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10:45 AM ET, March 2, 2016

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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  —  Facebook Wants Celebrities for Its Live Streaming Service, and It's Willing to Pay Cash  —  Facebook has a new pitch for Hollywood celebrities and other famous people …
Discussion: Fortune and The Inquisitr News
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 …
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Tidal sued in claim for royalty payments by Yesh Music, which has also sued Slacker, Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Beats Music  —  Tidal Hit With Lawsuit Over Royalty Payments  —  EMAIL ME  —  The company calls for tort reform in a statement refuting the suit's claims.
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Jay Z's streaming music service Tidal has fired CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell
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 …
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
The Awl:
New Yorker Managing Editor Silvia Killingsworth to join The Awl as editor-in-chief in April, will relaunch The Hairpin  —  Job Filled  —  We're thrilled to announce that Silvia Killingsworth will be joining us here in April.  Silvia is currently the Managing Editor of the New Yorker …
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 …
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
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
AT&T to launch DirecTV as a streaming service by this fall, to have three tiers including free  —  AT&T and DirecTV to launch streaming TV service later this year  —  AT&T has announced that it plans to offer internet-based streaming TV service later this year.
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  —  WNYC's Note to Self sent 300,000 texts to 15,000 people; here's how they did it and what they learned
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Melissa Harris-Perry rejects MSNBC deal in scathing farewell  —  Melissa Harris-Perry has chosen the freedom to speak over an exit package.  —  On Tuesday, the outgoing MSNBC host said that her exit negotiations with the network fell through after she refused to accept the terms …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The AP debuts Election Buzz, an online dashboard that uses Twitter, Google data to track the conversation and search patterns concerning US elections
Discussion: Digital Trends and TIME
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Ex-Good Morning American anchor Josh Elliott joins CBSN, CBS's streaming news service
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Guardian Editor Katharine Viner says she wants more readers to become paying “members” of the newspaper but rules out online paywall
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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

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Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

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