Mediagazer: Three P's to Protect Free Speech for Student Media (Erica Salkin/Mediashift)

6:45 AM ET, February 11, 2014

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Alistair Barr / USA Today:

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The Only People Harassing the Gays of Sochi are the Foreign Journalists — Sochi has one gay club. It is called Mayak, or “light house,” and it is located behind an unmarked door right off one of the city's lush parks. You have to buzz to be let in. — Once you're in, though …

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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters:

Barnes & Noble shares rise on news of job cuts among Nook staff — (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) shares rose by as much as 9.6 percent on Monday after news that the bookseller cut jobs from its team of hardware engineers working on its money-losing Nook digital books and e-reader business.

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Hardware Engineering Staff

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Joel Mathis / Philadelphia Magazine:

Can Philly Newspapers Be Saved? — Writer Steve Volk is a longtime observer of the Philadelphia media scene — so he brings a substantial foundation to this month's Philly Mag print story that takes readers inside the furious battle for control of the city's two major daily newspapers.

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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Netflix ISP rankings show Verizon and Comcast speeds falling — Netflix updated its list of ISP rankings Monday, and the online video provider shows that Comcast and Verizon are continuing to fall in its custom rankings. That's possibly because of peering practices put in place by those ISP's …

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Erica Salkin / Mediashift:

Three P's to Protect Free Speech for Student Media … It's a little bit of a man-bites-dog scenario — public high school administrators force a student newspaper to print what the students consider a racial slur. — The Playwickian, a student paper at Neshaminy High School in Langhorne …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Capital NY Tweaks Prices Ahead of Paywall — Capital New York has tweaked its pricing as it prepares to start charging for e-newsletters and news coverage today (Feb. 11), making it the latest startup to test consumers' willingness pay for news. — The experiment will no doubt be closely watched …

Megan Levy / Sydney Morning Herald:

David Koch criticises Channel Seven for paying for Schapelle Corby interview — Follow Megan on Twitter Follow Megan on Google+ Email Megan — Sunrise co-host David Koch hits out at his employer, the Seven Network, for securing a paid interview with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.

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George Packer / New Yorker:

Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books? — Amazon is a global superstore, like Walmart. It's also a hardware manufacturer, like Apple, and a utility, like Con Edison, and a video distributor, like Netflix, and a book publisher, like Random House, and a production studio …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
The Time That Jeff Bezos Had Henry Blodget Explain the Web to the Washington Post

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Angela Doland / AdAge:

IAB Launches China Chapter to Build Industry Standards — The Interactive Advertising Bureau is adding China to the global IAB network. The new group will help build industry standards in the country with the world's biggest online population 618 million.

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Alexis Kleinman / The Huffington Post:

Feb. 11 Is ‘The Day We Fight Back’ Against NSA Surveillance — More than 5,300 web-based companies and other organizations, including Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Mozilla the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, have joined forces to protest National Security Agency surveillance on Feb. 11.

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AFP:

Egypt trial for Jazeera journalists set for Feb 20 — Cairo — Al-Jazeera journalists accused of backing Egypt's blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood are to go on trial on February 20, judicial sources said on Monday. Since president Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the military in July …

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