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10:00 AM ET, April 13, 2016

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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook announces Rights Manager to help video creators combat freebooting; content owners can apply for access beginning today
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
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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
Discussion: The Wrap
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
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom approves London Live's request to reduce peak-time local broadcasts to one hour per day
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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
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Online publishers are increasingly hiring e-commerce editors to boost profits; Gawker says commerce, along with native ads, account for one third of its revenue
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind
 
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