Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:25 AM ET, May 17, 2016

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
BBC plans to close Food website, but will keep archive of 11K existing recipes online  —  Thousands of food recipes the BBC said would be removed from its website will in fact be archived - and still available to look at online.
RELATED:
BBC Press Office:
BBC plans to close or scale down websites and apps, including Food, News Magazine, Travel, and local news index  —  The BBC's online activities will focus on six flagship areas after a review to ensure they remain high quality and distinctive.  —  The review was launched last autumn and led …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Source: Twitter will stop counting photos and links in the 140-character limit as soon as within next two weeks  —  Company said to make the change in next couple of weeks  —  CEO Jack Dorsey aims to make it easier to compose tweets  —  Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links …
Tyler Falk / Current:
Indiana station to cut ‘This American Life’ in response to Pandora deal  —  WBAA in West Lafayette, Ind., will discontinue broadcasts of This American Life in part because of the show's partnership with Pandora, the station's general manager wrote in a LinkedIn post Thursday.
Itay Hod / The Wrap:
Los Angeles Times music critic Sasha Frere-Jones resigns after less than a year; sources point to expense account bill from strip club, ethics, productivity  —  Acclaimed music and culture writer Sasha Frere-Jones has abruptly exited the L.A. Times after less than a year amid allegations …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Debra Lee, chairman and CEO of Viacom's Black Entertainment Television, joins Twitter's board  —  Debra Lee, who has been CEO of Viacom's Black Entertainment Television (BET) since 2005 and its chairman since 2006, has joined the board of Twitter.  She tweeted out the news earlier today.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Intercept broadens access to reviewed and redacted NSA documents obtained by Snowden and will share archives with Le Monde and other outlets  —  From the time we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill …
David McCabe / The Hill:
Senior Trump aide Barry Bennett to represent the candidate at Mark Zuckerberg's meeting this Wednesday to discuss claims of Facebook bias  —  A senior aide to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  's campaign team will attend a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
RELATED:
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Ex-RedState blogger Erick Erickson says Facebook is more accepting of conservatives than Twitter, says Facebook drives significant traffic to his new site
Discussion: The Hill and The Resurgent
Agence France-Presse:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube face hate-speech lawsuits filed by two French anti-racism groups  —  French groups file suit against Twitter over racism, homophobia - Yahoo New Zealand  —  Paris (AFP) - Two French groups say they have filed a suit against Twitter, YouTube and Facebook …
April Glaser / Wired:
As a lawsuit challenges the legality of PACER fees for federal court documents, records appear to show the database made close to a 500% profit in 2014  —  According to the Constitution, the law is by, of, and for the people.  Congress makes laws, the president enforces them, the courts interpret them.
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Interview with Obama freezes up on Facebook Live; BuzzFeed redirects viewers to YouTube  —  Barack Obama, BuzzFeed and Facebook — It was supposed to be a high-profile showcase for new journalism from new technology with the new-media President.  —  Instead it became the most high-profile example yet …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's video ads now available on third-party sites like Daily Mail and Mashable via Facebook Audience Network, can now appear on both desktop and mobile  —  Move ratchets up competition with rival Google and other online ad players  —  Facebook is now selling video ads on behalf of other companies …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 8:25 AM ET, May 17, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 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: 
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Financial Times takes iterative approach to redesigning its site, shows the new version, NextFT, to 15% of users
Teresa Mioli / Journalism in the Americas:
Manuel Torres González, editor in chief of Noticias MT, shot and killed in Veracruz, the sixth journalist killed this year in Mexico
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Supreme Court will rule Thursday on whether or not it will lift privacy injunction banning identification of man in celeb threesome story
 Earlier Picks: 
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Ex-Charbeat CTO Alan Beaufour appointed SVP of engineering at the New York Times
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
The Undefeated, ESPN-owned site covering race and culture, to launch Tuesday
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
Sources: BBC working on subscription streaming service to rival Netflix, dubbed Britflix, delivered via iPlayer; ITV and NBC Universal are involved
 

 
From Techmeme:

Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data

 
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