Mediagazer: Tribune Publishing Hires Former NYT Exec Denise Warren to Oversee Digital Strategy (Lukas I. Alpert/Wall Street Journal)

4:55 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.

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.

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.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, New York Times, @dangillmor, @danprimack, @mikeisaac and The Loop

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.

Discussion: Vox, Poynter, @om, @caseynewton, Hot Air, bookforum.com, mUmBRELLA and @sippey

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles

Discussion: Business Insider and ZDNet

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.

Discussion: One Man & His Blog and @paulbradshaw

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 …

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

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.

Discussion: @niemanlab, @abeaujon, @celiadugger and FishbowlNY

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Agence France-Presse and Washington Post

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

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 …

Discussion: Consumerist, @brendansasso, @nationaljournal, Bloomberg View, Talking Biz News, Crain's New York Business, Forbes, Tech.pinions and MediaPost

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

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: AdAge and Chicago Tribune

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 …

Discussion: Poynter, Talking New Media, NetNewsCheck and NetNewsCheck Latest

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

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 …