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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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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.
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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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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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Bloomberg Business:
‘Pulp Fiction’ Owner Miramax Sold to Qatar Broadcaster BeIN — Miramax, the film company that owns Oscar-winning movies including “Pulp Fiction,” was acquired by Qatar-based broadcaster BeIN Media Group. — The sellers include a unit of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and Colony Capital …
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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 …
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO will launch streaming services in Brazil and Argentina this year — HBO announced today it would be expanding its streaming footprint with the launch of standalone streaming services in Brazil and Argentina, which are set to go by year's end. These join the recently announced standalone service arriving …
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