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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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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC considers merging BBC News and BBC World News into one 24-hour news channel for UK and overseas viewers in cost-cutting effort — Corporation aims to cut costs by replacing BBC News and BBC World News with new channel for UK and overseas viewers — The BBC is considering a new 24-hour channel …
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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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