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7:30 PM ET, May 13, 2015

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Michael Reckhow / Facebook Media:
Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners  —  Introducing Instant Articles  —  As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook's Instant Articles can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, at least for now  —  Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program  —  Hey Web publishers!  Facebook is coming in peace.
Ana Andjelic / Adweek:
The New York Times' Facebook Deal May Prove to Be ‘Growth Hacking’ at Its Best  —  The New York Times, among a small cadre of other outlets, today announced it will start publishing selected articles directly into Facebook's News Feed.  Some think the move historic; others deem it unremarkable.
Guardian:
Trinity Mirror's UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go  —  Digital media brands set to be sacrificed with staff roles in UK expected to be lost ahead of company's expansion in North America  —  Trinity Mirror is understood to be preparing to close digital media brands UsVsTh3m …
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The legacy of Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed … It is perhaps a sign of the success of Trinity Mirror's web-savvy projects Ampp3d, UsVsTh3m and Row Zed that reports of their closure have generated such strong reactions from journalists across a range of titles.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
SoundCloud localizes for Brazil, its first non-English market, and hires Facebook head to monetize music  —  SoundCloud is finally making its audio-streaming service more accessible to non-English speakers, with the news that it's localizing its platform for Brazilian Portuguese.
Discussion: RAIN News and Digital Media Wire
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White House marks Austin Tice's 1,000th day of captivity  —  The White House is using the 1,000th day of journalist Austin Tice's captivity to renew calls on his captors to release him.  —  The Marine Corps veteran who went to cover the conflict in Syria for McClatchy and other news outlets …
Discussion: Poynter and @freeaustintice
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC News Walks Back Report That Pakistani Officer Gave Bin Laden's Location To CIA  —  NEW YORK — NBC News has walked back its Monday report that a Pakistani intelligence officer provided the CIA with Osama bin Laden's whereabouts a year before the U.S. raid in May 2011 …
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
McClatchy Reorganizes, Adding National Revenue and Video Teams, While Putting New Accent on Data Management  —  While redesigning all of its newspapers and digital products, The McClatchy Co. is also in the midst of a major corporate overhaul.  NetNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp examines …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing Hires Former NYT Exec Denise Warren to Oversee Digital Strategy  —  Tribune Publishing Co. is bringing in reinforcements to power its transformation into a digital media company.  —  On Wednesday, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and AdAge
 
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