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1:25 PM ET, May 30, 2018

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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:   #UPDATE Kiev announces arrest of man suspected of preparing to kill anti-Kremlin journalist
@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
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 …
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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 …
Terri Walter / Chartbeat Blog:
Direct mobile traffic to publisher sites surpasses referral traffic from Facebook, including desktop and mobile, for the first time  —  We've gotten a number of questions from this post about how we define direct traffic, and just to clarify, Chartbeat's definition of direct traffic does not include dark social.
Didit:
Gawker selects marketing and communications firm Didit as its stalking horse bidder, with a bid of $1,131,600  —  Didit (www.didit.com), a fully integrated marketing and communications firm, headquartered in Mineola, New York, announced that it has been selected by the Gawker Media estate as the …
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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
Brent Lang / Variety:
MoviePass parent company CEO says it has acquired the exclusive option to purchase production company Emmett Furla Oasis Films  —  Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of MoviePass, has acquired the exclusive option to buy Emmett Furla Oasis Films, the producers of “Lone Survivor” and “End of Watch,” Variety has learned.
Discussion: /Film, TechCrunch and The Playlist
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Oculus rolls out Oculus Venues, its platform for watching live sporting events, concerts, and other media in VR, with partners including Lionsgate and MLB  —  Oculus wants VR to bring its users into magical worlds dreamed up by game developers, but the company also needs people to see the headset …
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?
more at Techmeme »
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Lionsgate acquires a majority stake in 3 Arts Entertainment, the TV and film production company behind hits like “30 Rock” and “Silicon Valley”  —  “Always Sunny,” “The Office,” “Parks and Rec” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” stand out among 3 Arts TV series
Discussion: Variety
 
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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
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
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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
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
 

 
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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

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
 
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