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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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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


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


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.


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

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


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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BuzzFeed, Journalism.co.uk, @matlock, @kaiserofcrisps, @psmith, order-order.com, @robynlmunro, @tomscott, @robaeprice, @marksweney, @losowsky and mUmBRELLA
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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

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


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


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


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


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


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