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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.
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Wall Street Journal, @reckless, @chrisgeidner, GeekWire, Street Fight, FishbowlNY, Scripting News, App Advice, @mikeisaac, AdAge, The Content Strategist, @pkafka, Forbes, @jonfortt, @alexjamesfitz, @katieboehret, @waltmossberg, @calumshepherd, @pbump, @jbenton, @lessien, @megan and New York Magazine
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why Facebook is starting a new partnership with 9 news publishers — Right now you're probably reading this story on CNNMoney, but someday you could be reading it within Facebook's app. — On Wednesday, Facebook will start letting a select number of news organizations publish stories directly to the social media site.
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Nieman Lab, New York Times, Gawker, @jackmarshall, NPR, @danprimack, @dangillmor and @mikeisaac
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.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web? — Facebook's pitch to host publisher content sounds great for improving user experience. But if Google follows in doing the same thing, it might not so great for the web.
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TechCrunch, Poynter, Vox, @caseynewton, @om, Hot Air and @sippey
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles
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Business Insider, ZDNet and Stratechery
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.
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@flashboy, One Man & His Blog and @paulbradshaw
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet on the highs and lows of his first year, wall between news and ad departments, and anonymous sources — One Year Later, 11 Questions for Dean Baquet — Talk about a tumultuous 12 months. — A year ago, Jill Abramson was still the executive editor of The Times.
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@abeaujon, @celiadugger, @niemanlab and FishbowlNY
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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New York Times, Agence France-Presse and Slate
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 …
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Poynter, Talking New Media, NetNewsCheck Latest and NetNewsCheck
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 …
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Chicago Tribune and AdAge