Mediagazer: A 2015 Gawker post based on Michael Lynton's emails from Sony Pictures hack is deleted from Gawker archive; Denton says takedown was confidential by court order (Steven Perlberg/BuzzFeed)

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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:

Sources: Apple to debut Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV at WWDC; one source says the app may launch this summer — And Apple TV — which has been banned from Amazon since late 2015 — is returning to the retailer's virtual shelves. — Managing Editor, BuzzFeed San Francisco

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter announces a new deal for year-round NFL content that includes a 30-minute live digital show that will air five nights per week — Twitter lost the deal to stream the NFL's Thursday Night Football games this year to Amazon, but today the company is announcing a new multi-year agreement …

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Sony Pictures Entertainment names Tony Vinciquerra, formerly of Fox Networks Group, its CEO, as the company shifts toward TV — LOS ANGELES — Hollywood has a new mogul. — Sony Pictures Entertainment, bedeviled in recent years by movie misfires, a devastating cyberattack and executive ejections …

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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:

A 2015 Gawker post based on Michael Lynton's emails from Sony Pictures hack is deleted from Gawker archive; Denton says takedown was confidential by court order — The deleted article on Gawker, which is no longer in operation, published leaked emails from Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton.

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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

BuzzFeed Motion Pictures' Jessica Chambers docuseries, based on a BuzzFeed investigation, will air on the Oxygen channel, the studio's first TV show pickup — ‘What Happened to...Jessica Chambers’ will examine the death of a Mississippi teen, whose story was first told in an investigative piece …

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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Sources: TPG Capital in talks to acquire 10% of Vice Media for just over $500M; other prospective bidders include CVC Capital Partners — A US private equity group which owns a stake in Airbnb is in talks about buying a shareholding in Vice Media, the millennials-focused news and entertainment group …

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Sam Roberts / New York Times:

Robert H. Phelps, who missed the Watergate scandal as an editor at The New York Times, has died at 97 — Robert H. Phelps had a distinguished career at The Boston Globe, shaping the modern paper, overseeing the coverage in major series that won Pulitzer Prizes, and serving as the newspaper's executive editor for 11 years.

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

IJR hires Shareblue's Tommy Christopher to diversify its political coverage; he starts in a a few weeks and will launch a new vertical called The Response — Independent Journal Review is often described as a conservative viral news upstart. While it grew an audience of nearly 28 million uniques …

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Rishika Sadam / Reuters:

Verizon to buy 5G spectrum holder Straight Path Communications for $3.1B — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), the No.1 U.S. wireless carrier, is buying wireless spectrum holder Straight Path Communications Inc (STRP.A) for an enterprise value of about $3.1 billion, ending a bidding war with rival AT&T (T.N).

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Amid the White House's credibility issues, substitute press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces the same challenge as Sean Spicer, with incongruous claims — Trump tells NBC he planned to fire Comey — When White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders held her first press conference …

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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

FCC's website has been flooded with 128K+ identical fake anti-net neutrality comments via its public comment system API — Several people we spoke to denied they had posted comments to the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) feedback pages. — A bot is thought to be behind the posting …

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