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6:05 PM ET, May 22, 2016

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Peter Elkind / Fortune:
Sources: Sumner Redstone ousts Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and director George Abrams as trustees of entity that will control Viacom and CBS  —  Sumner Redstone, it seems, has at least one power move left in him—and he appears to be using it to benefit his daughter, Shari.
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Scott Collins / The Wrap:
Viacom: Move to Oust Philippe Dauman ‘Extremely Disrupting and Damaging’
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Current and former workers say Facebook Trending Topics group was ill-managed, relied on personal news judgment, had no intentional, institutional bias  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last July, in a seventh-floor conference room at Facebook's Lower Manhattan offices, a small group met to discuss the future of news media on the social network.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times memo: less commodity news, more story forms, assigning editors no longer focus on print with separate hub building print edition, more  —  An ambitious effort to overhaul The New York Times is beginning to come into focus.  —  In a memo sent to staffers Friday …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
TipOff is a twice-weekly email newsletter that explains sports to non-fans by writers from ProPublica and ESPN  —  Sports are ever-present in most Americans' lives.  There's practically always a game on in the background at restaurants or bars, and idle chit-chat in offices or parties often turns …
Discussion: Awful Announcing and @mdichristina
Nick Madigan / New York Times:
A look back at the abrupt end to The Tampa Tribune after a protracted war with The Tampa Bay Times  —  TAMPA, Fla. — A pair of 18-wheel rigs waited outside the former printing plant of The Tampa Tribune on a recent afternoon.  Workers were busy dismantling machinery and hauling it away, preparing for the building's demolition.
Discussion: @staceyshick
Garett Sloane / Digiday:
New York Magazine won't offer advertisers viewability guarantees unless ads consume less data  —  New York Magazine is getting real with its advertisers, telling them the website can't guarantee viewability of their ads if they don't consume less data.  —  “If the advertiser provides creative …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Columbia-based CONNECTAS nonprofit network connects reporters in Latin America and publishes collaborative investigating pieces  —  More than 100 media organizations partnered with the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the initial swath of stories in the Panama Papers leak.
Stassa Edwards / Jezebel:
Reaction to a horrid post on xoJane about an ex-friend's death reveals nasty formula fueling personal essays  —  On Thursday, xoJane published an essay titled “My Former Friend's Death Was a Blessing,” which outlines a series of petty grievances with a woman who, the piece reveals, later committed suicide.
Alexandra Ellerbeck / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Trump's insults against journalists should be taken seriously as they can lead to self-censorship and be a prelude to legislation to restrict media  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called the mainstream media “crooked” “unfair” “troublemakers” and The New York Times a failing …
Discussion: @brianstelter
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
CNN en Marcha's two mobile studios will cover news and events on the West and East coasts in the United States for CNN's Spanish channels  —  CNN en Marcha's two mobile studios will cover news and events on the West and East coasts in the United States for CNN's Spanish channels
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Walt Disney under pressure to stop Vice Media making tobacco ads  —  Campaigners target Frozen and The Jungle Book maker, which owns about 10% of youth-focussed media company  —  Anti-tobacco campaigners are pressuring Walt Disney to use its $400m (£274m) stake in Vice Media to stop …
Discussion: @tobaccofreekids and @mattgarrahan
Daria Sukharchuk / Journalism.co.uk:
Inside Agência Pública, the Brazilian investigative journalism agency led by women  —  Co-founder Natalia Viana shares insights into what it's like to work with a majority-female investigative team in Brazil  —  Credit: Image by armandolobos on Flickr.  Some rights reserved.
 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: China proposes acquiring stakes and board seats in country's online video companies to increase control
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The Hindustan Times is working to build the definitive online source of real-time air quality in all of India
Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Jihadi propaganda website, Arrahmah.com, had been making money through Google Adsense ads and other intermediaries
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
UK trade body BPI says song plays through platforms like YouTube nearly doubled in 2015 but revenue rose less than 1%, generating less income than vinyl sales
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France's highest court
Financial Times:
EU to propose rule that video streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime have 20% EU content in catalog
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Verizon and others are expected to bid $2B to $3B for Yahoo's core business, less than $4B to $8B figure reported earlier
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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