Mediagazer: The news business should refuse Facebook's deal (Ryan Chittum/Columbia Journalism Review)

12:05 PM ET, October 30, 2014

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The news business should refuse Facebook's deal — The lure of online ad revenue isn't worth surrendering news judgment to Zuckerberg's algorithm — Facebook wants publishers to become its junior partners, embedding their news and content into Facebook itself (at least on mobile) …

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