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11:05 AM 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.
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 …
Discussion: Guardian and Newsweek
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: @markamesexiled
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 …
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.
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 …
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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
 
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Financial Times takes iterative approach to redesigning its site, shows the new version, NextFT, to 15% of users
Agence France-Presse:
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