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8:15 AM ET, April 13, 2016

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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 …
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 …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook announces Rights Manager to help video creators combat freebooting; content owners can apply for access beginning today
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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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: @ajsharp and @mikeisaac
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 …
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
Discussion: The Wrap and Vanity Fair
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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
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.
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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ofcom approves London Live's request to reduce peak-time local broadcasts to one hour per day  —  London Live gets green light to reduce new peak-time local shows  —  Broadcasting regulator accepts request from Evgeny Lebedev station to change definition of ‘first-run’ programmes to include shows not aired on channel before
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.
 
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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
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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
Discussion: @rafat
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Louis C.K. Says Web Series ‘Horace and Pete’ Has Left Him “Millions of Dollars in Debt”
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
BuzzFeed seeks dismissal of defamation lawsuit brought by British journalist Michael Leidig and news service he founded, Central European News