Report: Facebook Working With News Publications to Offer App-Based "Facebook Editions"

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Facebook has been successfully pushing the Like button and other features to media companies in recent years. But now it is busy working on a special project with around a dozen major news outlets to create “Facebook editions” of their publications within its home site, Forbes reports.

The report describes these new Facebook editions as “basically, app versions of [the publications] that can be read and consumed right there on Facebook.” The publications said to be working on the project include CNN, the Washington Post and The Daily.

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