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8:00 AM ET, May 8, 2017

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Reuters:
Sources: Sinclair close to buying Tribune Media for ~$44 a share; Tribune closed at $40.29 on Friday  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc (SBGI.O) is nearing a deal to acquire Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N) after prevailing in an auction for the U.S. regional TV station owner, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Paul Colgan / Business Insider Australia:
TPG Capital bids for Fairfax Media's metro papers, including Sydney Morning Herald, digital unit that publishes BI, HuffPost in Australia, and real-estate unit  —  Fairfax Media is considering a fresh proposal from US private equity giant TPG Capital to buy the Domain real estate business …
Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Advice for France: use caution in reporting on uncurated dumps of hacked emails, which can fuel viral misinformation, violate privacy, and confuse the public  —  A brief guide to the information wars.  —  Ooh, la la. So, it happened to you too.  The frontrunning presidential candidate got hacked …
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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.
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: @ylichterman and @niemanreports
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 …
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Profile of Ryan Schreiber and his influential music website Pitchfork about two years after its acquisition by Condé Nast  —  Baby's All Right, a club in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, is almost full when Ryan Schreiber arrives.  A burly 41-year-old, he's wearing a dark overcoat open …
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: YouTube
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with producer and host Alex Laughlin of The Washington Post's first in-house narrative podcast  —  ‘Other: Mixed race in America’ is a five-part mini-series that will feature new episodes every day this week  —  Credit: Screenshot from ‘Other: Mixed race in America’ from The Washington Post
 
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