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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 …
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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.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, AllThingsD, TheHill and Variety
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015 — Few are unlikely to fault new Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for deciding to delay the planned auction of wireless spectrum voluntarily relinquished by TV broadcasters until the middle of 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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WebProNews, @mattcutts, @sree, @pkafka, @urrutiadelpozo, @rlux, The Verge, @myurow, @jakeswearingen, Digits, @mathewi and @caseynewton
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 …
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:
@fmanjoo, @carr2n, @jaredbkeller, @mathewi and FishbowlNY
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 …
Discussion:
Radio & Television …, Variety, Los Angeles Times and @bloombergtech
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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
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, @newswhip, Kirk LaPointe's …, @pkafka, @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
Discussion:
@hblodget
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
Discussion:
Reuters and @marksweney
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
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
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
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.’
Discussion:
10,000 Words and FishbowlNY
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
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.
Discussion:
Latest Design Trends …, Newser, Daily Mail and VH1 Celebrity
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
When White House Photos Are ‘Visual Press Releases’ — For Doug Mills - the longtime White House photographer for The Times - what happened on Veterans Day was more than annoying. It was wrong. — He and other Washington journalists had been hearing that the oldest World War II veteran alive …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @jswatz, @onekade, @sulliview, @geneweingarten and @ron_fournier
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America launches on Time Warner Cable today — Al Jazeera America is launching today on Time Warner Cable systems, the two companies announced this morning. — The deal will expand AJAM's distribution significantly, with TWC having around 11 million subscribers …
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Capital New York, TVNewser, The Verge and Variety
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