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1:35 PM ET, May 17, 2016

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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.
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BBC plans to close or scale down websites and apps, including Food, News Magazine, Travel, and local news index for £15M savings  —  The BBC's online activities will focus on six flagship areas after a review to ensure they remain high quality and distinctive.
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Knight, Columbia commit $60 million to launch digital-era First Amendment center  —  Photo of Columbia University by Flickr user InSapphoWeTrust used under a Creative Commons license  —  The Knight Foundation and Columbia University today announced the creation of new center that will use research …
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 …
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Ukrainian hacker admits stealing 150K press releases from newswire services to help criminal network make $30M from insider trading  —  Hacker, 28, broke into network after stealing user credentials  —  First hacker convicted in conspiracy to steal 150,000 releases
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent debuts Live multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV, comes to mobile and OS X in June  —  BitTorrent today launched BitTorrent Live, a multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV.  Think of it as the company's take on live TV, with initial coverage spanning five areas: news, sports, music, tech, and youth culture.
Mariah Stewart / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Arrested In Ferguson Barred From Talking About Settlement  —  Police will undergo training on media access and the right to record police under the agreement.  —  HuffPost's Ferguson Fellow  —  ST. LOUIS - Four journalists have settled a lawsuit against the St. Louis County Police Department …
Discussion: @wesleylowery and @markamesexiled
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 …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound  —  Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence.  —  As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers.
 
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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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Financial Times takes iterative approach to redesigning its site, shows the new version, NextFT, to 15% of users
Agence France-Presse:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube face hate-speech lawsuits filed by two French anti-racism groups
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
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Interview with Obama freezes up on Facebook Live; BuzzFeed redirects viewers to YouTube
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
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
As part of advertising campaign for TV show Preacher, AMC releases first five minutes of new series on Snapchat
Discussion: Polygon
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
Discussion: Facebook and MediaNama