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4:50 PM ET, May 4, 2016

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 Top News: 
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.
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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: Multichannel News
Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube is working on Unplugged, a paid subscription service offering streaming cable TV bundle, slated to debut as early as 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
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, Guardian and City A.M.
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, WWD and Ad Age
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.
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
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.
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.
 
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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
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
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Advertising Age Names Xerox's Josh Golden as Publisher
Discussion: @joshuajgolden and FishbowlNY
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN and Vice News team up to produce sports shows together and exchange content across TV and digital properties
 

 
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
 
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