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12:45 PM ET, May 9, 2016

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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself  —  Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Spotify expands its video offerings, unveils slate of 12 original series which will be available to both free and paid users in US, UK, Germany, and Sweden  —  Russell Simmons, Tim Robbins to produce programs for Spotify  —  Videos will help Spotify compete with YouTube, Apple
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Sources: To combat ad-blockers, Google said to be exploring an ‘acceptable’ ads policy  —  Google is reportedly jumping deeper into the ad blocking issue by exploring an acceptable ads policy, publisher and industry sources say.  —  Google, together with Facebook, controlled 64 percent of the digital ad market last year.
Discussion: MinOnline and @digiday
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Till Faida, CEO of Eyeo, maker of AdBlock Plus, says it's close to 1B downloads and is installed on over 100M active devices  —  Ad blocking software's usage on the web, and now mobile, has forced the media and publishing industry to look to new revenue models.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Fusion partners with The Young Turks to launch a weekly, one hour show this fall covering election  —  Road trip!  —  Millennial-focused cable channel Fusion announced today it's launching a weekly, one-hour show this fall in tandem with online news series The Young Turks, founded by former MSNBC and Current TV host Cenk Uygur.
Discussion: The Wrap and Variety
BBC:
BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and team expelled from North Korea  —  BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are being expelled from North Korea after being detained over their reporting.  —  Our correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were stopped …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Judge dismisses mental competency lawsuit brought against Viacom's controlling shareholder, Summer Redstone, by ex-girlfriend  —  A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a salacious lawsuit that challenged the mental competence of Sumner Redstone and provided a rare window into the rivalries …
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
SEC filing: Time Inc paid $87M to acquire certain assets of Viant, parent company of MySpace  —  Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp Expects Viant to Contribute More Than $100 Million in Revenue This Year  —  Marketing Fact Pack  —  According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Sunday Times now lets subscribers share stories with non-subscribers on Facebook and Twitter, and is posting occasional stories outside paywall  —  The Times has no plans for relaxing its paywall.  But that doesn't stop the publisher from recognizing the need to experiment with reaching beyond its subscription audiences.
Discussion: @digiday
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A year in at Vox, Recode looks at its future: Video, distributed content, more podcasts, and no /  —  “I have nothing but not-nice things to say about people,” said Kara Swisher.  “But Jim Bankoff has been a fantastic leader.”  —  It's been a year since Vox Media, the company helmed by CEO Bankoff …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune adopts shareholder rights plan, known as a “poison pill”, to foil any hostile takeover attempts by Gannett  —  Also known as a shareholder rights plan, the measure is designed to protect a company and investors from hostile takeovers.  Tribune Publishing …
 
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Die Welt measures story quality for newsroom feedback using five criteria: bounce rate, pageviews, social shares, time spent on page and video views
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
GroundTruth, a Boston-based non-profit, which aims to train and support foreign correspondents, tries to plug gap in foreign reporting through podcasting
Discussion: @torystarr3
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Magna Global shifts $250M from its clients' TV ad budgets to spend on YouTube between October 2016 and December 2017
Discussion: Digiday
Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Blogger who faked cancer and recovery faces legal action from consumer watchdog in Australia; Penguin fined $30K for publishing her book without fact-checking
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