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9:00 AM ET, April 26, 2022

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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval  —  - Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says that, regardless of Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth”, whose stock closed down 12.9% on Monday  —  Trump said a Musk Twitter takeover would be a positive development, but he will stay with his own platform
The Verge:
Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”  —  Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $45.5 billion  —  Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's offer to purchase the company for $45.5 billion …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: rival strategies for CNN+, combined with unexpected events like Jeff Zucker's resignation and the Discovery merger, fueled the service's rapid demise  —  Chris Licht wasn't supposed to start his new job as CNN's chief until May.  —  But on Thursday he found himself addressing …
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Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club scraps the Human Rights Press Awards days before its plan to announce the winners, citing national security law fears  —  Foreign Correspondent's Club's decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Journalists from The Guardian, FT, and Daily Mirror were excluded from the UK Home Secretary's trip to Rwanda, where she signed a controversial immigration deal  —  Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel's trip to Rwanda this month.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Roku partners with Analytic Partners, Ipsos, IRI, and Nielsen to provide more ad data for marketing mix modeling and help it better compete with traditional TV  —  To catalyze the shift of TV ad dollars to streaming will require not only proof of streaming's performance but evidence of what makes it perform.
Discussion: @digiday and MediaPost
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Toni Reid joins YouTube as VP of product management to oversee Shorts, Gaming, livestreaming, and community products, after 24 years at Amazon  —  Toni Reid, after 24 years at Amazon, is joining YouTube as VP of product management to lead the video platform's Emerging Experiences and Community team.
Discussion: AdExchanger and Tubefilter
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix staff morale is down amid its declining stock price, subscriber losses, and an engineering restructuring to create “junior” and “senior” levels  —  As Netflix shares plunge to their lowest point in five years, the company risks losing its most valuable resource: its star employees.
Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times:
Analysis: Bloomberg Terminal had a 32.5% share of the financial data and analysis industry in 2021, with revenue up 5.2% to $11.6B; Refinitiv had a 19.7% share  —  MS-DOS for finance nerds refuses to die.  —  Like vampires, Freddy Krueger and goldbugs posting dual axis charts of US M2 overlaid …
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
In a joint statement, NY Post and former digital EIC Michelle Gotthelf say they have “amicably resolved” the wrongful termination lawsuit she filed in January  —  In joint statement, the New York Post & former digital editor in chief Michelle Gotthelf say they have “amicably resolved” the lawsuit she had filed. Gotthelf alleged she was wrongfully fired after she reported to her boss that a longtime Murdoch lieutenant sexually harassed her. https://twitter.com/...
 
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Kyle Paoletta / The Nation:
A look at The New York Times Book Review as it tries to uphold its long tradition of being “a political Switzerland” in the social media age
Sky News:
The UK's Commons Speaker summons Mail on Sunday's editor over an article citing MPs saying Labour leader Angela Rayner distracted Boris Johnson with her legs
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, plans to lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Joe Kahn's openness to criticism can help The New York Times, which hasn't had an ombudsman since 2017, rethink its approach to politics and government coverage
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Joy Press / Vanity Fair:
Streamers are acting like TV networks, pulling back on edgy content and seeking “elevated broadcasts”, like sitcoms, under financial pressure and competition