Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Washington Post Launches Instant Articles on Facebook - The Washington Post

Also see The Washington Post and Facebook: Smart strategy or deal with the devil? (Fortune) and, for a bigger-picture perspective on the future of journalism, Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing (Zeynep Tufekci on Medium)

"The Washington Post today became the first new partner to launch on Facebook’s Instant Articles platform. The Post will send 100% of its stories to Facebook so that all Washington Post content can be formatted as Instant Articles, giving readers a lightning-fast user experience for reading, sharing and commenting within the Facebook iOS app.

“We want to reach current and future readers on all platforms, and we aren’t holding anything back,” said Fred Ryan, publisher, The Washington Post. “Launching Instant Articles on Facebook enables to give this extremely large audience a faster, more seamless news reading experience.”"
The Washington Post Launches Instant Articles on Facebook - The Washington Post

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