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4:35 PM ET, March 1, 2016

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Ken Doctor / Politico:
LA Times staffers in dispute with bosses after Oscars tickets initially allocated to executives, leaving reporters unable to attend the event  —  Oscar spotlight a dim one for hometown L.A. Times  —  While old-fashioned investigative journalism took center stage in Los Angeles at the Oscars Sunday evening …
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
LA Times Editor Davan Maharaj could be given joint publisher-and-editor role, more executives to depart in wake of CEO Jack Griffin's firing  —  Top Tribune executives said to be on the way out in house-cleaning  —  Some of Jack Griffin's top executive hires will soon follow him out the door at Tribune Publishing.
Discussion: The Wrap
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 …
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New York Times:
Fake New York Times article claiming Elizabeth Warren endorsed Bernie Sanders was viewed over 50K times and received over 15K shares  —  Fake New York Times Article Claims Elizabeth Warren Endorsed Bernie Sanders  —  A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed …
Alex Balk / 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 …
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Forget ‘Spotlight’: There's a war against journalism  —  Excuse me for a) not watching the big Academy Awards whoopdedoo on Sunday night, where “Spotlight” — a movie about remarkable work by investigative journalists at an East Coast metro newspaper not unlike my own …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chris Morris, contract photographer for Time, roughed up by Secret Service agent at Trump rally at Radford University in Virginia
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.
Discussion: Re/code and Variety
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  —  Guardian editor Katharine Viner says plan is to ‘get readers paying for it’, but rules out online paywall  —  Guardian editor Katharine Viner …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Conde Nast acquires Poetic, London-based real-time content editing system, co-founded by ex-Twitter engineer Blaine Cook; terms not disclosed  —  Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer  —  Condé Nast has acquired Poetica …
Discussion: MinOnline, WWD, @scott_sage and @jamesweiner
Alex French / New York Times:
How a Fox News analyst, Wayne Simmons, fooled the network and conservative media into thinking he was an ex-CIA operative  —  The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst … Supported by  —  Kent Clizbe, a 55-year-old former C.I.A. officer and intelligence contractor, has cultivated a diverse set of interests in his later years.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Economist to relaunch its lifestyle and culture title, Intelligent Life, as 1843 next week, will expand coverage beyond Europe to include Asia and America  —  The Economist relaunches Intelligent Life as 1843  —  The Economist's lifestyle and culture title is getting a global makeover.
Discussion: @rafat
Financial Times:
Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work, to offer business version of the network to its global staff  —  Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work  —  The Financial Times is working with Facebook to offer a business version of the popular social network to its staff around the globe.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
As MSNBC shifts focus from liberal talk shows to breaking news, opportunities at the network have diminished for nonwhite TV personalities  —  Is #MSNBCSoWhite?  The departure of Melissa Harris-Perry raises the issue  —  MSNBC spent about six years building itself into a different kind …
Discussion: Jezebel and New York Magazine
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Melissa Harris-Perry was a rare voice of substance on cable news
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Snapchat brings Live Stories to the web for the first time  —  Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web.  Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online.
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Dan Abrams / Mediaite:
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
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