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10:41 AM ET, May 8, 2017

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Sinclair Broadcast Group acquires Tribune Media in a deal valued at $3.9B, paying $43.50 a share, a 25% premium over its average share price in Feb  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group has set a $3.9 billion merger agreement with Tribune Media, a deal that will bring more than 200 TV stations under …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Comcast and Charter, the two largest cable operators in the US, announce wireless partnership, will work together to compete with AT&T and Verizon  —  Cable giants will collaborate to negotiate better contracts  —  Companies to work only with each other on new wireless deals
Recode:
Interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on his approach to media ownership rules, mergers, net neutrality, and investment in broadband infrastructure  —  Net neutrality, antitrust, infrastructure, mergers — it's all here.  —  On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode …
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Sam Gustin / Motherboard:
John Oliver urges internet users to defend net neutrality again, leading to the FCC's comments submission site temporarily crashing, as it did in 2014  —  HBO comedian John Oliver is a strong supporter of net neutrality, the principle that all internet content should be treated equally.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Advertisers should stop rushing to Facebook and Google, and combat fake news by supporting the real news ecosystem, by giving newspapers their business again  —  PHILADELPHIA — Hey, America's Advertisers: You got some good news last week, didn't you?  —  Facebook, where you are increasingly placing …
Discussion: @perlberg
BuzzFeed:
After Le Pen's party banned BuzzFeed, Politico, Charlie Hebdo, more from election-night event, Le Monde, Bloomberg, and others pulled their reporters out too  —  The banning happened shortly after BuzzFeed News published investigations exposing racist and antisemitic statements made by Front National candidates.
USA Today:
Gannett asks FBI to probe wave of phony Facebook accounts that like USA Today and affiliates; firm has taken steps including blocking new Bangladeshi followers  —  SAN FRANCISCO - The parent company of USA TODAY said it had asked the FBI to investigate a wave of fake Facebook accounts so large …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Prosecuting Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, for publishing leaked information, would create a massive threat to press freedom in the US  —  Lady Gaga — all in black and wearing a witch's hat — is interviewing Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he's been holed up for years.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Pudding, a site publishing painstakingly crafted data visualization essays, financed via founders' work for clients like YouTube and Google  —  “Our goal is for The Pudding to be a weekly journal.  We specifically seek out stories that aren't news related, because we don't want to compete in that space."
Discussion: @niemanreports and @ylichterman
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed:
How a small group of “alt-left” British websites, including The Canary, built enormous audiences on Facebook with relentless pro-Corbyn coverage  —  Even if you're a political obsessive you've probably never heard of Thomas G Clark.  It's understandable: He's not a politician …
Discussion: @shippersunbound and YouTube
 
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Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Profile of Ryan Schreiber and his influential music website Pitchfork about two years after its acquisition by Condé Nast
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Interview with producer and host Alex Laughlin of The Washington Post's first in-house narrative podcast
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Profile of InfoWars' Alex Jones, who is now an insider after a career spent crusading against the establishment and the elite
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New report details every step in the Electionland initiative, a 1000+ person effort led by ProPublica, including a post mortem
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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