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12:10 PM ET, March 6, 2015

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Andy Lack named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC  —  Andy Lack, the former NBC executive who was rumored to be considering a return to the network, has been named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke announced in a memo to staff Friday.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
NBC insiders expect others to lose their jobs in the fallout after Brian Williams incident  —  INSIDE THE NBC DEBACLE: There's a much bigger story here than the Brian Williams scandal  —  In the end, it took only about a month for the old-timers at NBC News to get what they wanted: heads on a platter.
New York Times:
Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts  —  ISIS Is Adept on Twitter, Study Finds  —  The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate, has been astonishingly successful …
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Hiba Zayadin / Mediashift:
Fighting Words: Inside the Social Media War Against ISIS  —  It has been four months since the formation of a U.S.-led global coalition to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria.  Hundreds of airstrikes purporting to hit ISIS targets have been carried out since then.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New editor Impoco has Newsweek back in the black  —  Newsweek hopes to expand editorial staff to 100 by next year.  —  One year after the embattled Newsweek returned to print as a small run weekly, Editor-in-Chief Jim Impoco has apparently done something that eluded previous high-flying editors Tina Brown …
Discussion: @jimpoco, @learmonth and @jackshafer
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Tests New Ways To Mix Ads With News  —  Do ads belong in the ubiquitous news ticker that scrolls along during so many TV-news broadcasts?  CNN is willing to find out.  —  The Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet is open to the idea of running an advertiser's logo in its bottom-of-the-screen zipper …
Discussion: NewscastStudio, @bristei and FTVLive
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first  —  Apple, Music Labels Push Against Free Music on Spotify, YouTube  —  Right now it's easy to stream any song you want, whenever you want, legally, without paying a penny.
Discussion: @pkafka
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to relaunch Beats streaming music service in June; Apple TV changes likely later in 2015
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media Q4: revenue up 85% to $553M on increased TV advertising and retransmission fees  —  Tribune Media sees strong growth in fourth quarter  —  Tribune Media saw net income grow to $315 million in the fourth quarter, or $3.14 per share, according to financial statements released Friday.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former CEO and COO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze are working on their own digital media startup  —  Glenn Beck's top execs quit to form digital media startup  —  Glenn Beck's top two lieutenants have left Beck's Internet and television channel, TheBlaze, and are starting a new venture together.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Daily Mail in New York disputes journalist's ripping-off-the-web claims  —  Publisher ‘utterly refutes’ allegations by writer about his work requirements  —  The Daily Mail's New York digital operation has hit back at the journalist who wrote about spending a year ripping off the web with the Daily Mail online.
C. Custer / Tech in Asia:
China orders WeChat, Weibo, and news sites to crack down on coverage of pollution documentary “Under the Dome”, but some discussion continues  —  WeChat, Weibo ordered to crack down on viral pollution film ‘Under the Dome,’ but discussion continues  —  Over the past week, China has been going gaga over pollution.
Lockhart Steele / Lucky Peach:
How Eater drew in an audience through obsessive reporting and experimentation  —  Flooding the Zone  —  Lockhart Steele is the founder of Eater.com (with Ben Leventhal), Curbed.com, and Racked.com—and, after selling the group of sites to Vox Media in 2013, is now Vox's editorial director.
Discussion: @mattbuchanan and @angelapham
 
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
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Suhasini Raj / New York Times:
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Discussion: @raju
Steve Knopper / New York Times:
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