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News Veteran Warns Publishers About Friending Facebook

As David Carr recently reported, Facebook is hoping to host publishers’ pages on its own serves so they would load more quickly for mobile users. Ryan Chittum, for one, thinks publishers would be wise to avoid such a scenario. “This is a deal that publishers, who are already too dependent on the social network, should turn down flat,” the veteran newsman writes in Columbia Journalism Review. “It’s hard to do a better job of servicing readers when you don’t know how to service them, much less when your readers don’t have control over their experience.”
 

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