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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Las Vegas Review-Journal editor-in-chief Keith Moyer plans to bring back in-house page design and copy editing, hopes to restore AP service, more — At the Las Vegas Review-Journal, new editor Keith Moyer finds a fixer-upper — Keith Moyer was in his sixth year of teaching journalism …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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