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Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:
The Path to a Successful Incentive Auction — Since my arrival at the Commission a month ago, I have spent more time working on the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction than any other single issue. I am confident in the Commission's ability to make the appropriate policy decisions.
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Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, The Switch, TheHill, Variety and AllThingsD
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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Delays Spectrum Auction Until 2015 — Auction Intended to Encourage TV Stations to Sell Airwaves to Wireless Carriers — WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it has delayed a planned reverse auction of TV airwaves until 2015, a decision that reflects …
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015
Discussion:
Wireless Week, Reuters and Bloomberg
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Interview with Facebook News Feed Manager Over Content Changes — In 2011, Google changed the way it ranked websites, in an effort to punish spammers and “content farms” that showed up high in search results but delivered crummy pages. — Google's “Panda” changes had giant ripple effects throughout …
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@pkafka, @urrutiadelpozo, @mattcutts, @rlux, The Verge, @sree, @myurow, WebProNews, @jakeswearingen, Digits, @mathewi and @caseynewton
Matthew Lynch / Capital New York:
Gawker's Zimmerman gets his own corner — Gawker's editors are cooking up a plan to give Neetzan Zimmerman, Gawker's in-house savant of viral material, his own subvertical on the site. And when he does, his editor, John Cook, knows what he would like to name it.
Discussion:
Media & Entertainment, The Huffington Post, @fmanjoo, @carr2n, @jaredbkeller, FishbowlNY, @mathewi and Variety
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Yes, the Vikings should have gone for it on 4th down, and a New York Times robot knows why — Second-guessing a play call is one of the great joys of being a football fan. Because you know — sitting there on the couch, never having played a single minute of professional football …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Online survey of female journalists and sexual harassment shows self-selection bias problem — How Not to Measure Sexual Harassment — Slate has an article up today with a provocative headline: “Most Female Journalists Have Been Threatened, Assaulted, or Harassed at Work. Here's Why We Don't Talk About It.”
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Slate
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Credulous press for a report on abuse of female journalists
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@cjr
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable's Next CEO Ready to Sell If Price Is Right — Rob Marcus has a message for Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) shareholders: I'm the right guy to decide whether to sell the company. — The 48-year-old chief operating officer is replacing Glenn Britt as Time Warner Cable's chief executive officer …
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Radio & Television …, Variety, @bloombergtech and Los Angeles Times
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Ryan Glasspiegel / JimRomenesko.com:
Charles Davis: VICE let me call out the hypocrisy of liberal media when no one else would — By RYAN GLASSPIEGEL — Earlier this week, Charles Davis wrote a piece for VICE in which he shamed left-wing media outlets for failing to live up to their stated ideals in their practices of exploiting unpaid and poorly paid interns.
Discussion:
@romenesko, Thanks:@sportsrapport
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News pushes into mobile with new redesign — For many people, Google News is the page of choice for a quick sweep of the headlines. Today, with an eye towards the increasing number of readers coming to Google News on mobile devices, Google released a new look for the more than 10 year old site.
Discussion:
Google News Blog and Poynter
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News UK is reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face — News UK may only be a change of name from News International but the whole “feel” of the organisation is somehow different. — Perhaps it's the digital age that has transformed the outfit from rugged to smooth, from frantic to measured, from wayward to way to go.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Sun attracts 117,000 paying subscribers to its Sun+ digital service
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Reuters and @marksweney
Upworthy Insider:
What Actually Makes Things Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind. (Hint: It's Not Headlines Like This.) — By now it's fairly well known that we care a lot about headlines here at Upworthy. We write at least 25 of them for each post. We test them rigorously. Sometimes, we even make up a word to catch your eye.
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PandoDaily, @niemanlab, @mjenkins, The Kernel, @pieratt, Kirk LaPointe's …, @pkafka, @newswhip, @davidbauer, @clarajeffery and @malexjohnson, Thanks:@joshluger
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
The World's Most Controversial Viral Site Posted A Great Defense Of Itself
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@hblodget
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
AOL editor-in-chief to exit — More turmoil seems to be engulfing AOL. — The latest is that AOL editor in chief Cyndi Stivers is said to be exiting. She only joined in May. — One source said it is a “slow fire” which suggests it won't go public until next year.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
RADAR:
Victory For Gwyneth Paltrow! ‘Vanity Fair’ Takedown Piece Turns ‘Soft’ — Can Gwyneth Paltrow claim victory over Vanity Fair? — RadarOnline.com has learned that the famed magazine, which had planned a scathing take-down piece on the actress, is making it much softer.
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Daily Mail, VH1 Celebrity, Newser and Latest Design Trends …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Billionaire Mansueto is said to have interest in Forbes Media — Joe Mansueto, the mutli-billionaire founder of mutual-fund researcher Morningstar, is rumored to be looking at Forbes Media. — Reached via email, he declined to comment on Forbes. — He's no stranger to the publication …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and @iwantmedia
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
Advance Publications considers consolidation of New Jersey newspapers — Owners of Star-Ledger, NJ.com and sister newspapers studying possible consolidations — star-ledger-building-unions- closure.JPG — Advance Publications, owner of The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, is studying making changes …
Discussion:
Poynter and Talking New Media
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter: CNN's offer was ‘Irresistible’ — “I would not leave the Times for a television job” doesn't occupy the same pantheon as “Read my lips, no new taxes” or “I never had sex with that woman,” but it still presents a bit of sticky wicket for Brian Stelter, who debuts Sunday as host of CNN's ‘Reliable Sources.’
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10,000 Words and FishbowlNY
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