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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 Press Office:
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.
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Melania Trump says journalist Julia Ioffe provoked the antisemitic abuse from Trump fans with the GQ profile of Melania — In an interview with Du Jour magazine released Tuesday, Melania Trump took an indifferent approach to the anti-Semitic abuse suffered by journalist Julia Ioffe …
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sources: iTunes 12.4, released on Monday, addresses widely reported music deletion issue — Apple rolled out a new version of iTunes this week which introduced an updated design, including modified navigation and the return of the left sidebar. However, under the hood …
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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 …
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Nick Stockton / Wired:
EurekaAlert, a centralized hub for science press releases operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, turns 20 this week — Scientists discover a new planet that might be able to support life. A drug that targets certain cancer receptors. Evidence of a previously unknown branch of human ancestors.
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