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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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New York Times:
Deposition of Sumner M. Redstone — A transcript of videotaped testimony of Mr. Redstone, taken Thursday at his Los Angeles mansion. The document includes some vulgar language.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
In videotaped deposition, Sumner Redstone denigrates former housemate and says he wants his daughter, Shari Redstone, to be his health-care agent — Videotaped Deposition of Sumner Redstone Airs in Competency Case — With help of interpreter, media mogul says he wants former companion who brought suit out of his life
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.
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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 …
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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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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Warner's Q1 music streaming sales up $72M, making it the biggest source of revenue, more than 50% from outside US; downloads down $17M, physical copies down $6M — Streaming music has become Warner Music's biggest business — Another milestone in the music industry's shift to streaming …
Daily Sabah:
Turkey sentences Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül to more than five years in prison on charges of revealing state secrets — Istanbul court sentences Cumhuriyet Daily's Dündar, Gül to 5 years in prison over ‘revealing state secrets’
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Reuters:
Assailant tries to shoot prominent Turkish journalist outside court
Assailant tries to shoot prominent Turkish journalist outside court
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
FCC officially approves Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, with conditions FCC chairman outlined last month — FCC Approves Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks … The FCC has formally approved the acquisition of Time Warner Cable …
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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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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Gannett Slams Tribune Publishing Chairman Michael Ferro; Oaktree Pushes for Merger Talks … Gannett Co. has taken aim at Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro in its latest salvo in the acquisition fight that began last month. Meanwhile, Tribune Publishing shareholder Oaktree Capital …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Homeland Security Investigations considering sending a subpoena to Techdirt, seeking to identify a commenter on asset forfeiture post — Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Us Over A Clearly Hyperbolic Techdirt Comment — Earlier this week, one of our writers, Tim Cushing …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sources: James Holzer, hired to improve FOIA request handling by the Obama administration, steps down after nine months — Sources: Obama transparency official stepping down — An official tasked with improving the operation of the Freedom of Information Act across the Obama Administration …
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