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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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
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 …
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
 
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Jack Bouboushian / Courthouse News Service:
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Small ISP Birch Communications stands up to Rightscorp's DMCA subpoena for user IDs and wins
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