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7:50 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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Ken Doctor / Politico:
The impact of Tribune Publishing changes: editor/publisher roles, the Maharaj memo, the exit of executives Denise Warren and Michael Rooney, and la.com plans  —  Between the lines of today's big Tribune reshuffle  —  The Jack Griffin era at Tribune Publishing is over - almost before it had really taken hold.
Chicago Sun Times:
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.
Jonathan Lansner / Orange County Register:   CEO Justin Dearborn says Tribune Publishing will bid for The Orange County Register
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 …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Sony cuts monthly rate for PlayStation Vue to $40, a $10 drop, and adds ESPN and Disney channels in 7 cities  —  PlayStation Vue gets price cut plus ABC, ESPN  —  Sony's PlayStation Vue online video service is getting a price cut and a content upgrade, gaining ABC, ESPN and channels from Disney.
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 …
Guardian:
30 Sudanese journalists launch hunger strike over forced closure of El Tayar newspaper, while editor-in-chief Osman Marghani faces death penalty  —  30 Sudanese journalists launch country's biggest ever hunger strike  —  Reporters protest against the forced closure of El Tayar …
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 …
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 …
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
 
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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
Discussion: @pressgazette
Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
BBC Teams Up With Viber, WhatsApp to Distribute Content
Discussion: BBC, BBC and The Drum
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
Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
Sources: Italian daily newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa likely to merge
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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
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Melissa Harris-Perry rejects MSNBC deal in scathing farewell
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