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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion — Telecom giant Verizon announced Tuesday it will be buying AOL for $50 per share, or about $4.4 billion. — The transaction will take the form of a tender offer followed by a merger, after which AOL will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon, the company said.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Internal memo from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on Verizon takeover — Verizon Is Buying AOL For $4.4B [Internal Memo From AOL CEO Tim Armstrong] — So this just happened. AOL, owner of TechCrunch, is getting acquired: Verizon said in a statement that it is buying the company for $4.4 billion, or $50 per share.
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
New report by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh on Osama Bin Laden's death prompts doubt, conflicting reports, and a partial NBC confirmation — Bin Laden death story stirs controversy, but also a confirmation — Seymour Hersh is among the most legendary investigative journalists.
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London Review of Books, NBC News, Vox, New York Magazine, Politico, The Intercept, Politico, New York Times, CNN, Salon, The Spy Who BIlled Me, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Corey Pein, @sarahw, Slate, @mlcalderone, @declanwalsh, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Poynter
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New questions about bin Laden's death and burial highlight lack of attribution in earlier Vanity Fair reporting — Why didn't Vanity Fair tell readers it hadn't seen bin Laden burial photos? — Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has shaken Washington with a massive piece, titled …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Slate, @dlboardman, Politico, @cashut, The Huffington Post, @erikwemple, BBC, Business Insider and ThinkProgress
BBC:
Secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death in Bangladesh, in third such attack this year — Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death — A secular blogger in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since the start of the year, police say.
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The Daily Star, ABC, CNN, Associated Press, International Business Times, oneindia.com, @masalabai and The Indian Express
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to three and a half years in prison on espionage charges for leaking info to New York Times reporter James Risen — Ex-C.I.A. Officer Sentenced in Leak Case Tied to Times Reporter — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Central Intelligence Agency officer …
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The Intercept, @dangillmor, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Gawker, @alexburnsnyt, RT, Washington Post, @katedavidson, @jcenters and The Week
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg Politics co-host Mark Halperin apologizes to presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for interview questions focusing on his Cuban heritage — Mark Halperin apologizes to Ted Cruz — Bloomberg Politics co-host Mark Halperin apologized to Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday for a recent interview …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Jack Shafer ‘let go’ from Ethicist team by New York Times Magazine — The New York Times Magazine's three-person approach to its storied Ethicist column is already showing signs of wobbliness. Politico media critic Jack Shafer, one of the experts tapped for a slightly renamed version of the column …
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New York Times and FishbowlNY
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Mark Luckie, Twitter's manager of journalism and news, leaving to focus on his forthcoming book — Mark Luckie to leave Twitter — Mark Luckie, the former Washington Post social media editor who is now manager of journalism and news at Twitter, is leaving the social media company, he announced Monday.
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@alexjamesfitz, @rungomez, @marksluckie and The Drum
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Warner Music Says Streaming Revenue Has Passed Downloads — Here's another sign that the music industry has shifted from selling songs to selling subscriptions: Warner Music Group says that last quarter, streaming music revenue passed revenue from selling downloads.
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Business Insider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and RAIN News
Brian Flood / Adweek:
ESPN to announce deal with Cablevision that lets advertisers access multiscreen audience data — ESPN and Cablevision Are Set to Announce a Game-Changing Data Deal — ESPN will announce a first-of-its-kind data deal with a cable TV provider at its upfront presentation tomorrow.
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David Weinberger / Slate:
NPR opens API to authorized developers to build device-specific versions of NPR One streaming player — NPR Initiates Phase Two of Plan to Become the Pandora of News — The announcement by National Public Radio that it's opening access to an application program interface, or API …
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NPR.org, @fkbarrett and RAIN News
BBC:
Amos Yee, the 16-year-old blogger behind the anti-Lee video, found guilty on two charges by Singapore court, faces up to three years in prison — Amos Yee: Singapore teen behind anti-Lee video found guilty — Amos (right) posted his video in late March and was arrested soon after
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Associated Press, Fusion, USA Today, International Business Times and Singapore
Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed:
Instagram says it erred in shutting down The Shade Room, a TMZ-style publication that had 700k followers — Instagram Says Shutting Down The Shade Room Was A Mistake — The social photo sharing service says it wrongly removed The Shade Room account, but refuses to elaborate.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
For the first time, pay TV subs declined in Q1, industry contracting at rate of 0.5% per year — Cord-Cutting Alert: Pay-TV Business Declines for First Time During Q1 — The U.S. pay-TV business keeps shrinking, albeit slowly — but for the first time ever, the sector dropped a net number …
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Digiday, Home Media Magazine and Radio & Television …
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