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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook announcements important to publishers included a bot platform for Messenger with a CNN demo, a Save to Facebook button, and quote sharing for apps — Here are the important announcements for publishers at Facebook's F8 keynote — Facebook's annual developer conference F8 …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Facebook makes its Live API publicly available, allows streaming directly to Facebook from non-mobile devices like drones, TV broadcast feeds — Facebook Opens Up Live Video to Developers to Allow Streaming from Any Device — Facebook just took video streaming on its Live platform beyond …
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Says Users Show Preference For Instant Articles Over Mobile Web Articles — Users are less likely to abandon such articles before they load because they are designed to be faster — Facebook mobile users are opening and sharing Instant Articles more frequently than mobile Web articles …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook announces Rights Manager to help video creators combat freebooting; content owners can apply for access beginning today — Facebook launches video Rights Manager to combat freebooting — There's an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet to meet with Styles department over story on Gay Talese — Gay Talese. — The New York Times continues to wrestle with last week's strange Gay Talese episode. Tomorrow, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet will meet with staffers …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Journalistic ethics questioned ahead of Gay Talese's 35-year work ‘Voyeur’ scheduled for book release this year: protect a source or report a crime? — Should Gay Talese have reported perverted motel owner to the police? — More than 30 years ago, Gay Talese met Gerald Foos …
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Financial Times:
Sources: BuzzFeed missed 2015 revenue target by over $80M with $170M, halves 2016 projection to $250M — BuzzFeed missed 2015 revenue targets, slashes 2016 projections — BuzzFeed missed its revenue target for 2015 and has slashed its internal projections for 2016 by about half …
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Email shows attorney worried in April 2015 that if Redstone's condition became public, he could have been removed from Viacom, 10 months before he stepped down — Year-Old Email Raises Questions About Sumner Redstone's Condition — Fears existed in April 2015 that disclosures about mogul's condition could force changes
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the 30 year relationship between Viacom's Sumner Redstone and CEO Philip Dauman as Dauman faces accusations of covering up mogul's health problems
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Politico:
Six Salon staffers laid off, including long-serving Assistant Managing Editor Ruth Henrich and Life Editor Kim Brooks, as part of budget cuts — Layoffs hit Salon — Layoffs hit digital news site Salon today, POLITICO has learned. — A Salon spokeswoman said that six staffers were affected by the layoffs.
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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
NCAA extends multi-platform deal with CBS and Turner for basketball championship by eight years, through 2032; deal valued at $8.8B — NCAA, CBS, Turner Extend ‘Madness’ — Eight-year extension valued at $8.8 billion … On the heels of one of the most exciting college hoops championship games games …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
E.W. Scripps buys Demand Media's high-performing humor site Cracked for $39M as part of digital expansion — No joke: Demand Media sells Cracked.com to E.W. Scripps for $39 million — Here's a story about a new media company selling an old media brand to an old media company that wants …
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Agence France-Presse:
China helps boost global movie earnings to record $38bn — Box-office takings rose 51% in the world's most populous nation, helped by locally made films and Hollywood blockbusters — Cinemas reaped record earnings around the world last year - $38.3bn - fuelled by rocketing attendance …
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