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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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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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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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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content …
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Brendan Sasso / National Journal:
Privacy advocates fear AOL's ad technologies will allow Verizon to better track users across devices — Verizon's AOL Deal Could Lead to New Privacy Problems — AOL's advertising technologies could help Verizon better track users across devices. — Verizon's $4.4 billion purchase …
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence
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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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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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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Labour advisor claims Conservative officials threatened BBC executives with far-reaching reforms if election coverage didn't “fall into line” — Tory officials threatened BBC during election, says Miliband's strategist — Tom Baldwin says senior BBC executives faced repeated threats …
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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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
AT&T to offer Hulu to its customers through its websites and mobile apps later this year to drive Hulu subscriptions — AT&T Will Begin Offering Hulu To Its Customers Later This Year — Hulu and AT&T announced an expanded deal today designed to bring the video streaming service …
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 — William Zinsser, a writer, editor and teacher whose book “On Writing Well” sold more than 1.5 million copies by employing his own literary craftsmanship to urge clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
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Jack Bouboushian / Courthouse News Service:
Disney, CBS Win Battle with FCC Over Disclosure — (CN) - The FCC cannot expedite the public disclosure of contracts and documents relevant to its review of the proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger, the D.C. Circuit ruled. — The Federal Communications Commission is tasked with reviewing merger proposals …
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