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7:15 PM ET, May 5, 2018

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
UK's ICO orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data it has on a US voter who brought a complaint, including how the data was obtained and what it was used for  —  In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Apple paid BuzzFeed for first-window rights for a documentary series and gave a cut of ad revenue, in a push to make Apple News a high-quality video distributor  —  Apple has become so serious about competing with Facebook, Google/YouTube and Twitter as a distribution outlet for news publishers …
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Max Willens / Digiday:   Business Insider's lifestyle brand, Insider, shifts staff from making News Feed videos to Facebook Watch and adds YouTube channels as Facebook engagement drops
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Meredith CEO says deadline for first-round bids on Time, SI, Money, Fortune is May 11; company expects $100M for Fortune; SI expected to fetch $150, says source  —  More than 150 potential buyers are circling some or all of the four magazines that Meredith is selling off — Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money.
Discussion: Deadspin
Elizabeth Flock / PBS NewsHour:
Inside the DC offices of Sputnik, a Russian-government funded media outlet that is “more pernicious” than RT, and operates in 34 countries in 30+ languages  —  One day this past fall on my morning commute from D.C. to Virginia, I tuned the radio to 105.5 FM, expecting to hear my usual bluegrass.
Discussion: @lizflock
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of one-year-old The Triibe, a Chicago digital media site for black millenials that wants to counter the legacy media narrative of a broken city  —  Morgan Elise Johnson (left) and Tiffany Walden, co-founders of The Triibe.  Photo by Keeley Parenteau.
Scott Bay / Wired:
How filmmakers could use machine learning, trained on data from prior box office hits, to predict a movie's success by understanding what motivates moviegoers  —  Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Facebook has been conducting market research to determine whether an ad-free subscription-based version would spur more people to join the network  —  - Internal debate whether users will pay to avoid advertisments  — Data-privacy crisis forces company to seek to regain trust
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at The Local Europe, a group of sites across nine countries, which offers expats practical advice and hopes to convert its community into paying members  —  “They've moved across borders for work or for love or whatever and often they're struggling with the same sort of issues …
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
On YouTube, channels that stream music nonstop resemble pirate radio stations; they benefit from the site's algorithms but are susceptible to copyright policing  —  A trick of YouTube's algorithms has led to the blossoming of hundreds of unlicensed, independent radio stations on the site …
Discussion: @thatericalper
Felix Salmon / Slate:
Bloomberg is already well funded by terminals; one reason Bloomberg is adding paywall is because it can, another may be to offset expenses of Bloomberg TV  —  In recent years, hundreds of publications have started putting up some version of an online paywall.
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At its NewFronts presentation, Vice announced it has bought Villain, a 12-person events company in Brooklyn that produces over 300 events a year
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Press Association:
The BBC and unions agree to a 3-year pay deal, an increase in the minimum salary to £20K, enhanced parental leave and more, subject to vote of approval by staff
Discussion: @phwood1