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3:05 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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
How The New Yorker uses SnapChat to attract a young audience and experiment with its brand  —  'We're not afraid of emoji': How the New Yorker speaks Snapchat  —  In adapting its brand to Snapchat, not even the 91-year-old New Yorker is above using an emoji here and there.
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
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 …
Discussion: @rickedmonds
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
 
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Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
BBC Teams Up With Viber, WhatsApp to Distribute Content
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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
Discussion: @elanazak
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Melissa Harris-Perry rejects MSNBC deal in scathing farewell
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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
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Tidal sued in claim for royalty payments by Yesh Music, which has also sued Slacker, Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Beats Music
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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New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls
 
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