The plans were unveiled by Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships who was speaking at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York on Tuesday, The Street reported. Earlier this year, British news organisation The Guardian pulled out of Facebook’s Instant Articles program and Apple News, citing editorial and commercial reasons. “We have run extensive trials on Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News to assess how they fit with our editorial and commercial objectives. Having evaluated these trials, we have decided to stop publishing in those formats on both platforms,” read a statement from The Guardian. The New York Times has also pulled out of Instant Articles, while a number of other US based news organisations including Washington Post and LA Times have installed paywalls on their sites and limited the number of articles people can read for read.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 19, 2017 04:07 UTC