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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 …
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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.
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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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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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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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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 …
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 …
Nieman Lab:
How news organizations like Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Boston Globe are covering US primary results with social tools, video, results maps, and more — This just in: How 9 news organizations are reporting election results live on the web … NPR — Domenico Montanaro …
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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 — Guardian editor Katharine Viner says plan is to ‘get readers paying for it’, but rules out online paywall — Guardian editor Katharine Viner …
Columbia Journalism Review:
Why private-college police forces are a new front in the fight over public records — In 2014, Paula Lavigne, a reporter for ESPN's Outside the Lines program, began investigating college athletes and the justice system. Lavigne wanted to know whether prominent athletes receive preferential …
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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.
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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 …
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