Mediagazer: Facebook Says Users Show Preference For Instant Articles Over Mobile Web Articles (Jack Marshall/Wall Street Journal)

11:55 AM ET, April 13, 2016

Top News:

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

BuzzFeed didn't cut its 2016 forecast in half, says BuzzFeed chair Ken Lerer — BuzzFeed's doing fine. So is the digital media business. Everything's going to be great, as long as you understand that everything is changing. — That's the message from BuzzFeed chairman Ken Lerer …

Discussion: Financial Times, Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, @ajsharp and @mikeisaac

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 …

William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:

Staff voice displeasure as Dauman's stategic miscalculations and Viacom's dysfunction trickle down to affect invididual businesses, from MTV to Paramount — Inside the Viacom “Brain Drain” — As an ailing Sumner Redstone remains out of sight, Viacom's “creatives” are voicing their displeasure …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Fortune, @rickbrookswsj and @keachhagey

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

Discussion: The Wrap, @bruceorwall, Wall Street Journal, @miriamgottfried and @benfritz

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 …

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Says Users Show Preference For Instant Articles Over Mobile Web Articles

Discussion: SocialTimes, @rafat, Facebook Media, @bmorrissey, The Next Web, PR Newswire, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code, Nieman Lab, @newsmary and @digiday

Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Facebook makes its Live API publicly available, allows streaming directly to Facebook from non-mobile devices like drones, TV broadcast feeds

Discussion: Nieman Lab, Facebook Media, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Tech Times, Forbes, Digiday, TechSpot, SocialTimes, ARC, SiliconANGLE, Facebook Code, The Verge, ZDNet, @johncolucci, TechCrunch, Facebook Media, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Variety, The Verge, Business Insider, Softpedia News, @joshm and @jank0

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

How BuzzFeed, BBC, Fusion, The Daily Beast, HBR, and The Huffington Post are using Facebook Live, and the challenges they face — Live, local, late breaking: On Facebook Live, news outlets take a cue from TV (but don't call it TV) — Around 5 p.m. on April 1, everyone in our little office crowded around …

Discussion: MediaShift, Variety, Re/code and Gizmodo UK

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Mediaite, @joanwalsh, @plfino, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @magiciansbook, @rafat, @rafat, @kelseymsutton, @eliasisquith and @kelseymsutton

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 …

Discussion: @nbj914, @nicknotned, @editorialiste, @andrewrgoldman, @stuartemmrichny, Independed Women's Forum and @petersterne

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Journalistic ethics questioned ahead of Gay Talese's 35-year work The Voyeur's Motel 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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, @adrianchen, @peterwsinger, The Stranger …, @jillfilipovic, @julietwaters, @jillfilipovic, @kweintraub, @moniqueschafter, @sreddi_515 and Slate

Nick Statt / The Verge:

Amazon launches Kindle Oasis for $290, with a leather case increasing battery life to 20 months standby time, available for pre-order today, ships April 27th — Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made — Amazon's philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent …

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, Publishers Weekly, GalleyCat, VentureBeat, Guardian, Amazon.com, Fast Company, TIME, TIME, CNBC, CNET, USA Today, Telegraph, BBC, Wired, New York Times, Re/code, SlashGear, Gizmodo, mirror, Engadget, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and GeekWire

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Editor of London-based political blog risks fine and jail by breaching injunction and naming threesome celebrity — A political blogger is facing the prospect of a fine and possible imprisonment after naming the celebrity who has an injunction banning reporting of his involvement in an extra-marital sexual threesome.

Discussion: The Independent, Press Association, Telegraph, Metro.co.uk, New Zealand Herald, The Huffington Post, Telegraph, Financial Times, Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand Herald, @tjmcintyre, Guardian, Guido Fawkes and Press Association

Wall Street Journal:

Twitter struggles to delete ISIS accounts, removing 26K suspected accounts in March while ISIS supporters created 21K — Twitter and Islamic State Deadlock on Social Media Battlefield — The terror group's online footprint has shrunk in crackdown aided by global hackers …

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya to join “Vice on HBO” — Ravi Somaiya to leave The New York Times media desk — Ravi Somaiya, a media reporter for The New York Times, is leaving the newspaper to join the newsmagazine “Vice on HBO,” it was announced today.

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:55 AM ET, April 13, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Who's Hiring in Media?

Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — Reuters

Energy Markets Reporter, London — WSJ

Oil Reporter, Singapore — Bloomberg

Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — AP

Business Reporter, SC — Post & Courier

State Government Reporter, WA — Seattle Times

Climate Crisis Columnist — Prospect UK

Multimedia Journalist, CA — Paramount

Community Engagement Mgr., DC — Freedom Forum

Staff Writer - Business, NY — WIRED

Editor, MA — Nieman Reports

Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — Toronto Star

Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — Newcomer

Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — Star Tribune

Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — The Verge

News Reporter, MA — Berkshire Eagle

Managing Editor, WA — Everett Herald

Private Credit Reporter, NY — Debtwire

Legislative Reporter, CA — Sacramento Bee

Reporter, PA — Tribune-Review

Visual Editor, Remote — Rest of World

Staff Writer, MI — Watershed Voice

California Playbook Writer, CA — Politico

Senior Media Editor — Digiday

National Investigative Reporter, NY — HuffPost

Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — Las Vegas Sun

Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — Island Packet

Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — CT Mirror

Coordinating Editor, OR — OPB

Staff Reporter, CA — Daily Kos

Editor-in-Chief, AZ — Phoenix New Times

Add your company here

See Also:

Mediagazer: site main

Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer

Mediagazer Mobile: for phones

Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources

Subscribe:

Mediagazer RSS feed

Mediagazer on X

Mediagazer on Mastodon

More News:

Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Arizona lawmaker drops ban on journalists who refuse checks

Discussion: Associated Press and TucsonSentinel.com

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom approves London Live's request to reduce peak-time local broadcasts to one hour per day

Agence France-Presse:
China helps boost global movie earnings to record $38bn

Discussion: The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety and The Wrap

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Luke Timmerman explains how he built his subscriber-funded biotech news site, Timmerman Report, and describes the advantages and disadvantages of the solo model

Discussion: @poynter and @rafat

Earlier Picks:

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

Discussion: Mediaite, Ad Age, Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, Variety, SI.com and Bloomberg

Peter Kafka / Re/code:
E.W. Scripps buys Demand Media's high-performing humor site Cracked for $39M as part of digital expansion

Discussion: Cincinnati.com, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, Tubefilter, VideoInk, NetNewsCheck Latest, Ad Age, Business Wire, Multichannel News, Mashable, @jack_obrien, Broadcasting & Cable, @harrymccracken, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Variety

Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The New Yorker launches The New Yorker Today, an iPhone app just for its online articles and 8,000 cartoons, free to use for its first month

Discussion: New Yorker, bookforum.com, Poynter, Talking New Media, FishbowlNY, @tnynews, @newyorker, @carlahblumen, @sansip, @benmullin, @newyorker, @jeremy_keehn and @amandalcormier

From Techmeme:

Bloomberg:
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more

CNN:
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage

Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task

Sister Sites:

Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web

memeorandum
What US political commentators are discussing online right now

WeSmirch
The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page