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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.
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Gigaom, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television …, CNET, Deadline.com, The Switch, The Verge, Variety, TheHill and AllThingsD
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015
FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015
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Reuters, Bloomberg and Wireless Week
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elsevier Continues Its Efforts To Stifle The Sharing Of Knowledge To Pump Up Its Own Profits — In the academic publishing world, I'm not sure if there's any company quite as hated as Elsevier. You may recall the big campaign by academics to boycott Elsevier over its opposition to rules …
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture …, @hylopsar, @rmounce, @openscience, @bioinfocus, @lambo, @glynmoody, @kevincarson1 and @macloo
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Jennifer Howard / Wired Campus:
Elsevier forces Academia.edu to take down research papers shared by their authors — Posting Your Latest Article? You Might Have to Take It Down — Guy Leonard received an unpleasant surprise in his inbox early this morning: a notice from Academia.edu saying it had taken down a copy …
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VentureBeat, @thesiswhisperer, @nowviskie and @jmarkockerbloom
Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:
Behind the FCC's Intervention in a $985 Million Local TV Deal — The TV business has been on a furious consolidation drive this year, with billions of dollars worth of mergers and acquisitions snapping up the companies that bring broadcast TV to local markets across the country. But a letter from
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Asks Sinclair to Revise Plans to Use ‘Sidecar’ Companies
FCC Asks Sinclair to Revise Plans to Use ‘Sidecar’ Companies
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TVNewsCheck.com
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Credulous press for a report on abuse of female journalists — Reporters overlook statistical problems in passing on eye-popping numbers — Rule of thumb, journalists: If the “study” you're writing about is based on a SurveyMonkey.com survey, it probably deserves a wee bit of skepticism.
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@cjr
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Online survey of female journalists and sexual harassment shows self-selection bias problem
Online survey of female journalists and sexual harassment shows self-selection bias problem
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Slate
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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@acoyne, @pkafka, @mattcutts, @rlux, The Verge, @sree, WebProNews, Digits, @247ls, @myurow, @urrutiadelpozo, @jakeswearingen, @caseynewton, @mathewi and Digital Spy
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 …
Discussion:
Gigaom and @niemanlab
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Meaning of China's Crackdown on the Foreign Press — The Chinese government is threatening to expel nearly two dozen foreign correspondents, working for the Times and Bloomberg News, in retaliation for investigations that exposed the private wealth of Chinese leaders.
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@comradewong, @jwassers, GlobalPost, @lpolgreen, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, The Huffington Post, Politico, Forbes and Washington Post
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.
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@romenesko, Thanks:@sportsrapport
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.
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Media & Entertainment, @fmanjoo, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, Variety, @carr2n, @jaredbkeller and @mathewi
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYPD stops giving journalists crime reports at precincts — The New York City Police Department has decided to “restrict journalists' access to the forms detailing crime reports in every New York City precinct,” Amanda Woods writes. … “The NYPD's public information office, known as DCPI …
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DNAinfo.com New York, The Nabe, Hit & Run and New York Magazine
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.
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Google News Blog and Poynter
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 …
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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VH1 Celebrity, Newser, Daily Mail and Latest Design Trends …
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
The Sun attracts 117,000 paying subscribers to its Sun+ digital service
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Reuters and @marksweney
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Media Rights Capital in Talks to Sell Stake to Guggenheim Partners (Exclusive) — The “House of Cards” and “Ted” producer would partner with the investor in Dick Clark Productions and the Los Angeles Dodgers. — Media Rights Capital, the prolific film and TV studio behind Netflix's House …