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5:40 AM ET, March 2, 2016

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Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook tinkers with News Feed to favor live video, making the site more like cable news  —  Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper ... and More Like Cable News  —  Facebook's News Feed long functioned as a sort of personalized newspaper—a collection of stories, pictures …
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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
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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Dan Rys / Billboard:
Tidal gets 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.
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 …
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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: Search Engine Land and TIME
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.
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 …
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 …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hachette reaches deal to buy publishing business of Perseus Books Group, 18 months after first attempt  —  Hachette Reaches New Deal With Perseus Books  —  The Hachette Book Group has reached an agreement to buy the Perseus Books Group's publishing business, 18 months after its previous attempt to acquire the company fell through.
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
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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
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 …
 
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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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Dan Abrams new site, LawNewz.com, gets 543K unique visitors in first month
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YouTube says it has created a team for minimizing mistaken copyright takedowns
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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
 

 
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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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