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3:40 AM ET, May 2, 2017

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New York Times:
Some employees saw Ailes lieutenant Bill Shine's presence as sign 21st Century Fox wasn't serious about culture reform  —  Fox News on Monday announced the exit of one of its co-presidents, Bill Shine, removing a holdover from the Roger Ailes era and signaling that the network is prepared …
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Murdoch memo: Fox News co-president Bill Shine resigned, to be replaced by Suzanne Scott and president for programming and Jay Wallace, president of news  —  MURDOCH statement to Fox News employees http://twitter.com/...
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A look at the importance to the Murdochs of the 21st Century Fox bid for full ownership of Sky, and how regulators may use a “fit and proper” standard  —  LONDON — For most of the last 10 years, the Murdoch family, which controls 21st Century Fox, has wanted one thing …
Discussion: @dylanbyers and @nytnickc
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Twitter unveils 16 streaming partners for its live video service, including BuzzFeed, Verge, Viacom, WNBA, MLBAM, PGA, Bloomberg, Live Nation, more  —  Last year: NFL.  This year: Bloomberg, the WNBA, Live Nation and our friends at The Verge.  —  Yesterday, Twitter announced it was building …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Alex Hardiman, formerly of The New York Times, has been promoted internally to become Facebook's head of news products  —  Alex Hardiman, formerly of the New York Times, has been promoted internally to take the job.  —  Facebook made an important hire in its effort to curb false news.
Ben Makuch / Motherboard:
Journalist Barrett Brown, who broke stories about the Anonymous hacking group, released after he was re-arrested on Thursday after speaking with Motherboard  —  I never would've interviewed Barrett Brown if I'd known it would lead to him being re-arrested.  —  Brown, of course …
Discussion: Courage Brown
CNNMoney:
NYT readers are canceling their subscriptions over a column by the paper's new conservative columnist Bret Stephens in which he questioned climate change  —  A new columnist at The New York Times and his views on climate change have prompted some readers to cancel their subscriptions in protest.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times' popular morning news podcast The Daily is coming to weekends and to Spotify  —  The New York Times's morning news ("narrative news") podcast will soon come out on weekends as well.  Other ambitious Serial-style audio shows are also in the works, the company announced …
Discussion: Slate
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
As Longreads turns eight, a look at how membership fees have funded original reporting since the startup's acquisition by Automattic in 2014  —  A lot of startups have wanted to be “a great place for writers.”  Longreads appears to actually be succeeding at this.  —  At eight, Longreads is a bit of a wizened survivor.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Ryan Seacrest confirmed as new co-host of “Live” with Kelly Ripa; the show will be renamed “Live with Kelly and Ryan”  —  Kelly Ripa has settled on Ryan Seacrest as the new permanent co-host of her syndicated daily morning show, which as of today is renamed “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”
 
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Mediaite:
LawNewz Network buys CourtChatter.com, which covers trials via live video and document archiving and includes chat
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Axel Springer-owned Android news aggregation app Upday expands into 16 countries, comes preinstalled on Galaxy S8 in Germany, France, Poland, and the UK
Owen Bowcott / The Guardian:
UK parliamentary committee suggests fines for social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, that fail to remove illegal or extremist content
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
In interview, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discusses covering Trump's White House and his old boss, Stephen Bannon, and criticizes Fox News
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
A look at how computer scientists, tech giants, and startups are using algorithms and big data to combat fake news during election season in Europe
Discussion: VentureBeat
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Dan Rather, at 85, finds an audience as he criticizes Trump, with a SiriusXM show, 2M+ likes on his personal Facebook page, plus 1M+ likes for his company
 

 
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Financial Times:
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board

Raphael Satter / Reuters:
The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation say the attempt to insert a secret backdoor into XZ Utils “may not be an isolated incident”

Benjamin Sandofsky / Sandofsky:
A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device “the Apple way” and raising too much
 
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