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5:35 AM ET, May 5, 2016

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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 just two months after launch  —  Publisher Trinity Mirror to announce closure of experimental national newspaper after sales fall to around 30,000 copies
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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
Business Wire:
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
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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 …
Poynter:
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 …
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
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 …
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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, @nycjim and @passantino
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  —  Hulu Confirms Plans for Cable-Like Online TV Service  —  Streaming service says it's approaching 12 million subscribers
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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
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 …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Charleston's family-owned The Post and Courier buys alt-weekly Free Times in Columbia, SC, hires McClatchy political reporter as editor, continuing expansion  —  South Carolina's top daily buys an alt-weekly in the state capital  —  Another alternative weekly has been purchased by a big daily …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
With a scripted daily comedy news show, Mic looks to add a little late night TV to the social video mold  —  None of my friends own (working) TVs.  Left-leaning, smartphone-toting, annoyingly predictable content consumers that we are, we're instead constantly emailing each other links to clips …
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
iHeartMedia revenue rises 4.1% in Q1 to $1.4B, and registered users of digital radio up 33% to 85M in April; firm plans to be “proactive” in selling assets  —  iHeartMedia's Debt Interest — Over a Half a Billion In First Quarter — Drags Earnings  —  EMAIL ME
Discussion: iHeartMedia, Inc.
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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
 
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