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11:20 AM ET, May 5, 2020

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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
List of winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, including The Courier-Journal in Kentucky, The Baltimore Sun, NYT, WaPo, Reuters, Anchorage Daily News, and others  —  The winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes are being announced in atypical fashion Monday afternoon.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica were awarded the Pulitzer for public service, at a time when local journalism is in crisis, and NYT won three prizes
Digiday:
Sources: YouTube is developing a tool for news publishers to sell subscriptions to their digital properties via their YouTube channels  —  YouTube's latest olive branch to news publishers extends to publishers' own subscription businesses.  —  YouTube is developing a tool for news publishers …
Hollywood Reporter:
Telemundo chief Cesar Conde to oversee NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC as chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, succeeding Andy Lack, who will be leaving the company  —  NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is reorganizing his senior leadership team at the company, marking the first major executive restructuring …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Andy Lack was blindsided by the NBC News restructuring announcement, that also put Noah Oppenheim, who was expected to succeed Lack, on shaky ground
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Mark Lazarus to oversee all of NBCUniversal's entertainment TV operations, including the Peacock streaming service, as part of a massive company-wide reorg
Fern Siegel / The Streamable:
TiVo partners with Pluto TV to add the latter to its TiVo+ Content Network  —  The alliance between free Pluto TV and TiVo means the latter's customers can seamlessly access the streamer's channels and on-demand content.  —  The deal nicely expands Pluto's reach.  The platform offers 250-plus channels, from news to comedy.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Source: Pluto TV and Verizon signed a streaming distribution deal spanning pay TV, connected TV, and mobile
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Streamable
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Sources: investor group aligned with Donald Trump Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family is buying a ~$200M stake in One America News Network to rival Fox News  —  Possibly hedging against a 2020 loss, the Trump family builds ties to a network that's much more loyal than Fox.
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Google responds to Australia's plan to force online platforms pay for news content, arguing search results are like publishers' posters in a newsagent's window  —  Google Australia responds to government's move to force it to pay for content by arguing it provides publishers with free advertising
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN parent company WarnerMedia sends a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over new ad that WarnerMedia claims deceptively misuses CNN news coverage  —  New York (CNN Business)A lawyer for CNN's parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trump's …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Profile of Rich Jackson, who led Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana until being let go on Wed. and is now living in a Motel 6, blogging as The Homeless Editor  —  A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it.  He moved to a Motel 6.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Tensions grow between pay-TV providers, TV networks, and sports leagues over refunds, as live sports remain sidelined and customers continue footing the bill  —  As sports leagues weigh when to restart their seasons, they are talking to health officials, players, talent agents, TV networks, local governments and hotel workers.
Ted Sarandos / Los Angeles Times:
Ted Sarandos on what Netflix has learned about film and TV production during the pandemic, as the company continues filming in South Korea, Japan, and Iceland  —  Like workers in other sectors, many people in the television and film industry in California have been devastated by the coronavirus shutdowns.
 
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Thomson Reuters:
Thomson Reuters Q1: profit of $290M, up 6% YoY, on rev of $1.52B; Reuters News posts $155M revenue, $19M earnings, expects $25M loss from Q2 canceled events
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
FuboTV says it had 315K paid subscribers, up 37% YoY, at the end of 2019 and revenue of $146.5M, up 75% YoY
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A reflection on the diminished power of local newspapers, 50 years after Kent State's Akron Beacon Journal chronicled the death of four Vietnam protestors
Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times:
The EIC of Santa Barbara News-Press leaves after the newspaper published an editorial by owner Wendy McCaw that compared stay-at-home orders to Nazi Germany
Todd Spangler / Variety:
PewDiePie signs an exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube, following similar deals between YouTube and other stars in recent months
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Poynter Institute launches a COVID-19 chatbot on WhatsApp that uses information from 100+ independent fact-checkers in 70+ countries to debunk falsehoods