Mediagazer: With Knight funding, Solutions Journalism Network wants to grow reporting on positive results in health reporting (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

5:50 PM ET, January 14, 2014

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules, agency may appeal — An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday ruled that the FCC's “net neutrality” rules, which prevent companies like Verizon from favoring some types of internet traffic over others, are invalid.

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

What you need to know about the court decision that just struck down net neutrality — The principle behind the phrase “net neutrality” is that internet service providers of all kinds should treat data flowing over the open internet equally, without giving preferential treatment to data from one provider or platform.

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Brent Kendall / Digits:
Net Neutrality Ruling: What the Key Passages Mean

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Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:

Oyster, a Start-Up for E-Reading, Raises $14 Million — With Netflix soaring, investors are betting that a start-up based on the same business model — but for e-books — will succeed as well. — Oyster, which gives customers access to more than 100,000 books for $10 a month, has raised $14 million in a new round of financing.

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Howard Kurtz Lied About Business Ties To Fox News Contributor — Fox News anchor Howard Kurtz has repeatedly claimed, most famously during a live interrogation on CNN, that his relationship with Fox News contributor Lauren Ashburn amounted to a “limited venture” for which the MediaBuzz host …

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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Study shows decline in news quality at Times-Picayune since shift to digital, cut in print schedule — Tracking digital-era news quality declines — A Tulane student project tracks the Times-Picayune before and after a digital overhaul — When the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced …

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Skimping on Fees and Avoiding Journalists: Are Publishers Doing Native on the Cheap? — From publishers to creative agencies to writer networks, many seem to be making money from native advertising. But one group that doesn't always share equally in the booty is journalists.

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Michael Berkens / TheDomains.com:

Chicago Sun-Times to test Bitcoin and Twitter paywall with startup BitWall — The Chicago Sun-Times, the 9th largest newspaper in the USA, is testing a social paywall that will accept both Tweets and Bitcoin in partnership with the content monetization startup BitWall.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

With Knight funding, Solutions Journalism Network wants to grow reporting on positive results in health reporting — The Solutions Journalism Network wants to help newsrooms change how they report on problems in the community. As its name would imply, it wants to outlets find ways to report on solutions …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Knight Foundation, Poynter, @jsb and The Clinton Foundation

Emma McGarthy / Press Gazette:

Boston Globe's Jeff Moriarty joins UK's Johnston Press as chief digital and product officer — Johnston Press appoints new chief digital and product officer — Johnston Press has today announced the appointment of American born Jeff Moriarty as chief digital and product officer.

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Jason Deans / Guardian:

BBC news chief: problems facing local newspapers ‘not our fault’ — James Harding responds to calls for BBC to rein in coverage, telling press to focus on web rivals such as Google or Facebook — James Harding, the BBC News director, believes the corporation has an obligation to deliver local news …

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Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:

AP's Carvin: News Battle Near For Twitter, FB — Twitter and Facebook are setting themselves up for a battle for news supremacy among social media networks. Twitter, though, holds the upper hand, according to Eric Carvin, social media editor at the Associated Press.

Discussion: Capital New York, @marksluckie, @bbccollege and @columbiajourn

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Company — Returning from the brink of death, music services Winamp and Shoutcast are now officially with a new owner: Digital audio business Radionomy has acquired the both media player and radio platform from AOL.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post, Politico Editors To Meet After Bombshell Mike Allen Reports — NEW YORK — Politico editor-in-chief John Harris and chief executive Jim VandeHei are expected to visit The Washington Post on Wednesday to discuss the paper's recent scrutiny of chief White House correspondent Mike Allen …

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Snowden to Join Board of Press Freedom Foundation — Washington — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor whose leaks of secret documents set off a national and global debate about government spying, is joining the board of a nonprofit organization co-founded by Daniel Ellsberg …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Digital Dealmaker Zander Lurie Leaves Guggenheim — Zander Lurie, one of the executives who joined Guggenheim Digital Media last year to help the new company kick off an acquisition spree, has left. — Lurie, formerly a top executive at CBS, joined Guggenheim last February …

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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Charter touts benefits of offer for Time Warner Cable — (Reuters) - Charter Communications expects annual synergies of $500 million and other benefits such as tax savings from its proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, the company said in an investor presentation posted on its website Tuesday.

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Financial Times launches Samsung Smart TV app — Financial Times videos are now available via an application to televisions viewers who have a Samsung Smart TV. — The app shows the latest FT video, including analysis and coverage of stories and issues in politics, business and finance.

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Reuters:

Deezer in talks with Samsung, Dailymotion with Microsoft - paper — (Reuters) - French online music group Deezer is studying a commercial and industrial agreement with Korean electronics group Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which might also take a stake in its capital, a French weekly said.

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Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Infographic-on-Demand Site Visually Gets $8.1 Million More — Visually, an online market for infographics and other visual content, has raised $8.1 million in Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital, a round that had been previously partially disclosed. The company says it has 100,000 creatives …

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