Mediagazer: Raleigh News & Observer reporter's investigations of scandals at UNC spark reform and outrage (Sarah Lyall/New York Times)

5:00 PM ET, April 27, 2014

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Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society:

The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. — Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[r]egulators are proposing new rules …

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Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:

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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:

Raleigh News & Observer reporter's investigations of scandals at UNC spark reform and outrage — University of North Carolina Is at Odds With a Raleigh Newspaper — RALEIGH, N.C. — There have been violent threats, angry screeds, Twitter flame campaigns and an entire website predicated …

Discussion: @sarahlyall, @coreyhutchins and @davidfolkenflik

Michael Cavna / Washington Post:

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Economist:

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Justice Department urges Supreme Court to pass up James Risen's case on confidential sources — Justice Department urges SCOTUS to pass up reporter's privilege case — The Obama Administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up New York Times reporter James Risen's plea …

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Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:

State Dept Launches ‘Free the Press’ Campaign While DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Force Reporter James Risen Into Jail — The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual “Free the Press” campaign today, which will purportedly highlight “journalists or media outlets that are censored …

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Wall Street Journal:

Omnicom, Publicis Merger Threatened by Power Struggle — Ad Company Executives Said to Disagree on Future Roles, Who Is the Buyer — Personal battles over position and power are upending the slated $35 billion “merger of equals” between advertising firms Omnicom Group Inc. and Publicis Groupe SA.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Ladies' Home Journal tries to survive as a digital brand — Print is struggling. That truth holds even more so if you're a women's service magazine, and still more if you serve the older end of the market and have relevancy issues. And so it is that Meredith Corp. said today …

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Capital New York:

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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

DOJ reopens review of deal between Digital First Media's Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News — A newspaper deal threatens Utah's main non-Mormon-owned daily, critics say — And the Justice Department is looking into it — A deal reached last fall between Salt Lake City's two main newspapers …

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Samantha Shankman / Skift:

The Boutique Publishers Crafting Content for Big Travel Brands — Fathom Away creates stylish city guides for Kate Spade. / Kate Spade — Where do brands turn when they need creative custom content that speaks to a specific set of travelers? — The answer is often large creative agencies …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Newspapers still lag in digital advertising, highest growth areas remain mobile, video, search — The newsonomics of newspapers' slipping digital performance — As we approach the middle of the 2010s, where do newspapers fit in the battle for America's largest ad sector — digital?

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