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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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
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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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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 …
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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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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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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