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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 …
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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 …
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
Jay Z's streaming music service Tidal has fired CFO Chris Hart and COO Nils Juell
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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 — Bay Area News Group announces newspaper rebranding — The Bay Area News Group announced Tuesday that it is combining …
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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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
Nieman Lab:
How news organizations like Bloomberg, Washington Post, and Boston Globe are covering US primary results with social tools, video, results maps, and more — This just in: How 9 news organizations are reporting election results live on the web … NPR — Domenico Montanaro …
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