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12:00 PM ET, May 30, 2018

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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
ABC cancels hit sitcom Roseanne after racist tweet from star Roseanne Barr; ABC says tweet was “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values”  —  ABC has pulled the plug on “Roseanne.”  —  “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values …
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Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Viacom pulls reruns of the new Roseanne sitcom from Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT; Hulu says it's also dropping the show  —  ‘Roseanne’ reruns will be cancelled on the three channels starting tomorrow, a Viacom spokesperson said.  —  After a racist tweet by Roseanne Barr that created …
BBC:
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, appeared at a Ukrainian press conference on Wednesday  —  Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, is alive and well.
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@afp:
@skynewsbreak:   The head of Ukraine's security service says it received information about a Russian plan to assassinate Arkady Babchenko which it managed to prevent
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Edmund Lee / Recode:
James Murdoch says ~50% of Hulu's 20M subscribers opt for the $11.99/month ad-free plan, instead of the $7.99/month plan with commercials  —  But does he think Facebook could one day offer an ads-free version?  Maybe not.  —  Hulu has three principal owners at the moment, including 21st Century Fox …
Terri Walter / Chartbeat Blog:
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time  —  New data shows that for the first time, mobile direct-to-site traffic has surpassed Facebook.  Could this mean that mobile does not equal social after all?
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Martin Sorrell has purchased a 75% stake in Derriston Capital, to be renamed S4 Capital, with the aim of building a next-generation WPP  —  Former boss of world's biggest advertising group reveals he is already in takeover talks  —  Sir Martin Sorrell has revealed he is in takeover talks …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post offers a $90/year “premium EU subscription” with no ads and no data tracking to EU visitors in the wake of GDPR; a basic sub costs $60/year  —  Some U.S. publishers have blocked visitors from the E.U. to their sites rather than comply with the wide-ranging …
Ben Detrick / The Ringer:
Philadelphia 76ers exec Bryan Colangelo has been secretly using five Twitter accounts to criticize players, disclose sensitive info, and share team strategy  —  A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information …
Robbie Gonzalez / Wired:
Facebook will give researchers encrypted laptops to access Facebook's data and publish findings without pre-approval, in push to prevent abuse during elections  —  FACEBOOK IS KEEPING a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections.  Which elections, exactly?
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Axel Springer open sources its GDPR consent management tools, which can be adapted to address cookie-consent requirements under pending ePrivacy regulations  —  Publishers are griping about Google's power play regarding General Data Protection Regulation compliance.
 
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
WSJ reporter John Carreyrou says Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes asked Rupert Murdoch to kill WSJ investigation into the company but Murdoch refused
Doreen St. Félix / New Yorker:
Artist and journalist Alexandra Bell critiques racism in journalism by editing NYT stories and posting enlarged copies of the articles around New York City
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
21st Century Fox intends to convene a July 10 investor meeting to vote on $52.4B agreement to sell assets like FX and its movie studio to Disney
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
As Elon Musk feuds with media, a look back at the late 1990s, when he helped found Zip2 to assist newspapers with digital listings and netted $22M from its sale
Avi Asher-Schapiro / Committee to Protect Journalists:
A DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks raises press freedom questions about whether journalists could be implicated by sources' illegal behavior
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Bankruptcy judge accepts $1M opening bid for Gawker from ad agency Didit, which plans a “good gossip” site: “We'll cover celebrity babies and dating”, not DWIs
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Papua New Guinea says it will ban Facebook for a month in a bid to crack down on fake users and study how fake news and pornography spreads
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Wharton professor and renowned antitrust law expert Herbert Hovenkamp says the Dept of Justice is likely to succeed in blocking AT&T-Time Warner deal
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