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Tribune Publishing reassigns top editors as editor-publishers at 8 papers, reports Q4 revenue up 1% to $462M YoY, ad revenues down 1.9% to $268M — TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER 2015 RESULTS — Michael Ferro Donates Chicago Sun-Times Stake Tribune Adopts Content …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook will now show Live Videos higher in News Feed provided they are currently live and not recordings, making site more like cable news than a newspaper — Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper ... and More Like Cable News — Facebook's News Feed long functioned as a sort …
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South China Morning Post:
Headline news: editor at liberal Chinese newspaper fired over front page double meaning — Deputy editor is also censured over ‘serious public opinion guidance incident’ — Nectar Gan and Mimi Lau in Guangzhou — Main menu — An editor of an outspoken newspaper in southern China …
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Mercury News:
Bay Area News Group consolidating multiple newspapers into East Bay Times and The Mercury News starting April 5, with reduction in staff; 3 weeklies to be added — Bay Area News Group announces newspaper rebranding — The Bay Area News Group announced Tuesday that it is combining …
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Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
Sources: Italian daily newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa likely to merge — Italy's L'Espresso, Agnelli family mulling newspaper merger: sources — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and CIR holding are considering merging their two editorial operations, which include La Stampa and la Repubblica newspapers, sources said on Wednesday.
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
IAB/YouGov study of 2K UK adults: 47% of people 18-24 use adblockers, 54% would turn off blockers to access content — Study: More than half of all ad blocker users would disable them to read content — The latest IAB/YouGov study on the state of ad blocking in the U.K. contains more bad news …
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Dan Rys / Billboard:
Tidal sued in claim for royalty payments by Yesh Music, which has also sued Slacker, Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Beats Music — Tidal Hit With Lawsuit Over Royalty Payments — EMAIL ME — The company calls for tort reform in a statement refuting the suit's claims.
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Jay Z's streaming music service Tidal has fired CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell
Jay Z's streaming music service Tidal has fired CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Yahoo Launches eSports News and Video Site — Yahoo has taken a hatchet to big pieces of its media operations, but continues to invest in key vertical segments: The company is launching an eSports gaming news and video site, hoping to lure fans in the fast-growing competitive gaming space.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sun editor Tony Gallagher on Brexit, journalism as a trade not profession and how the BBC never breaks stories — Sun editor Tony Gallagher said the paper has not yet decided whether it will campaign for Britain's exit from the European Union. — But speaking at a conference in London yesterday …
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Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
BBC Teams Up With Viber, WhatsApp to Distribute Content — Publisher Goes to Apps As It Seeks Younger Audience — Viewability and Verification in the Age of Programmatic — In an effort to reach a younger and more elusive audiences, the BBC has struck new agreements to distribute …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
UK culture secretary to rush closure of loophole allowing viewers to watch BBC iPlayer without a TV license, launches initiative on impact of adblockers — Government to bring forward law to close BBC ‘iPlayer loophole’ — Culture secretary also asks if BBC shows such as Strictly Come Dancing …
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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
AT&T to launch DirecTV as a streaming service by this fall, to have three tiers including free — AT&T and DirecTV to launch streaming TV service later this year — AT&T has announced that it plans to offer internet-based streaming TV service later this year.
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