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Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog:
FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …
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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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Gawker, The Awl, @newyorker, Light Reading, New York Magazine, The Verge, Softpedia News, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Gigaom, TheHill and ZDNet
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
FCC chairman says reports of net neutrality's death are ‘flat out wrong’
FCC chairman says reports of net neutrality's death are ‘flat out wrong’
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@kwerb, @rsingel, The Week, @ammori, @om, TechCrunch and Joho the Blog
Sam Gustin / TIME:
Net Neutrality Advocates Angered by FCC's Planned New Rules
Net Neutrality Advocates Angered by FCC's Planned New Rules
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Poynter, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, @digiphile, @pmarca, @billmcgev, Talking Biz News, @samgustin and @digiphile
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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New York Times, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Columbia Journalism Review, @orskov, @pkafka, @edmundlee and The Huffington Post
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
NYT Up To Nearly 800K Paid Digital Subscribers, Plans New Food And Opinion Apps — The New York Times is crowing about a quarterly rise in revenue today, and that comes thanks to increases in both print and digital ad revenue. Digital subscriptions saw some of its strongest growth in recent memory …
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Capital New York, Mediaite and AdExchanger
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Reports First Ad Revenue Increase In Three Years
New York Times Reports First Ad Revenue Increase In Three Years
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@jmcduling
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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@dylanbyers, Capital New York, The Wrap, @deilemberg, @isaacleep, @dkthomp, @moorehn, @jledbetter and @felixsalmon
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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
Felix Salmon's reasons for leaving Reuters and the limitations of page-based media
Felix Salmon / Medium:
Salmon: Fusion offers chance to experiment with digital storytelling wherever audience may be
Salmon: Fusion offers chance to experiment with digital storytelling wherever audience may be
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@sathnam, @mathewi, @bridgetwi, @froomkin, @dlboardman, @nytfridge, @mckaycoppins, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @felixsalmon, Gigaom, @heerjeet, @gaberivera, @espiers and @lpolgreen
Simon Rogers / Mother Jones:
Hey Wonk Reporters, Liberate Your Data! — When it comes to data journalism, everyone's a critic. — The launch of three major data journalism operations in only a few weeks—the revamped 538, Vox, and the New York Times' The Upshot—have produced a slew of opinion pieces.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @albertocairo and @smfrogers
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Andy Mitchell / Facebook:
Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire, a news feed for journalists on Facebook and Twitter — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.
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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@jimmyvielkind, @miriamkrule, College Media Matters and New York Magazine
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.
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@jasonnark and @jmikelyons
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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Capital New York, @sherman4949 and @pkafka
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Cable Spent $62 Million in Q1 Prepping for Comcast Merger — Time Warner Cable incurred $62 million in costs for the first three months of 2014 to lay the groundwork for Comcast's $45 billion acquisition bid, which is pending regulatory approval.
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Lost Remote and Home Media Magazine
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Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable profit rises 19.5 pct
Time Warner Cable profit rises 19.5 pct
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Hollywood Reporter, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Telegraph ‘encouraged’ by performance of online paywall one year on — Just over a year after the Telegraph became the first mainstream UK national newspaper website to go behind a metered paywall insiders say they are “encouraged” by the way it has gone. — The Telegraph has declined …
Neil Midgley / Forbes:
London Live's Disastrous TV Ratings: 2,400 Watch Breakfast Show In City Of 9million — Last month, I wrote for Forbes.com about the imminent arrival in London of a media first - a local TV channel devoted solely to the UK's capital city. I'd already been behind the scenes at the channel …
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Guardian and @adambienkov
Steve Dollar / Wall Street Journal:
Tribeca Film Festival Is Showing Online-Only Productions for First Time — Works Range From Documentaries to Comedies — Not every work spotlighted at the Tribeca Film Festival plays in a theater. — For the first time this year, the festival features online-only productions …
Vice:
Simon Ostrovsky Has Been Released — VICE News is delighted to confirm that our colleague and friend Simon Ostrovsky has been safely released and is in good health. We would like to thank everyone for their support during this difficult time. Out of respect for Simon and his family's privacy …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
FremantleMedia Claims Rights to YouTube User-Uploaded Clips — FremantleMedia is turning thousands of fan-uploaded YouTube clips of “American Idol” — and dozens of other shows it produces — into cash. — In a partnership pairing two corporate cousins, TV production firm FremantleMedia …
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The Wrap, Globe and Mail and Tubefilter