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9:40 AM ET, March 2, 2016

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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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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Source: Facebook may pay up to six figures for some celebrities to use its live streaming service in promotional push  —  Facebook Wants Celebrities for Its Live Streaming Service, and It's Willing to Pay Cash  —  Facebook has a new pitch for Hollywood celebrities and other famous people …
Discussion: Fortune and The Inquisitr News
Tribune Publishing Co.:
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 …
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  —  Tidal fires its CFO and COO  —  Tidal has let go of its CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell, the company confirmed to The Verge.  The news of their terminations was originally reported by the Swedish news site Breakit …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
The Awl:
New Yorker Managing Editor Silvia Killingsworth to join The Awl as editor-in-chief in April, will relaunch The Hairpin  —  Job Filled  —  We're thrilled to announce that Silvia Killingsworth will be joining us here in April.  Silvia is currently the Managing Editor of the New Yorker …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Melissa Harris-Perry rejects MSNBC deal in scathing farewell  —  Melissa Harris-Perry has chosen the freedom to speak over an exit package.  —  On Tuesday, the outgoing MSNBC host said that her exit negotiations with the network fell through after she refused to accept the terms …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
WNYC used Twilio to program 300K texts to 15K podcast listeners in a week-long series and test on information overload, received 1700 voicemail responses  —  WNYC's Note to Self sent 300,000 texts to 15,000 people; here's how they did it and what they learned
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The AP debuts Election Buzz, an online dashboard that uses Twitter, Google data to track the conversation and search patterns concerning US elections
Discussion: TIME and Search Engine Land
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 …
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
AT&T says it plans to launch a web TV 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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Ex-Good Morning American anchor Josh Elliott joins CBSN, CBS's streaming news service
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Guardian Editor Katharine Viner says she wants more readers to become paying “members” of the newspaper but rules out online paywall
Discussion: TheMediaBriefing
Dan Abrams / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams new site, LawNewz.com, gets 543K unique visitors in first month
Discussion: @danabrams
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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