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12:30 PM ET, May 6, 2016

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Stephanie Grimes:
Las Vegas Review Journal fires Features Editor Stephanie Grimes, who had live tweeted an early staff meeting after Adelson sale  —  Why I'm out at the Las Vegas Review-Journal … In the five months since the Las Vegas Review-Journal was sold to the family of Sheldon Adelson for an obscene amount of money …
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
LinkedIn Buys Run Hop, Seeks to Make Feeds More Engaging  —  Run Hop co-founders find new roles with LinkedIn  —  LinkedIn Corp. snapped up Run Hop Inc., a small startup specializing in online content distribution, to accelerate its efforts to make users' feeds more engaging.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple Music's new student membership option discounts the service by 50%  —  Amid news that Apple Music is getting a makeover come this summer, Apple today launched a new plan to boost subscribers to its streaming music service and competitor to Spotify, SoundCloud, Tidal and others.
Fortune:
Insiders talk about the decline of Sumner Redstone and how the competence trial could impact the future of CBS and Viacom  —  The Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone (Part 1 of 3)  —  With a trial about to begin, lurid and alarming details of the billionaire's condition and the scheming around him continue to emerge.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Competency trial begins Friday for Sumner Redstone, with implications for his media empire of Viacom, CBS, and more  —  Sumner Redstone Trial Captivates Hollywood and Wall Street  —  The media mogul Sumner M. Redstone was in the middle of a bitter divorce from his wife of 52 years …
James Pinkstone / Vellum:
Composer claims Apple deleted 122GB of music from his laptop and replaced some songs with more widely available versions after he subscribed to Apple Music  —  Apple Stole My Music.  No, Seriously.  —  “The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
Alex Spence / Politico:
News Corp faces continuing ad revenue slump and circulation revenue decline at UK's Sun, Times, and Sunday Times  —  Slump at Sun and Times adds to Fleet Street's advertising woes  —  NEW YORK — Advertising revenues from News Corp's British newspapers fell by a “mid-teens” …
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Kshitiz Goliya / Reuters:
News Corp quarterly revenue falls 7.3% to $1.89B; firm reports net loss of $149M due to one-time charge from a lawsuit
Reuters:
Assailant tries to shoot prominent Turkish journalist outside court  —  An assailant attempted to shoot a prominent Turkish journalist on Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul just before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be announced, a Reuters witness said.
Pocket Blog:
Pocket adds Like and Repost functions to the Recommendations feed in its iOS and Android apps  —  There's a lot to ♥ in your new Recommended feed!  —  A few months ago, we introduced the ability to follow your friends and incredible curators on Pocket to see what they're recommending.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
With new columns and newsletters, ProPublica is trying to attract new readers and have more fun  —  While ProPublica spends most of its energy reporting long investigative stories on topics like patient safety and college debt, the nonprofit site has a goal of publishing at least one shorter piece per day.
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Former Venezuela parliament head sues News Corp for libel over Wall Street Journal story about US drug probe  —  Ex-Venezuela parliament head sues News Corp over drug article  —  The former head of Venezuela's National Assembly filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the Wall Street Journal …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
The Secret Service to run background checks on reporters applying for GOP and Democratic convention credentials, raising criticism from journalists  —  How The Secret Service Is Trying To Handcuff The Press  —  The media fightback has begun after the Secret Service was given the power …
 
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