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7:25 AM ET, April 24, 2014

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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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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 …
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.
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 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.com:
Amazon and HBO Ink Exclusive Multi-Year Deal to Bring Award-Winning HBO Programming to Prime Members
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Sara Morrison / Poynter:
Emma Gilbey Keller has resigned from The Guardian  —  Several months after her controversial column was removed from its website, Emma Gilbey Keller has formally resigned from The Guardian.  —  “I haven't written for The Guardian by my own choice since they took my column down in January …
National Union of Journalists:
Stronger laws needed to protect journalists' work  —  To mark World Copyright Day (23 April), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the National Union of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists have denounced unfair contractual clauses that deprive journalists and other creators of their authors' rights.
Tim Barribeau / PopPhoto.com:
Getty To Sell Prints Through New Photos.com Service  —  Famous Getty Images, mounted and framed for your walls  —  While Getty Images may now let you embed its images for free, the company has also now started offering a much more premium (and permanent) service, too.
Discussion: GeekWire and VentureBeat
 
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Mobile Devices Can Dramatically Improve Literacy Rates In Developing Countries, Says UNESCO
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Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
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Melissa Wiese / Sacramento Business Journal:
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Daniel Beekman / NY Daily News:
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