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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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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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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
The FCC doesn't want to destroy net neutrality, but it's going to anyway
The FCC doesn't want to destroy net neutrality, but it's going to anyway
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Variety, Ars Technica, @acedtect, VentureBeat, Mashable, TechPresident, Business Insider, Kirk LaPointe's …, The Verge and Re/code
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Comcast Says Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Streams — A couple days after Netflix and Comcast fought in public, the two companies, who are supposed to be partners, are at it again. — Three days after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings publicly opposed Comcast's planned acquisition of/merger with Time Warner Cable …
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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.
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Jennifer Khoury / Comcast Voices Blog:
Comcast: Neflix degraded its Comcast streams, seeks to shift its costs onto all Internet users
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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TheHill, Lost Remote, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and Home Media Magazine
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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The New York Times Company:
NYT reports 2.6% increase in revenue, digital advertising revenue up 2.2% to $37.8M
NYT reports 2.6% increase in revenue, digital advertising revenue up 2.2% to $37.8M
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New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, Bloomberg, @edmundlee, @pkafka, @orskov and The Huffington Post
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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AdExchanger, @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 …
Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
Russia Orders Bloggers To ‘Register’; Outlaws Anonymous Blogging, Continues Clampdown On Social Media — As we've reported, Russia has been steadily trying to bring the Internet under control with ever-more stringent measures. After tackling general Web sites through powers that allow …
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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, @newswhip, @jayrosen_nyu, @albertocairo and @smfrogers
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Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Publishers Can Afford Data Journalism, Says ProPublica's Scott Klein
Publishers Can Afford Data Journalism, Says ProPublica's Scott Klein
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@beckybowers, @towcenter and @macloo
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Aftermath of Ukraine Photo Story Shows Need for More Caution — The Times led its print edition Monday with an article based in part on photographs that the State Department said were evidence of Russian military presence in popular uprisings in Ukraine. The headline read: “Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia.”
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Mediaite, Consortiumnews.com, @jayrosen_nyu and Pressing Issues
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.
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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 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT — WordPress maker Automattic's acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that had developed a platform …
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VentureBeat, @kraykray and @codybrown
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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FishbowlNY, @pkafka, Capital New York, @danprimack and @sherman4949
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo ‘Complying’ With Copyright Law As The Company ‘Circumventing’ Copyright Law? — We mentioned this briefly in our writeup of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Aereo case, but I wanted to focus in on one particularly annoying issue that has come …
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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.
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@jasonnark and @jmikelyons
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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@niemanlab, @juliamkern, College Media Matters, @charlesornstein, @jimmyvielkind, @miriamkrule and New York Magazine
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.
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Amazon.com, Forbes, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed and Pocket-lint
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Hulu adds Chromecast-like mobile remote control features to Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 — Hulu is the latest company to go all-out on Chromecast-like multiscreen features: Hulu Plus subscribers can now access the video service through their Android and iOS devices on Microsoft's Xbox One as well as Sony's PS3 and PS4.
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Hulu Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET and TechCrunch
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, FierceOnlineVideo News, Tubefilter and Globe and Mail