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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose letting broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment — FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules — Proposal Would Allow Broadband Providers to Charge Content Companies for Consumer Access — WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission plans …
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Tim Wu / The New Yorker Blog:
Barack Obama's Flip-Flop and the End of Net Neutrality — In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality. Specifically, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate net neutrality as the law of the land?
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
FCC chairman says reports of net neutrality's death are ‘flat out wrong’ — Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission will propose new net neutrality rules that will reportedly destroy the concept of net neutrality as we know it, making it okay for internet service providers to establish a so-called …
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Gigaom, The Week, @kwerb, @rsingel, @ammori, @om, TechCrunch and Joho the Blog
Sam Gustin / TIME:
Net Neutrality Advocates Angered by FCC's Planned New Rules — Open Internet advocates are calling foul on new rules that would allow broadband companies to strike special deals for preferential treatment — The Federal Communications Commission plans to propose new rules …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Felix Salmon to Take on Web-Based Role at Fusion — Felix Salmon, a prominent writer on finance and other topics who announced this week that he was leaving Reuters, will join the cable network Fusion on Monday in a web-based role that runs across multiple media.
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Felix Salmon / Medium:
Salmon: Fusion offers chance to experiment with digital storytelling wherever audience may be — Why I'm joining Fusion — I'm leaving Reuters and joining Fusion. Which I'm sure was not at the top of anybody's list of the most likely places for me to go.
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The New York Times Company:
NYT reports 2.6% increase in revenue, digital advertising revenue up 2.2% to $37.8M — The New York Times Company Reports 2014 First-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced today first-quarter 2014 diluted earnings per share …
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Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable profit rises 19.5 pct — (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, posted a 19.5 percent rise in quarterly profit as its residential subscriber trends improved through the quarter. — Net income attributable to common shareholders rose to $479 million …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Spent $62 Million in Q1 Prepping for Comcast Merger
Time Warner Cable Spent $62 Million in Q1 Prepping for Comcast Merger
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Bloomberg:
Forbes Sale Said to Founder With Axel Springer Not Bidding — Forbes Media LLC's effort to find a buyer is running into trouble, with one potential bidder officially out of the running and two others no longer in active talks, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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John Herrman / The Awl:
In Defense of Explaining Things — For websites meant to help us understand things, the new Explainer Sites—Vox, FiveThirtyEight, et al—are awfully disorienting. We stare them in the face and we cannot quite describe what we are looking at. Are they publications? Some sort of health food?
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Columbia student paper plans to drop daily print edition — The Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper distributed daily at Columbia University and in surrounding Morningside Heights, plans to switch to a weekly edition starting in the fall, editor-in-chief Abby Abrams told staff earlier this evening.
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College Media Matters, @jimmyvielkind and @miriamkrule
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Bloomberg hires former Vanity Fair digital editor, Chris Rovzar, to build luxury content — Bloomberg to Build Luxury Online — Bloomberg News is making a heavy push with its luxury coverage, and it's starting with digital. — According to an internal memo obtained by WWD, Chris Rovzar …
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@womensweardaily, @rovzar, @lavorgna and MediaWire Daily
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
WaPo's Executive Editor Marty Baron and Publisher Katharine Weymouth talk about digital focus after Bezos purchase — Rieder: The resurgent ‘Washington Post’ — What a difference a billionaire makes. — It wasn't that long ago that The Washington Post was reeling, shedding staff and trimming ambitions as ad revenue plummeted.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
No Telegraph or Mail representatives on board of funding body for new IPSO press regulator — The directors have been named for a body which will hold the purse strings and help decide appointments to new press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon to pay HBO more than $300M over three years in streaming deal — HBO's Amazon Haul Is Big — But Not as Big as You Might Think — How much is Amazon paying to get its hands on HBO's old shows? — A lot! But less than some people might have thought.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Amazon Makes a Big Move, Snags Older HBO Shows for Web Streaming
Amazon Makes a Big Move, Snags Older HBO Shows for Web Streaming
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Daniel Denvir / Philadelphia City Paper:
What does the fight over Philly.com mean for the future of Philly journalism? — “Two writers say stuffed Bigfoot is legit” and “I've never had sex with my husband” are the sort of headlines on Philly.com that fill Philadelphia Inquirer reporters with dread and despair.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
In Ukraine, another journalist missing, newsroom destroyed — Three local and international journalists are missing or being held hostage in eastern Ukraine, while unidentified assailants burned down the offices of a newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ukrainian authorities …
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