Tampa Bay Times took on about $13.3 million in new debt just before it purchased its main competitor, the Tampa Tribune, according to a mortgage filed in Pinellas County. — 3 Months Ago 4 Months Ago 5 Months Ago

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

The Tampa Tribune's closure signals how the private equity formula of milking newspapers could play out in lots of cities — Tampa just lost a daily newspaper; is this the continuation of an old trend or the start of a new one? — I rewatched Page One not long ago — the documentary …

Discussion: @ryanchittum, @jbenton, @shansquared, @jbenton, Miami New Times, Tampa Bay Times, Wall Street Journal, City A.M., New York Times, New York Post, Reuters, Sonoran Weekly Review and MarketWatch

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Vox Media creates a Snapchat Studio, and SB Nation is going bilingual with the help of Telemundo — Vox Media announced a bunch of new partnerships Wednesday (see: corporate synergy), including a new partnership between SB Nation and Telemundo to create “the first-ever mobile …

Discussion: Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, @penelopejones, Ad Age and WWD

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google enables HTTPS for all sites on its Blogspot domain, two years after Wordpress — Google enables HTTPS for all Blogspot sites — Google today made HTTPS connections the default for all of the sites on its Blogspot domain. — Google first enabled HTTPS for Blogspot last September, but at the time, it was an opt-in feature.

Discussion: Computerworld, @swiftonsecurity, CNET, The Next Web, TheTechNews, TechWeekEurope UK, CrazyEngineers, Industry Leaders Magazine, Engadget, Google Online Security Blog, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

NBC relocated entire Nightly News to Trump Tower on Wednesday when Trump became apparent Republican nominee, will offer same to Democratic nominee — NBC Relocates ‘Nightly News’ to Trump Tower, for a Night — On the day that Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for president, NBC came to him.

Discussion: @jackmirkinson, @passantino and @nycjim

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