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6:45 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 Foundation, Columbia University launch First Amendment Institute, a $60M project to help in legal fights over online privacy and free speech  —  Photo of Columbia University by Flickr user InSapphoWeTrust used under a Creative Commons license  —  The Knight Foundation …
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.
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
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Sci-Hub, The Repository Of ‘Infringing’ Academic Papers Now Available Via Telegram  —  We've been covering the saga of Sci-Hub for a while now.  It's the search engine for academic papers that includes a few tricks to access more paywalled academic papers for free, using the academic logins …
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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 …
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.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Monocle's radio station, Monocle 24, now has 1M monthly listeners, 80% of whom listen via downloads  —  While many print publications are ramping up their podcast output, Monocle magazine went beyond and launched its own 24-hour digital radio station in 2011.
Discussion: RAIN News
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
North Carolina local news and lifestyle startup Charlotte Agenda expanding to Raleigh, starting July 1  —  More than a year after launching in North Carolina's largest city, the local news startup Charlotte Agenda said Tuesday that it's expanding into the state's next biggest market — Raleigh.
Discussion: @derrickminor and Charlotte Agenda
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
Nic Healey / CNET:
YouTube Red and YouTube Music launch today in Australia and New Zealand for AU$11.99 a month, with special offer of AU$9.99 until July 6  —  After launching in the US last year, Australia and New Zealand are getting their crack at YouTube's music app and ad-free subscription service.
 
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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