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1:45 PM ET, March 2, 2016

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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 …
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Tribune chair Ferro donates Sun-Times stake to charitable trust  —  Michael Ferro has donated his stake in the Chicago Sun-Times to a charitable trust.  File photo  —  Tribune Publishing Chairman Michael Ferro has donated his stake in the Chicago Sun-Times to a charitable trust.
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
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Verizon and Hearst announce joint video venture, will launch mobile-focused lifestyle and comedy channels aimed at millennials this spring  —  Verizon and Hearst to Create TV for Mobile Millennial Viewers  —  Seeking to entertain the elusive millennial, Verizon Communications and Hearst announced …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Hoaxmap creators Karolin Schwarz and Lutz Helm have collected and debunked almost 300 rumors about refugees in Germany since February 8 launch  —  Hoaxmap is collecting debunked rumors about refugees  —  Earlier this year, a group of refugees showed up in a supermarket in Groß-Gerau …
Discussion: CBC News, DW.COM and @poynter
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.
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 …
Discussion: @pressgazette
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 …
Discussion: BBC, BBC and The Drum
 
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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
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Melissa Harris-Perry rejects MSNBC deal in scathing farewell
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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
The Awl:
New Yorker Managing Editor Silvia Killingsworth to join The Awl as editor-in-chief in April, will relaunch The Hairpin
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
AT&T to launch DirecTV as a streaming service by this fall, to have three tiers including free
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
 
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