Mediagazer: Simon Ostrovsky Has Been Released (Vice)

5:05 PM ET, April 24, 2014

Top News:

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 …

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?

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

The FCC doesn't want to destroy net neutrality, but it's going to anyway — The Federal Communications Commission doesn't want companies like Netflix or Viacom to have to pay to get their content to end users of broadband networks, but it doesn't see a way (or maybe even a reason) to ban the practice.

Discussion: @acedtect, Business Insider, Mashable, TechPresident and The Verge

Sam Gustin / TIME:
Net Neutrality Advocates Angered by FCC's Planned New Rules

Discussion: Free Press Blog, Free Press, The Wrap, Poynter, Guardian, The Week, @billmcgev, @digiphile, @pmarca, Talking Biz News, @samgustin and @digiphile

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 …

Discussion: Capital New York, Mediaite, AdExchanger and Digiday

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Bloomberg, @orskov, @edmundlee, @pkafka and The Huffington Post

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
New York Times Reports First Ad Revenue Increase In Three Years

Discussion: @printinthemix and @jmcduling

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Poynter, Gawker, Variety, New York Magazine, @simonostrovsky, The Huffington Post, Politico, Guardian, Latest News & Headlines, Capital New York, Talking Points Memo, Mashable, The Week and Globe and Mail

Committee to Protect Journalists:
In Ukraine, another journalist missing, newsroom destroyed

Discussion: @bishopk, Poynter, Reporters Without Borders, kyivpost.com, @nycjim, Guardian, @michaeldweiss and TIME

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.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @albertocairo, @smfrogers and @newswhip

Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Publishers Can Afford Data Journalism, Says ProPublica's Scott Klein

Discussion: @beckybowers, @macloo and @towcenter

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.

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @pkafka, @danprimack, @sherman4949 and Capital New York

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.

Discussion: @jmikelyons and @jasonnark

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.

Discussion: @juliamkern, @charlesornstein, @niemanlab, College Media Matters, @jimmyvielkind, @miriamkrule and New York Magazine

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 …

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.

Discussion: Lost Remote and Home Media Magazine

Soham Chatterjee / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable profit rises 19.5 pct

Discussion: Reuters, Hollywood Reporter and Wall Street Journal

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 …

Discussion: Guardian and @adambienkov

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 …

Discussion: The Wrap, Tubefilter, Globe and Mail and FierceOnlineVideo News

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 …

Bill Cromwell / Media Life:

Americans spent 43.4 percent of media time online — It's finally happened. Last year Americans spent more time with digital media than any other medium, for the first time ever. A new report from eMarketer finds that U.S. adults spent 43.4 percent of their major media time with digital devices in 2013 …

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Meredith Corp to End Regular Monthly Publication Of Ladies' Home Journal — One of Nation's Oldest Magazines Is Victim of Declining Ad Revenue — Meredith Corp.'s “Ladies' Home Journal,” one of the country's oldest women's magazines, will end regular monthly publication this July, the victim of declining ad revenue.

Discussion: AdAge, Folio, Guardian, Capital New York, Crain's New York, FishbowlNY, Adweek, Bloomberg and The Week

Ken Florance / Netflix US & Canada Blog:

Netflix cites control over access to customers over last mile in opposing Comcast-TWC merger — The Case Against ISP Tolls — As the person at Netflix responsible for content delivery, I spend a lot of time thinking about Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its interconnection with ISPs.

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Pandora reports Q1 loss, guidance hits sour note again — The Internet's biggest radio service reported a better-than-predicted loss in the first quarter, but guidance — damped by investments in its advertising abilities — stoked investors to sell. — The NYSE when Pandora went public

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Pandora

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon Beats Street In Q1 With Net Sales Up 23% To $19.74B, $0.23 EPS — Amazon today reported its results for the company's first financial quarter of 2014. Amazon reported net sales up 23 percent to $19.74 billion compared to $25.59 billion last quarter and $16.07 billion in the year-ago quarter.

Discussion: Gigaom, Amazon.com and BuzzFeed

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Why America Is Looking to UK for Help Fighting Piracy — Politicians, film studios and record labels have a new reason for hope in their floundering fight against piracy: England. — Mike Weatherley, a top advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, spent the last week pitching …