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The Atlantic Online:
Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea — This week, news broke that the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules for how the Internet works. — In short: the FCC would allow network owners (your Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet …
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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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@kwerb, Gawker and EdCone.com
Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:
As “open internet” is threatened, policymakers could consider solutions like public spectrum
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VICE, Network World, Boing Boing and Washington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
Cable providers cling to bundled TV channels as viewing habits evolve — New Challenges Chip Away at Cable's Pillar of Profit — For decades, cable television has been an almost magical source of profits, in large part because of the bundle, the packaging of channels that compels subscribers …
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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 …
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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
41 years later, The Post publishes spiked ‘Doonesbury’ Watergate comic for the first time. Here's why... THIS WEEK, The Washington Post ran, for the first time, a comics-page strip in which a character declared former Nixon attorney general John Mitchell guilty for Watergate crimes.
Economist:
In Pakistan, being a journalist becomes increasingly lethal — Journalism in Pakistan: The silencing of the liberals — UK Only Article: standard article Issue: A billion shades of grey Fly Title: Journalism in Pakistan Rubric: The shooting of a famous journalist exposes a worrying trend Location …
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New York Times, @razarumi, @dhume, @benazir_shah and Columbia Journalism Review
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Ad Buyers Slowly Taking Digital NewFronts More Seriously — Agencies Bring Digital Players in For Early Development Meetings, Just Like TV — Creativity Top 5 — Digital platforms are aggressively seeking TV dollars again in this year's NewFronts presentations, which kick off on Monday.
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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Kenneth Olmstead / Pew Research Center:
As digital ad sales grow, news outlets get a smaller share — Digital advertising in the U.S. accounted for $42.6 billion in revenue in 2013, an increase of 16% over 2012, according to the financial analysis firm eMarketer. But while that digital ad pie is growing, the numbers show …
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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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